“…The petroleum imports rose from around US$197 Million in 1980 to US$2.07 Billion in 2019 (COMSTAT, 2020). Additionally, however, other general macroeconomic variables, as determined in the study, equally continued to rise in the Zambian case with Government Expenditures rising from US$514.8 Million to US$2.5 Billion, GDP rising from US$4.3 to US$27.2 Billion, Gross Capital Formation rising from US$443.3 Million to US$ 9.7 Billion, Exports rising from US$ 942 Million to US$10.2 Billion, Non-Petroleum Imports rising from US$746.4 Million to Proceedings of the First Australian International Conference on Industrial Engineering andOperations Management, Sydney, Australia, December 20-21, 2022 Hasanli &Ismayilo (2018) using Log linear data applied OLS, and concluded that a rise in oil prices results into the growth of the world national debt, where they found that a 1% growth in oil prices increased the volume of foreign debt to World GDP by 3.17. But they fell short of isolating any particular country.…”