Zambia is ranked fourth on the list of countries in Africa where fuel prices are high. This is according to information posted from a Travel Site by a blogger listing the list of fuel for 200 countries. According to the site travel site, Fuel prices differ considerably across countries. The prices of fuel in some of the petrol producing states are less than a few dollar/euro cents for the liter. In contrast, in some European countries, a liter of gas cost more than 2 dollars. Prices also change over time. However, price movements are similar across countries. They either increase or decrease everywhere.
The data is drawn from a variety of sources including official government materials, oil companies, online resources specializing in gas prices, and others. These sources provide reliable information about fuel prices in a large number of countries.
NOW CHI CHIMWILI KASHIMBA WAS SAYING FUEL IN UK AND UERO ZONE IS HIGHER THAN ZAMBIA. BUT HOW DARE HE COMPARE UK AND ZAMBIA.
A PETROL ATTENDANT IN UK GETS A LOT THAT IN ZAMBIA, CIVIL SERVANTS IN UK GET A VERY HIGH SALARY THAN IN ZAMBIA.
FOOLISH COMPARISON. EVEN UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN UK GET A HIGHER SALARY THAN EMPLOYED PEOPLE IN ZAMBIA. IN UK THEY HAVE HIGHER DISPOSABLE INCOME THAN ZAMBIA ON AVARAGE….. FOOLISH CHIMBWILI KASHIMBA.
And your dearest fuel is being sold to you by Kobil from Kenya and Engen from S.africa meaning they beat us in fuel prices then come to preside over us using our selfmade hangman’s noose and they get rewarded there too.Double jeopardy.
4th on th list yet poor, huge cabinet, Million by elections, bad Roads, Bad health facilities, no money in the pocket but want citizens to believe that the removal of fuel and maize subsidies is for the good of the poor????? HH is the man for 2016
Am shocked!! fuel is cheaper in DRC and zimbabwe… of alll places mwebantu zimbabwe cheaper fuel than zambia…crazy! insane,!!!
Maybe the other countries where fuel is expensive have something to show for it. As for us in Zambia this is just a sign of how deeply entrenched theft and dishonesty have become in govt and worse even, the extent to which we the ordinary citizens appear to have Approved and accepted it !!!
Who can say i will effect change in 90 days and it comes to pass?Hahaha Kekeke its good to laugh last Krazy where are you I would like to listen to your donchi kubeba track and see how the Kaponyas will dance on an empty stomach oh Krazy pls will you play the track hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There dancing to BUFI!!! when it comes to dancing, we never disappoint.
Norway is an oil producer but has the highest fuel price in the world!
The oil companies pay 78% tax on profits…but this is a fair country, the consumers are not spared either!
The Norwegian Sovereign wealth fund is the largest in the world, it has US$728 billion dollars and growing… for the future generations to spend. This is what you call planning…not this nonsense of eating, sleeping and shi*ting every day without a thought about the future!
Norway might have the highest fuel prices in the world but government and all companies there pay high salaries, the salary of a cleaner is Norway is more that what a doctor earns in Zambia-so paying that much for fuel is nothing to them. And they have the best social welfare in the world, free medical care and free education to university level.
How can DRC and ZIM have cheaper fuel than us? I think we are doomed with PF
stay in norway . In zambia mining companies pay the least taxes. Their electricity is highly subsidized. Shouldn’t pf be targeting these instead of poor zambians. Don’t use cyrogism.
@At Cassava Republic, the Norweigian scenario you’re Sharing with us is an important one for us to learn from, but you will appreciate that it is that govt’s good intention and transparency with which they handle this fund that makes its citizenry happy with their government. In our case it will just be business as usual – let’s demand to know how much this money is and where this money is going… Sounds like a 2016 election cash cow to me…
@Jorl iwe there is no free medical care here wilabepa.Your other points are true though.
@cassava
factor in evironmental concerns(evironmmental tax)! plus the idea of discouraging many people to drive their own cars so as to free the roads abit… then you will understand why fuel prices are higher in norway
@Mo taim i dont if you understand the Norwegian health system, i lived for 8 years…. you pay a minimal consultancy fee when you go to see the Dr, but after 6-8 visits per year, you dont pay anything, you get a free medical card. the government does not allow its citizen to pay beyond beyond 1800 Kroners on medical care.
