Zimbabwe
Republic of Zimbabwe
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- Region
- Africa · Eastern Africa
- Capital
- Harare
- Population
- 16,950,795 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currencies
- Botswana pula (BWP), Chinese yuan (CNY), Euro (EUR), British pound (GBP), Indian rupee (INR), Japanese yen (JPY), United States dollar (USD), South African rand (ZAR), Zimbabwean bonds (ZWB)
- Official languages
- Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Ndau, Northern Ndebele, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zimbabwean Sign Language
- Spoken languages
- Shona (official, most widely spoken) 80.9%, Ndebele (official, second most widely spoken) 11.5%, English (official, traditionally used for official business) 0.3%
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 390,757 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- African Union, COMESA, IMF, SADC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Botswana , Mozambique , South Africa , Zambia
Political stability
49 / 100
Economic stability
23 / 100
Population stability
40 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, tobacco, nickel, minerals, diamonds (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, fertilizers, trucks, soybean oil, stone processing machines (2023)
- Natural resources
- coal, chromium ore, asbestos, gold, nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium, tin, platinum group metals
- Primary route
- Indian Ocean gateways (Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti) to Asia and the Gulf
- Secondary route
- Suez corridor to Europe
The xin.bz view
- Zimbabwe reports ~2.68M t of maize with a projected strategic-grain surplus, and shares Kariba’s doubled storage — but its January 2027 lithium-processing transition raises industrial electricity demand just as El Niño tightens hydropower inflows.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Splitting Africa's Water Map — Just as the World Turns to the Continent for Food, Fertilizer, Fuel and Critical Minerals
A wetter Horn and a drier south, Southern Africa's grain and Kariba buffers, cocoa's port squeeze, Moroccan phosphate and Nigerian fuel as global substitutes, and the corridors that turn African resources into accessible supply.
Zimbabwe's Antimony Export Restriction Turns Processing Capacity Into Strategic Power
Zimbabwe has placed antimony and tungsten behind a national gate, and the decisive contest is now over who finances the processing capacity — in a market where three countries mine 85% of world supply.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.