44% of Zambia’s population is concentrated in urban areas along major transport corridors making Zambia one of the most highly urbanized countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Sadly, unemployment in urban areas is rife and rural Zambians are only subsistence farmers. The population consists of around 72 ethnic groups, most of which are Bantu-speaking. 90% of Zambians belong to the primary nine ethnolinguistic groups which are: the Bemba, Kaonde, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nkoya, Nyanja-Chewa, and Tonga. All the ethnic groups can be found in the Copperbelt and in Lusaka.
Another group to be found in Zambia is the expatriate group who are mostly British or South African in addition to white Zambians. Expatriates mainly live in Lusaka and in the Copperbelt where they are usually employed in financial activities, in mines, or are retried. In 1964 there were 70,000 Europeans in Zambia but after independence was given to the country, many of them subsequently left. If there were 10 gu10 led lamps for each expatriate citizen in Zambia, I wonder how many there would be?
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