We should find out why we are the most expensive in the region. The landlocked excuse doesnt Wash. Not With Malawi and Zim charging almost half. There is something politically fishy about this. And Im not just blaming the PF. This issue has been like this since the KK days.
Is this a surprise?!
Consider this:
1) Zambia is a non-oil-producing nation. Meaning she imports all her oil from somewhere far—and I mean far (NOT Angola)!
2) Zambia being a landlocked country, transporting that oil into Zambia costs a fortune.
3) The refining capacity at our only refinery (Indeni) is not as efficient as it ought to be, so there is always overheads processing petroleum in Zambia.
4) One refinery can barely meet demand. So the laws of supply and demand come into play.
4) How much fuel subsidies are countries like Zim paying? And you wonder why the Zim economy has tanked? Populist policies!
5) Monopolist oil market in Zambia is a big killer of competition, contributing to higher prices.
6) Extra!
So, let us analyze issues fairly and compare apples to…
Yambayamba, i totally agree with you. If anything, i have checked this site where this information id derived from. Besides the factors you have mentioned, the whole analysis is flawed. Can the authoir of this article substantiate that Zambia is number 4 in Africa. Just go the site and make your own analysis, it is difficult to make such conclusions because a number of African countries are missing on the chart and the data is based on what is collected. I am not saying that fuel is cheap in Zambia. It is expensive but the analysis is flawed and hence not worth to stand for discussion.
Check man, limping Zimbabwe is better than us?? What are you talking about?? Zambia is just too expensive we can do better.
Yambamba please stop your lies and shallow propaganda. Botswana, Niger, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Swaziland, Rwanda , Malawi etc are also landlocked and non oil producing countries. They all have cheaper oil products than Zambia. Zambians are just been exploited to feed the gluttony of Sata and his huge and incompetent bureaucracy!
@Goncalves, please tell me why fuel in the countries you have mentioned is cheap?Let us forget the “landlocked” part for a second, you tell me the factors that have made fuel cheaper in these countries? At least start there.
I can assure you, if you dig just below the ARTIFICIAL prices you see in these countries, what you find are huge oil subsidies politicians are probably afraid to f00l around with. Just like we behaved in Zambia all these years, UNIP through MMD era, pretending oil was cheap and they got us addicted to it like we live in Kuwait. At least this govt (PF) doesn’t want to pretend anymore!
By the way can you explain why fuel in Norway, a oil producing country, is more expensive than Zambia? Things aren’t that simple, so stop being so SIMPLISTIC in your analysis.
By the way Bwana “enlightened” Goncalves, Niger has oil (in the Niger delta) and produces quite a bit of it actually (some 2 million barrels (320,000 m3) a day!) So who is lying and giving “shallow propaganda” here, some one who doesn’t even know sh!t about the countries they are talking about or some one who simply gives “factors” to consider?!
What a “cheap wannabe intellectual” you are! Please don’t mistake unvarnished political “cadreism” (my word!) to being intelligent and well-informed, it is really dangerous. My, my, my!!
At least we are almost their we need to move from 4th to 1st then we can show the world that we can also be nambala wanu on some world ratings. South africa beats us on Aids, Ethopia beats us on Manutrition. Go zambia Go
Ethiopia beats us when it comes to beautiful women too.Lol
@Mo taim
Have you seen their airport in Adis?..can you compare it with your KK airstrip, Ethiopia has a better economic than zambia,,, their only problem is that they are not politically stable
The sama data you have provided here is what Sata used to during the campaigns for his presidency. He told us fuel in Zambia was too expensive than Malawi and promised it wud be cheaper. But now the story has changed. No wonder Petersen & Pilato’s song best suit him. Ni bozo, Bufi, wenye, lies, etc.
We should actually be happy.This is good considering that we are landlocked and have to pay taxes to Tanzania for using their country while importing our oil.Norway as you can see has higher fuel prices compared to Zambia despite the country being one of the highest producers of oil in the world.
nORWAY PAYS HIGHER SALARIES.TO U IT IS EXPENSIVE TO THEM IT IS CHEAP. BUT ZAMBIA VERY EXPENSIVE FUEL ON POOR SALARIES.
