Country Report Zambia May 2011

Data and charts: Monthly data

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Exchange rate ZK:US$ (av)
2008	3,793	3,753	3,666	3,517	3,399	3,250	3,393	3,453	3,540	4,044	4,257	4,883
2009	5,017	5,407	5,585	5,663	5,186	5,074	5,134	4,832	4,655	4,660	4,657	4,682
2010	4,514	4,670	4,696	4,674	4,966	5,117	5,017	4,915	4,871	4,693	4,698	4,736
Deposit rate (end-period; %)
2008	6.3	6.4	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6
2009	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.9	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4
2010	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4
Lending rate (av; %)
2008	18.4	18.3	18.2	18.2	18.2	18.5	18.6	18.6	19.7	20.6	20.6	20.9
2009	20.9	20.9	20.9	20.7	21.6	22.4	22.4	23.0	23.1	23.1	23.1	22.7
2010	22.7	22.6	22.6	21.5	21.3	21.0	20.6	20.1	19.8	19.7	19.6	19.4
M1 (% change, year on year)
2008	20.7	26.5	28.0	28.4	40.9	40.0	36.2	34.0	39.2	49.5	34.8	30.2
2009	25.0	24.2	18.5	17.3	5.8	6.1	7.2	12.7	7.0	0.5	7.8	-0.4
2010	10.7	18.1	24.6	26.1	37.7	67.7	39.9	33.9	31.3	26.5	33.4	40.6
M2 (% change, year on year)
2008	32.7	33.3	32.7	30.6	28.0	27.7	25.1	22.0	18.7	38.2	29.6	23.2
2009	20.3	26.7	26.1	27.6	17.4	21.2	17.1	17.6	20.0	8.5	10.3	7.6
2010	7.3	9.0	11.5	16.2	23.4	25.6	28.2	27.6	32.2	24.0	29.3	30.6
Stockmarket index
2008	3,965	4,313	4,440	4,000	4,062	3,915	3,901	3,684	3,621	3,345	2,797	2,506
2009	2,420	2,382	2,183	2,143	2,498	2,745	2,834	2,619	2,807	2,669	2,658	2,795
2010	2,639	2,628	2,888	2,908	2,824	3,018	2,934	2,912	3,118	3,124	3303	3304
Consumer prices (av; % change, year on year)
2008	9.3	9.5	9.8	10.1	10.9	12.1	12.7	13.2	14.2	15.2	15.3	16.6
2009	16.0	14.0	13.1	14.3	14.7	14.4	14.0	14.3	13.0	12.3	11.5	9.9
2010	9.6	9.8	10.2	9.2	9.1	7.8	8.4	8.2	7.7	7.3	11.1	11.0
Total exports fob (US$ m)
2008	680.7	296.8	282.0	235.2	1036.3	219.6	455.0	476.4	380.5	364.4	154.3	509.4
2009	100.1	152.6	412.4	384.6	327.0	196.5	706.7	232.0	400.0	534.6	524.5	326.5
2010	544.9	312.4	811.0	660.7	565.6	474.6	525.7	592.2	557.5	593.2	486.1	n/a
Total imports cif (US$ m)
2008	292.9	335.4	381.2	450.7	461.8	446.1	501.3	615.9	504.8	413.0	344.1	349.8
2009	249.2	254.3	251.3	301.4	291.3	314.3	332.7	300.2	333.4	388.8	399.7	359.7
2010	419.7	411.7	409.7	442.1	437.1	395.8	436.6	450.2	460.5	719.0	436.3	n/a
Trade balance fob-cif (US$ m)
2008	387.8	-38.7	-99.2	-215.5	574.5	-226.6	-46.2	-139.5	-124.4	-48.6	-189.8	159.6
2009	-149.1	-101.7	161.0	83.2	35.7	-117.8	373.9	-68.2	66.6	145.8	124.8	-33.2
2010	125.2	-99.3	401.3	218.7	128.5	78.7	89.1	142.0	97.0	-125.8	49.8	n/a
Foreign-exchange reserves excl gold (US$ m)
2008	1,098	1,106	1,230	1,302	1,334	1,391	1,413	1,338	1,279	1,171	1,143	1,096
2009	1,050	904	952	932	1,118	1,154	1,182	1,701	1,757	1,787	1,852	1,892
2010	1,867	1,795	1,794	1,866	1,803	1,756	1,958	1,966	2,123	2,141	2,114	2,094
Sources: IMF, International Financial Statistics; Haver Analytics.

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