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Zimbabwe in 10 numbers (1 the number of leaders in the last 37 years.…
Zimbabwe in 10 numbers
1 the number of leaders in the last 37 years.
President Mugabe has lead the country since the liberation in 1980.
He and his supporters have stayed in power for so long by using violence and murder.
231 million% the inflation in July 2008
The economy has struggled since land reforms in 2000
In order to get out of the economic downfall they started to print money causing inflation to sky rocket.
$16.3bn their GDP in 2016
Due to political and economic crisis's from 2000 to 2008 there GDP has halved.
President Mugabe has always blamed Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries, led by the UK, to oust him because of his seizure of white-owned farms.
89% is the adult literacy rate
Almost all women and men aged 15-49 have had at some primary education, further to this more than 70% of people aged 15-49 have also attended secondary school.
Since there independence in 1980 Zimbabwe have largely invested in education meaning that they have one of the highest adult literacy rate in Africa
16.7 million the current population
There was a boom in population in 1980 since there has been a decline in birth rates and a rise in death rates causing population growth slide downwards.
Outward migration rates also high causing the population to not increase.
60 life expectancy at birth
it has been improving however with unemployment and poverty endemic and HIV/Aids rates still high it is still only at 60
Life expectancy fell in the 1990s, due ti the HIV/Aids epidemic. It dropped from a high of 61.6 in 1986 to 43.1 in 2003.
81 the number of mobile subscriptions per 100 people
Only 43% of households have a radio, 37% have a television and 10% have a computer
Mobile phones are a key method of communication in Zimbabwe
13.5% the adult prevalence rate of HIV/Aids
Zimbabwe has the sixth highest HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. 1.3 million citizens living with HIV in 2016
After a peak in 1997, the level has been declining, this is the out come of a UN lead condom campaign
74% of the population living on less than $5.50 a day
Around 27% of children under the age of five suffer stunted growth, 9% severely stunted because of poor nutrition,
In the hardest years from 2000 to 2008 poverty rates increased to more than 72%. It also caused a fifth of the population to be in extreme poverty.
90% an estimate of the unemployment rate
Unemployment figures vary wildly those produced by the government go as low at 5%.