Economic dashboard
The data layer
Structured, browsable series on Zimbabwe's economy. Every module states its source, its vintage, and what it cannot tell you.
At a glance
GDP growth
8.1%
Annual, constant prices
World Bank2025
CPI, annual avg
104.7%
Annual average, not year-on-year
Not current. The newest figure this source publishes is from 2022, 4 years ago.
World Bank2022
Reserves
US$485m
Latest published observation is from 2024.
World Bank2024
Remittances
US$3.51bn
Latest published observation is from 2024.
World Bank2024
Browse by module
Macro overview
12 indicatorsGDP, inflation, fiscal balance, reserves, debt and the dual-currency regime.
Trade
4 indicatorsExports and imports by value, the trade balance, and regional agreement utilisation.
Sector dashboards
6 sectorsMining, agriculture, manufacturing, tourism, financial services and ICT.
Investment & capital flows
5 indicatorsFDI, ZIDA approvals, capital markets activity and diaspora remittances.
Sourcing
Permanently linked from every data module. Each source is listed with what it publishes and what it gets wrong.
Full methodology →World Bank
multilateral
Primary source for internationally comparable macro series. WDI figures for Zimbabwe are compiled from national accounts supplied by ZIMSTAT and the RBZ, so they inherit those bodies' limitations; the World Bank's contribution is consistency of method across countries and years, not independent measurement. Series are pulled live from the WDI API and carry the vintage the API reports.
IMF
multilateral
Pulled live from the IMF DataMapper API. The IMF is the only source publishing several series for Zimbabwe at all — general government debt and the fiscal balance among them — and where it overlaps with the World Bank the two sometimes disagree sharply, as on consumer prices from 2022. IMF staff figures reflect staff judgement rather than national submissions alone. World Economic Outlook projections are excluded from this platform; only actual years are published.
ZIMSTAT
government
The official statistical authority and the origin of most national accounts and CPI data. Methodology for the CPI has changed repeatedly with the currency regime — including suspensions of the year-on-year series — so ZIMSTAT inflation is not continuously comparable across breaks. ZIX marks those breaks rather than splicing across them.
RBZ
central bank
Source for monetary policy decisions, official exchange rates, reserve money and remittance inflows. The RBZ is both the publisher of the official rate and a participant in the market that rate describes; ZIX therefore treats official FX data as a policy statement as much as a measurement, and pairs it with market readings wherever a verifiable one exists.
ZIDA
government
Source for licensed and approved investment projects. Approval values are announced intentions, not committed or disbursed capital, and historically a large share has not converted. ZIX reports approvals and realised FDI as separate series and never as one number.
CZI
industry
Source for the annual Manufacturing Sector Survey, including capacity utilisation. Survey-based and self-reported by member firms, so it skews toward formal, larger manufacturers and away from the informal sector. Valuable as a directional read from inside industry; not a census.
ZSE
market
Source for listed market capitalisation, turnover and index levels. Local-currency index moves in a high-inflation regime largely track the currency rather than real value, so ZSE series are shown in USD terms or alongside the exchange rate, never as a bare local-currency percentage.
InvestIQ
market
Source for daily closing prices on the ZSE and VFEX. The sheet arrives by email as a PDF and is read automatically, with fixed rules rather than AI, because a model reading a price sheet invents plausible figures. Nothing is published until four checks pass: the email authenticates as coming from InvestIQ's own domain; every row matches a security ZIX has verified independently, so identifiers are never taken from the sheet; each row's previous close, change and percentage agree with each other; and no price moves implausibly against the last session ZIX published. A sheet that fails any check is held for a person to review. A broker's sheet is a compilation of exchange data rather than the exchange's own record, and on thinly traded counters a closing price can be a single small trade.
Chamber of Mines
industry
Source for mining production and outlook surveys. Membership-based, and gold figures in particular understate output that leaves the country outside formal channels. Treated as a floor on production, not a total.