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Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Zimbabwe economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. Rankings of Zimbabwe best banks and safest banks are also available.
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is one of Africa’s last old-school dictators. But he’s proving that he may be able to change—for the better. In the decade ending in 2008, Zimbabwe’s economy shrank at an annual rate of 6.1%. Then, in 2009, the country adopted the US dollar. Since then, growth has averaged nearly 8% per year...
USD 0.09 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| -3.4% | -16.3% | 7.4% | 19.7% | 14.2% | 16.7% | 2% |
| 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* | 2018* | ||
| 2.4% | 1.8% | 0.7% | 4.7% | 3.4% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
| N/A | N/A | 0.05% | 0.02% | 0.03% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| -2.4% | -1.6% | 0.9% | 10.6% | 161.8% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
| 41.8% | 54.2% | 54.9% | 37.1% | 17.7% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
| -1.4% | -6.2% | -8.1% | -4.5% | -2.7% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-4.9 % (2018 estimate)
22.9% (2018)
0.02% (2018)
0.008% (2018)
Platinum, cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing
Machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals, fuels, food products
South Africa 50.3%, Mozambique 22.5%, UAE 9.8%, Zambia 4.9% (2017)
South Africa 47.8%, Zambia 20.5% (2017)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 372 million | USD 349 million | USD 745 million |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 29 million | USD 42 million | USD 27 million |
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | USD -5.7 million | USD 0.4 million |
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking:
140 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 167 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 140 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 167 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 109 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 67 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 97 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 146 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 159 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 169 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 142 out of 190 countries
127 out of 141 countries
(2019)
Ranking: 175 / Score: 40.4 (Repressed)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Shona (official; most widely spoken), Ndebele (official, second most widely spoken), English (official; traditionally used for official business), 13 minority languages (official; includes Chewa, Chibarwe, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Shangani, sign lan
Protestant 74.8% (includes Apostolic 37.5%, Pentecostal 21.8%, other 15.5%), Roman Catholic 7.3%, other Christian 5.3%, traditional 1.5%, Muslim 0.5%, other 0.1%, none 10.5%(2015 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015* | 2020* |
| 9.79 million | 11.69 million | 12.34 million | 14.01 million | 15.19 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
| 12.6% | 22.4% | 33.8% | 32.2% |
Total population: 86.5%
Male: 88.5%
Female: 84.6%
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write english (2015 est.)
47.2% (last available estimate, 2011)
43.2 (last available estimate, 2011)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Partly Free
Political Rights: 5
Civil Liberties: 5 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 1.9%
Mobile: 89.4%
(2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)