Independent aggregation of economic, trade and investment data. Every number on this platform states where it came from and when it was published — including the ones that disagree with each other.
World prices for Zimbabwe’s main exports
Mining dashboard →32s ago · api.gold-api.com
Read from the national statistical agency and the central bank, checked against their own published tables. Each figure carries the vintage its source published it with — not the date this page was built.
Full macro dashboard →2.9%
Year-on-year, ZiG basket, April 2024 = 100 — ZIMSTAT monthly CPI
ZIMSTATAug 2026Verified
3.1%
Year-on-year, US dollar basket — ZIMSTAT monthly CPI
ZIMSTATAug 2026Verified
8.3%
Annual, 2025 outturn as stated by the RBZ
RBZAug 2026Verified
US$1.70bn
End-July 2026, approximately 1.7 months of import cover
RBZJul 2026Verified
Vintages differ by series, and that is informative in itself. The two inflation rates are a fortnight old; the growth figure is an annual outturn and will not move again this year. ZIX does not forward-fill to make a dashboard look uniform, and it does not average the ZiG and US dollar baskets into a single national rate that nobody actually experiences.
Tatenda Mapigoti · Unsplash Licence
Policy & macro
A small procedural milestone in Washington may mark a meaningful inflection point for one of Africa's most closely watched economies.
Divaris Shirichena · Unsplash Licence
Investor briefing
Newer firms are growing faster — and that creates space for new entrants.
Kaethe17 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sector deep-dive
Africa's largest lithium producer is testing whether a resource boom can become an industrial one.
Kariba Dam, not Gwayi-Shangani · JonGT · CC BY-SA 4.0
Investor briefing
The Nile offers a template for what disciplined water infrastructure can do for agriculture. Zimbabwe's Gwayi-Shangani Dam may be the closest thing the region has to that opportunity.
NASA, ISS Expedition 25 crew · Public domain
Investor briefing
The demand behind a $300 million bond deal is a sharper signal for frontier-market mining than the rate that priced it.
Omoniyi David · Unsplash Licence
Investor briefing
Four developments worth repricing around, and three that got attention but should not change anyone's model.
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Explainer
Two currencies, two exchange rates and one set of prices. A working guide to the mechanics, and to why the same transaction can be recorded three different ways.
Tasmania · Matthew de Livera · Unsplash Licence
Sector deep-dive
Export value tripled and then fell by a third. Almost none of that was about Zimbabwe. What the price cycle hides, and what it reveals about the beneficiation strategy.
An edited digest, not a press-release feed. Each item points at its primary source.
All signals →The policy rate was left unchanged while statutory reserve requirements on local-currency deposits were adjusted. The reserve change is the operative measure; the rate decision was widely expected.
Primary source: RBZ statement ↗The July WDI update revised several Zimbabwe national-accounts series. Growth and per-capita figures on this platform reflect the new vintage automatically; the change is visible in each series' as-of date.
Primary source: World Bank Open Data ↗The measure extends an existing restriction rather than introducing a new one. Project economics turn on the transition period and on whether domestic processing capacity is available within it.
Primary source: Ministry of Mines ↗Revenue was revised up in nominal terms. Read against inflation over the same period, the real position is materially less favourable than the headline suggests.
Primary source: Ministry of Finance ↗Production, export value and investment flows for each sector, with the constraints that actually bind.
All sectors →
Indonesia · Dominik Vanyi · Unsplash Licence
Gold, lithium, PGMs and chrome
Mining is the export economy. It earns most of the country's foreign currency, and its fortunes are set largely offshore — by the gold price, by the lithium cycle, and by PGM demand that is structurally exposed to the shift away from internal combustion. Domestic policy determines how much of that revenue is retained, not how much is earned.
4 constraints tracked →
Tatenda Mapigoti · Unsplash Licence
Tobacco, maize, horticulture
Agriculture employs far more people than it contributes to GDP, which makes it politically weighty out of proportion to its measured size. Output is rain-fed and therefore volatile; a good season and a bad season differ by more than most policy interventions do. Tobacco is the export story, and its buyer concentration is a risk that rarely appears in official framing.
3 constraints tracked →
Location not stated · Johannes Heel · Unsplash Licence
Import substitution under a hard currency constraint
Manufacturing's share of GDP has been roughly flat for a decade while capacity utilisation has moved in a band well below its own historical peak. The sector's constraint is not demand but input cost: firms buy inputs at effectively USD prices and compete against imports from economies with cheaper power and cheaper credit.
3 constraints tracked →
Sean Nyatsine · Unsplash Licence
Victoria Falls and the recovery that is hard to measure
Tourism should be a straightforward foreign-currency earner with a world-class anchor asset. The obstacle to assessing it is measurement: the published arrivals series has not been meaningfully updated since the pandemic, so any claim about the recovery is currently an assertion rather than a finding.
3 constraints tracked →
Tanaka Malote · Unsplash Licence
Banking, insurance and the ZSE under dollarisation
The financial sector's central problem is that intermediation in a dual-currency economy is structurally hard. Deposits are short and largely USD; lending in local currency carries currency risk the borrower cannot hedge. The result is a banking system that is liquid but does not lend long, and a capital market whose local-currency index moves largely track the exchange rate.
3 constraints tracked →
Omoniyi David · Unsplash Licence
Connectivity, mobile money and the data economy
Internet penetration has risen steadily and is one of the few series in the national accounts that moves in one direction without a policy-induced break. Mobile money is deeply embedded in daily transactions. The constraint is cost per gigabyte relative to income, and the power supply that connectivity depends on.
3 constraints tracked →
