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 0.4 billion (2015)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2017
USD 14.6 billion (2017, estimate)
Intl$ 28.2 billion (2017, estimate)
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| -3.6% | -3.4% | -16.6% | 7.5% | 11.4% | 11.9% | 10.6% |
| 2013 | 2014* | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* | ||
| 4.5% | 2.3% | 2.3% | -0.3% | -2.5% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017* |
| N/A | N/A | 0.05% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| 1.6% | -0.2% | -2.4% | -1.6% | 4.6% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| 54.6% | 55.3% | 58.9% | 58.9% | 57.6% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| -1.9% | -1.5% | -1.1% | -4.9% | -3.1% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-6.1% (2017 estimate)
25.9% (2015)
0.02% (2015)
0.008% (2012)
Platinum, cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing
Machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals, fuels, food products
China 27.8%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 14%, Botswana 12.5%, South Africa 7.6% (2015)
South Africa 48.1%, China 12.1%, India 5.2%, Zambia 4.6% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 400 million | USD 545 million | USD 421 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 27 million | USD 72 million | USD 22 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | USD 1.2 million | N/A |
N/A
(for a monthly update on M&A; click here )
N/A
(for a monthly update on M&A; click here )
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: 161 out of 190 countries (2017)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 183 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 165 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 111 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 82 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 102 out of 190 countries
Trading Across Borders: 148 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 164 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 181 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 165 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 145 out of 190 countries
126 out of 138 countries
(2016-2017)
Ranking: 175 / Score: 38.23 (Repressed) (2016)
(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 language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, and Xhosa)
Protestant 75.9% (includes Apostolic 38%, Pentecostal 21.1%, other 16.8%), Roman Catholic 8.4%, other Christian 8.4%, other 1.2% (includes traditional, Muslim), none 6.1% (2011 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| 9.786 million | 11.693 million | 12.34 million | 14.501 million | 16.481 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 13% | 22% | 34% | 32% |
Total population: 86.5%
Male: 88.5%
Female: 84.6% (2015 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write English)
16.3% (2011)
43.2 (2011)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 5
Civil Liberties: 5 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 2.22% Mobile 84.79% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)