Year
2016
Population
24213622
Population, Rural
50.12
Population, Female
49.38
Working age population
54.29
Working age population, Male
6657039
Working age population, Female
6487530
Age dependency ratio
84.21
Labour force participation, Female
48.05
Labour force participation, Male
66.28
Employment in Agriculture
42.75
GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$)
2027.83
Real GDP growth (inflation-adjusted)
7.2
GDP at current market prices
48410
Inflation rate
0.7
Growth in broad money supply
5.18
External debt outstanding (% of GDP)
28.6
Current account balance (% of GDP)
-0.86
Fiscal balance (% of GDP)
-2.92
Unemployment rate
2.6
Remittances (% of GDP)
0.71
Gross enrolment ratio
70.25
Gross enrolment ratio, Male
76.63
Gross enrolment ratio, Female
63.87
Access to electricity
64.3
Access to electricity, Urban
92
Access to electricity, Rural
36.7
Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
1.21
Mobile phone ownership
43.65
ATMs per 100,000 adults
7.150257
ATMs
981
Handset affordability
45.62
Mobile connectivity index
37.39
Network coverage
64.9
Mobile Data Affordability
34.46
Mobile Cellular Subscribers per 100 inhabitants
115.23
Fixed -broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitant
0.58
Volume of mobile money transactions per 1000 adults
20302.44
Value of mobile money transactions (% of GDP)
17.16
Broad money (current LCU)
7 852 947 279 511
Consumer price index (2010 = 100)
112
Population ages 15 and above, female
6 762 323
Population ages 15 and above, male
6 957 464
Population ages 15 and above, total
13 719 787
Population, female (primary + secondary)
4585785
Population, male
12 257 085
Population, male (primary + secondary)
4694706
Population, youth (15-24)
4854027
Urban population
12 077 997
Unemployment rate, Youth
3.9
Labour force participation
57.37