Zambia vs Zimbabwe: Drinking water services in rural areas

Zambia
1.14 million people
in 2024
Zimbabwe
1.20 million people
in 2024
Zambia rank
22nd
Zimbabwe rank
21st

Drinking water services in rural areas over time

  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
0500.0k1.0M1.5M2.0M200020122024

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 1.20 million people against 1.14 million people in Zambia, a difference of 60,200 people.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.1 times Zambia's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Zambia ahead.

Zambia ranks 22nd and Zimbabwe ranks 21st of 178 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Drinking water services in rural areas
Unit
people
Source
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
178 places, 4,232 data points, 2000–2024
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Number of people using drinking water directly collected from surface waters.