ICT & digital

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.

1. 01

   Data cost relative to median income remains high by regional standards.

2. 02

   Network availability is coupled to grid reliability.

3. 03

   Regulatory treatment of mobile money has changed abruptly in the past.

• World Bank

  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.

• RBZ

  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.