<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Zimbabwe<nl>Economy</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> Agriculture employs three-fourths of the labor force and supplies almost 40% of exports. The manufacturing sector, based on agriculture and mining, produces a variety of goods and contributes 35% to GDP. Mining accounts for only 5% of both GDP and employment, but supplies of minerals and metals account for about 40% of exports. Wide fluctuations in agricultural production over the past six years have resulted in an uneven growth rate, one that on average has matched the 3% annual increase in population. Helped by an IMF/World Bank structural adjustment program, output rose 3.5% in 1991. A severe drought in 1991/92 caused the economy to contract by about 10% in 1992.
<item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—purchasing power equivalent—$15.9 billion (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> 2% (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $1,400 (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Agriculture:</hi> accounts for 20% of GDP and employs 74% of population; 40% of land area divided into 4,500 large commercial farms and 42% in communal lands; crops—corn (food staple), cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; livestock—cattle, sheep, goats, pigs; self-sufficient in food
<item><hi format=bold>Economic aid:</hi> NA
<item><hi format=bold>Currency:</hi> 1 Zimbabwean dollar (Z$)=100 cents