agriculture 66%, industry 10%, services 24% (1996)

Unemployment rate:
70% (2002 est.)

Population below poverty line:
70% (2002 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.97%
highest 10%: 40.42% (1995)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
50.1 (1995)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
133% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
9.9% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.325 billion
expenditures: $1.593 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
52.3% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; sheep,
goats, pigs

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

Industrial production growth rate:
-7.8% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
8.839 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 47%
hydro: 53%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
11.22 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
3 billion kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
23,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$-230.3 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$1.409 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing

Exports - partners:
South Africa 31.5%, Switzerland 7.4%, UK 7.3%, China 6.1%, Germany
4.3% (2004)

Imports:
$1.599 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals,
fuels

Imports - partners:
South Africa 46.9%, Botswana 3.6%, UK 3.4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$57 million (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$4.086 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$178 million; note - the EU and the US provide food aid on
humanitarian grounds (2000 est.)

Currency (code):
Zimbabwean dollar (ZWD)

Currency code:
ZWD

Exchange rates:
Zimbabwean dollars per US dollar - 4,303.28 (2004), 697.424 (2003),
55.036 (2002), 55.052 (2001), 44.418 (2000)
note: these are official exchange rates, non-official rates vary