Capture fisheries production in Zambia

Capture fisheries in Zambia landed 122,963 tonnes in 2024.

Measure: Capture fisheries production Unit: Metric tonnes Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Zambia, 2024 122,963 Metric tonnes
Change from 2023 +3.8% 2023: 118,426 tonnes
World, 2024 94,403,126 tonnes Official aggregate
Position in 2024 75th of 215 See the full ranking

Capture fisheries production in Zambia over time

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Metric tonnes. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Capture fisheries production (metric tonnes), 2000 to 2024
Period ZambiaWorld
2024 122,963 tonnes 94,403,126 tonnes
2023 118,426 tonnes 92,981,262 tonnes
2022 117,695 tonnes 93,221,970 tonnes
2021 118,240 tonnes 93,590,253 tonnes
2020 129,603 tonnes 91,609,572 tonnes
2019 124,982 tonnes 94,910,375 tonnes
2018 107,451 tonnes 98,740,431 tonnes
2017 132,889 tonnes 95,664,397 tonnes
2016 204,349 tonnes 92,195,579 tonnes
2015 133,990 tonnes 94,357,557 tonnes
2014 131,459 tonnes 93,466,633 tonnes
2013 133,155 tonnes 93,116,007 tonnes
2012 102,969 tonnes 91,395,933 tonnes
2011 113,016 tonnes 94,143,395 tonnes
2010 100,113 tonnes 89,688,933 tonnes
2009 128,371 tonnes 91,445,934 tonnes
2008 107,601 tonnes 92,325,811 tonnes
2007 110,847 tonnes 93,503,695 tonnes
2006 100,041 tonnes 93,672,351 tonnes
2005 94,238 tonnes 95,594,652 tonnes
2004 94,078 tonnes 95,878,960 tonnes
2003 94,351 tonnes 91,084,188 tonnes
2002 85,259 tonnes 93,786,009 tonnes
2001 83,900 tonnes 93,409,856 tonnes
2000 86,411 tonnes 96,170,993 tonnes

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +3.8% from 118,426 tonnes in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 131,459 tonnes, the figure has changed by −6.5%.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Zambia has the 75th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 94,403,126 tonnes.

Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.FSH.CAPT.MT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for Zambia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)