Zimbabwe/

The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems. Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. The government’s land reform program, characterized by chaos and violence, has badly damaged the commercial farming sector, the traditional source of exports and foreign exchange and the provider of 400,000 jobs, turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products. The EU and the US provide food aid on humanitarian grounds. Until early 2009, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe routinely printed money to fund the budget deficit, causing hyperinflation. The power-sharing government formed in February 2009 has led to some economic improvements, including the cessation of hyperinflation by eliminating the use of the Zimbabwe dollar and removing price controls. The economy is registering its first growth in a decade, but will be reliant on further political improvement for greater growth.

$4.395 billion (2010 est.)

$4.223 billion (2009 est.)

$4.279 billion (2008 est.)

$5.574 billion

4.1% (2010 est.)

-1.3% (2009 est.)

-14.4% (2008 est.)

$400 (2010 est.)

$400 (2009 est.)

$400 (2008 est.)

3.848 million (2010 est.)

95% (2009 est.)

80% (2005 est.)

68% (2004)

50.1 (2006)

50.1 (1995)

21% of GDP (2010 est.)

241.6% of GDP (2010 est.)

282.6% of GDP (2009 est.)

5.03% (2010 est.)

5.1% (2009 est.)

NA% (31 December 2009)

975% (31 December 2007)

NA% (31 December 2009 est.)

578.96% (31 December 2007)

$NA (31 December 2009 est.)

$2.151 million (31 December 2008 est)

$3.057 million (31 December 2009 est.)

$NA (31 December 2009 est.)

$1.186 million (31 December 2008 est.)

$60 (31 December 2009 est.)

$NA (31 December 2008)

$5.333 billion (31 December 2007)

$26.56 billion (31 December 2006)

corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; sheep, goats, pigs

mining (coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel; wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, clothing and footwear, foodstuffs, beverages

4% (2010 est.)

8.89 billion kWh (2007 est.)

10.89 billion kWh (2007 est.)

32 million kWh (2007 est.)

2.691 billion kWh (2007 est.)

0 bbl/day (2009 est.)

11,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

13,830 bbl/day (2007 est.)

0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.)

-$414.2 million (2010 est.)

-$807.5 million (2009 est.)

$1.869 billion (2010 est.)

$1.213 billion (2009 est.)

platinum, cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing

Democratic Republic of the Congo 14.82%, South Africa 13.39%, Botswana 13.23%, China 7.82%, Zambia 7.3%, Netherlands 5.39%, UK 4.93% (2009)

$2.871 billion (2010 est.)

$2.413 billion (2009 est.)

machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals, fuels, food products

South Africa 62.24%, China 4.2% (2009)

$376 million (31 December 2010 est.)

$351 million (31 December 2009 est.)

$5.772 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$5.667 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$NA

$NA

Zimbabwean dollars (ZWD) per US dollar - 234.25 (2010), 234 (2008), 30,000 (2007), 162 (2006), 78 (2005)