@Mpangula Mputyu, and who do you propose should pay higher salaries, the same brook Zambian govt which doesn’t even have money for by-elections?! In fact the same people that are now complaining about higher fuel and meali meal prices, and how Zambians can’t afford them, who bitterly resisted the raising of the minimum wage. All sorts of “dooms day” scenarios were prophesized, but nothing has happened. And now you are complaining about how lowly Zambians are paid? Talk about FIRST CLASS HYPOCRICY!!
By the way, what causes a commodity to be expensive or cheap? Answer this question fairly and honestly and you will understand why fuel is expensive in Zambia. Just looking at raw figures without taking into account all the contributing factors will mislead you!
@Yambayamba , Fuel is expensive in Zambia because half of the price is captured by government as tax. Indeni charged 30% on its imports of raw materials. OMC’s are charged 25% excise tax when they buy oil products from Indeni. Consumers are then slapped with all kinds of taxes like road levy, VAT etc when they fill up their tanks. All this money goes to pay Sata’s bureaucracy. 4 deputy Ministers in each ministry. 3 to 4 Permanent Secretaries in each Ministry. Foreign missions that have ballooned from 15 to 100 staff per embassy. Zambians are been milked dry to feed Sata’s sycophants.
Can sata explain himself since he claims he is doing a good job let him explain why we are paying more on fuel sata must admit he is a terrible uneducated man cant call him president because he hasnt done anything presidential but just be rude in all his failings its a shame
lets dwn on our knees b4 God 4 salvation b4 tatulatampa ukunya amenshi. trk ths msg seriously plz
This table is misleading, Africa has more than 45 countries, but how many African countries are in table? You can never make conclusions from half researched data, the African countries data has to be complete so that we can make comparisons easily. This mentality of always comparing what our neighbours are doing or eating should be avoided, we have to set standards ourselves to achieve what we want as a country. Luanda is considered the second most expensive city in the world, but I don’t hear Angolans going into streets to protest about the cost of living. Zambia is landlocked, pumping the oil from Tanzania cost money and this has to be added on to the price of fuel, so the cost is justifiable.
Djibouti is near Saudi Arabia the oil capital, but fuel cost is almost that of Zambia,…
MALAWI, the country we DONATED fuel to has cheaper fuel than us the donors. Are we being led by morons straight from Chainama or what?
BOTSWANA is just as landlocked but check only $1.12 compared to our $2. something must definitely be wrong.
DIESEL, 3rd most expensive in Africa and 16th most expensive in the 200 countries of the world according to that site.
Goes to show what happens when a country opts to have a crack-head as its CEO!
Hahaha,good for nothing zambia,having copper but being outdone by agri-economies,no airline,dirty capital city and now even basket cases like DRC & Zim have cheaper fuel.Even that expensive fuel is being sold to ya by Kenol/kobil from Kenya and Engen from S.A with no homegrown zambian petroleum company whatsoever.Hopeless country.
I think looking at one issue is really misleading. I have been at the site several times looking at its data. Things to note:
1. Exchange rate is not updated and mostly fictional – please verify since you know the prices and rates everyday yourself.
2. If you compare with countries, why not compare a lot more so your analysis is not misleading for your purpose. e.g. use complete analysis and make informed contributions (mytravelcost.com/Zambia/compare-price-countries/). See how Zambia compares before talking about it here and posting insults at an intellectual debate
Petroleum products, Petrol and diesel are more expensive in Zambia than in other land locked countries like Malawi, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Botwana because of our high Taxes on fuel. Our tax on petrol is 85% and diesel is 80%. No one has such high taxes on fuel in the region than Zambia. So the culprit here is not the ‘land locked’ nonsense, it is Government!!
Goncaves, you are a liar fuel in Malawi is not any cheaper than in Zambia.It is about the same not more.Was there it was about KR 10.20 per liter. Travel and you will appreciate some of these things than getting holed up in the diaspora.Check Tanzania and Kenya it is about KR 8.30 but these countries have ports and how do you explain that. You cant compare zambia to Zimbabwe where we governement just hanging on without real power.As result they are bound to introduce populist policies meant to appease the poor masses.The only thing we have to do is to identify supply chain bottle necks and strive to resolve them including high import tax, like excise duty which should be elimited at importations. Imagine Customs duty (25%), EXcise duty (25%) and VAT(16%) including fuel levy.