ZamStats Releases April 2025 Statistical Highlights

ZamStats Releases latest Statistics for April 2025

The Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) disseminates its Monthly Bulletin on the last Thursday of every month. Accordingly, the April statistics bulletin was released at the Agency’s Head Office today 24^th April 2025. During the dissemination, the Acting Statistician General, Mrs. Sheila S. Mudenda, shared the latest updates on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and International Merchandise Trade.

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Mrs. Mudenda announced that Zambia’s annual inflation rate for April 2025 remained unchanged from March 2025 at 16.5 percent. This means that, on average, the prices of goods and services increased by 16.5 percent between April 2024 and April 2025 mainly due to price movements of non-food items.

Annual food inflation dropped slightly to 18.7 percent in April from 18.9 percent in March 2025. This decline was attributed to price movements in the prices of key food items such as cereals, fruits and vegetables.

In contrast, annual non-food inflation rose to 13.4 percent in April, up from 13.2 percent in March 2025. This increase was largely driven by price movements in price of non- food items such as purchase of motor vehicles and air passenger transport by air.

At the provincial level, Central Province continues to record the highest inflation rate at 18.8 percent, while Eastern Province reported the lowest at 12.2 percent.

International Trade Developments

In international trade, total trade rose by 10.2 percent, increasing from K50.3 billion in February 2025 to K55.5 billion in March 2025. Imports grew by 7.9 percent, from K25.4 billion in February to K27.5 billion in March. This growth was largely due to increases in: Capital goods (by 17.6%); Intermediate goods (by 5.8%);Raw materials (by 15.0%) and Consumer goods (by 2.1%).

Exports saw a 12.3 percent increase, rising from K24.9 billion in February 2025 to K27.9 billion in March 2025. This was attributed to increases in export earnings from: Intermediate goods (by 10.6%);Raw materials (by 33.1%);Consumer goods (by 11.9%); and Capital goods (by 25.0%).

Export earnings from refined copper increased by 14.1 percent, from K17.3 billion in February to K19.7 billion in March 2025. This was due to a 7.8 percent rise in export volumes of refined copper, from 66.0 thousand metric tonnes in February 2025 to 71.2 thousand metric tonnes in March 2025

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