Population below poverty line:38.3% (2019 est.) Definition:National estimates of the percentage of the population falling below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group. Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nati...
Population below poverty line54.4% (2015 est.)38.3% (2019 est.) Household income or consumption by percentage sharelowest 10%:1.5% highest 10%:47.4% (2010)lowest 10%:2% highest 10%:40.4% (1995) Inflation rate (consumer prices)9.1% (2019 est.) ...
Muia noted that out of 5 million people living below the poverty datum line in Zimbabwe, 70 percent are women while maternal deaths in the country, at 490 per 100,000 babies born per year, remained unacceptably high. She said out of every four people infected with HIV in Zimbabwe, one i...
Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) is a commercial bank in Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa with a population of 11.6 million people. Seventy-five percent of the population lives below the poverty line and most of them on less than US$1 per day. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by...
Not only did the exercise offer a way of stratifying the population sample (our samples include all members in the village, and so are a full census), but they offer insights into the criteria that differentiate them. No one discussion was the same. Some participants focused especially on ...
The government at the national and local levels should urgently act to ensure alternative sources of safe drinking water, such as safe boreholes and protected wells, for the entire population, Human Rights Watch said. “Zimbabwean authorities should not wait for the next cholera outbreak to provi...
According to the UN Country Analysis Report (2010) and the Zimbabwe MDG Status Report (2010), poverty in Zimbabwe is high with approximately 72 per cent of the population living below the poverty datum line. The economic growth under the GNU has not proportionally resulted in reduction of ...
The gross enrolment rate in primary education was below 65% in the 1970s, with less than half of those students transitioning to secondary school (Dorsey, 1989; Kanyongo, 2005). This meant that a significant proportion of the population, particularly those in rural areas and from disadvantaged...
Zimbabwe is currently facing an unfolding humanitarian and economic crisis, with almost three quarters of population living below the income poverty line. The country was also hit by disasters such as the drought and the Cyclone Idai which have worsened structural weaknesses and fragil...
The existing government policies are designed to improve access to electricity in rural areas, which because of past political policies, which segregated the population on racial lines, remains marginalized, in terms of infrastructure. In rural areas, unlike in urban areas, massive investment in terms...