Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe in numbers
39 measures of Zimbabwe from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.56% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$134M in 2025
- Military spending per person$10 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.3% of government spending in 2005
- Armed forces personnel51,000 people in 2020
- National power0.08% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.88% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports20 million TIV in 2023
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2001
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Zimbabwe with…
- Zimbabwe vs Nigeria
- Zimbabwe vs Ethiopia
- Zimbabwe vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Zimbabwe vs Tanzania
- Zimbabwe vs South Africa
- Zimbabwe vs Kenya
- Zimbabwe vs Sudan
- Zimbabwe vs Uganda
- Zimbabwe vs Angola
- Zimbabwe vs Mozambique
- Zimbabwe vs Ghana
- Zimbabwe vs Madagascar
- Zimbabwe vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Zimbabwe vs Cameroon
- Zimbabwe vs Niger
- Zimbabwe vs Mali
- Zimbabwe vs Burkina Faso
- Zimbabwe vs Malawi
- Zimbabwe vs Zambia
- Zimbabwe vs Chad
- Zimbabwe vs Somalia
- Zimbabwe vs Senegal
- Zimbabwe vs Guinea
- Zimbabwe vs Benin
- Zimbabwe vs Rwanda
- Zimbabwe vs Burundi
- Zimbabwe vs South Sudan
- Zimbabwe vs Botswana
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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