Protecting investors, director liability index in Zambia
Zambia: Protecting investors, director liability index was 6 in 2012. ▬ Flat
Protecting investors, director liability index in Zambia, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
Zambia recorded 6 for protecting investors, director liability index in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Zambia ranks 10th of 51 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 2010s | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
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More private sector data for Zambia
- Merchandise trade 91.7% (2025)
- Food imports 7.8% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 64.4% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 13.17 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 8.7% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 14.1% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 13.31 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 607.56 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.461 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 18.07 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is protecting investors, director liability index in Zambia?
- Protecting investors, director liability index in Zambia was 6 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Zambia?
- The highest recorded value was 6 in 2005.
- What is the lowest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Zambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 6 in 2005.
- How does Zambia rank for protecting investors, director liability index?
- Zambia ranks 10th out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is protecting investors, director liability index rising or falling in Zambia?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Zambia data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Protecting investors, director liability index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Director liability index measures a plaintiff’s ability to hold directors of firms liable for damages to the company, that is, measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors’ misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. The indicators distinguish 3 dimensions of investor protection: transparency of transactions (extent of disclosure index), liability for self-dealing (extent of director liability index) and shareholders’ ability to sue officers and directors for misconduct (ease of shareholder suits index). The data come from a survey of corporate lawyers and are based on company laws, court rules of evidence and securities regulations. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.