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In 2022, 64.3% of the population lived on less than US$2.15 per day, alongside a high Gini index (51.5). Extreme poverty is entrenched and overlapping deprivations affect children, with persistent chronic malnutrition and elevated stunting. Vulnerability is largely structural, linked to underinvestment in services and infrastructure, reflected in deprivation across electricity, water, sanitation, and education outcomes.","Public Disc losure Authorized  \nZAMBIA  \nPOVERTY  \nAND EQUITY ASSESSMENT EXECUTIVE  \nSUMMARY Scan for full report  \nPub lic Disc losure Authorized  \nWhere we are  \n1. Zambia is simultaneously amongst the poorest and the most unequal countries in the world. In 2022, 64.3 percent of the population—about 12.6 million individuals—was living on less than US$2 .15 a day.1 This level is not only the 6th highest in the world but it is also misaligned with the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita level. In four of the five poorer countries, GDP per capita is between one-quarter and one-half of Zambia’s GDP per capita. The remaining country is South Sudan, which is immersed in a protracted fragility and conflict situation.2 At the sametime, consumption inequality is high, even when compared with the sub-group of highly unequal resource-rich countries. In 2022, the Gini index stood at 51 .5—significantly above the World Bank’s newly adopted high-inequality threshold of 40. This places Zambia as the country with the 4th highest inequality in the region and the 6th highest globally. Resource-rich countries with similar or higher inequality have substantially lower poverty levels.  \nSource: Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) .  \nNotes: Resource-rich countries as defined in WB2024d. Other SSA countries are marked in grey.  \n1 International poverty rate calculated with the official consumption aggregate (ZamStats, 2022) . Due to changes in questionnaire design relative to 2015, the official 2022 estimates are based on a SWIFT model, drawing on a large subset of comparable variables across the two surveys. For more details, see Box 1.  \n2 Ranking restricted to countries with data on or after 2015. The countries with a higher poverty rate include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, South Sudan, and Central African Republic. The countries with higher inequality include Namibia, Eswatini, and Botswana in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Colombian and Brazil in Latin America and the Caribbean.  \nZambia Poverty and Equity Assessment-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \n\n|  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 |  |  |\n\n2. Poverty is becoming more entrenched over time. Extreme poverty—measured by the share of households whose consumption is lower than the food poverty line—accounted for 77 percent of the poor in 2022, up from 71 percent in 2010.3 Atthe sametime, the incidence of overlapping deprivationsis rising. In 2022, as many as 7 in 10 children suffer from at least two overlapping deprivations (multidimensionally poor), and 3 in 10 experienced at least four overlapping deprivations (extreme multidimensionally poor) .4 These rates are 4 and 3.5 percentage points higher than in 2015, respectively. Chronic malnutrition remains at unacceptably high levels, and indicative evidence suggests that it has increased in the recent past.5 The under-five stunting rate—at 35 percent—is significantly above the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Lower Middle-Income (LMI) averages.6  \n3. Vulnerability to poverty is prevalent and largely driven by structural factors.7 In 2015, 3 in  \n5 individuals were expected to be poor in the following two years. Just over 80 percent of the vulnerability is structural—i.e., households expected to be poor because their low endowments place them in a low-consumption trajectory. The remaining 20 percent is risk-driven—i.e., households likely to be poor because they are expected to face a negative shock they cannot cope with. High structural vulnerability is consistent with the country’s substantial underinvestment in services and infrastructure. Based on the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure, in 2022 Zambia held the 11th highest deprivation rate in access to electricity, 14thin access to drinking water, and 24th in access to sanitation. Its performance is also poor in human capital dimensions (16th highest in education enrolment deprivation and 24th in education attainment deprivation) .  \nHow we got here  \n4. 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