Occidental <Occidental@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Apr 3, 9:23 am, Bob LeChevalier <loj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Do you have any clue what Zimbabwe is like?
>>
>> GDP: 2006 $25.36 billion
>> 1977 (before independence) $1.5 billion
>
>Zimbabwe:
>
>"the official exchange rate fell from approximately 1 (revalued)
>Zimbabwean dollar per US dollar in 2003 to 30,000 per US dollar in
>2007"
That is why I quoted the GDP in US dollars, not in Zimbabwean dollars.
>Life expectancy at birth:
>total population: 39.5 years
>male: 40.62 years
>female: 38.35 years (2007 est.)
which is higher than it was 30 years ago.
>Economy - overview:
>The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic
>problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an
>overvalued official exchange rate,
so far sounds like the US
>hyperinflation, and bare store shelves.
Those we don't have yet.
>Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the
>economy.
Iraq, Congo. Same sort of thing.
>GDP (purchasing power parity):
>$6.186 billion (2007 est.)
>
>GDP (official exchange rate):
>$16.17 billion (2007 est.)
Both values are significantly higher than $1.5 billion. The 2006
number I quoted was PPP.
>GDP - real growth rate:
>-6% (2007 est.)
which could continue for 20 years and the country would STILL have a
bigger economy than it had in 1977.
>GDP - per capita (PPP):
>$500 (2007 est.)
>
>Unemployment rate:
>80% (2005 est.)
>
>Population below poverty line:
>68% (2004)
Now what were the numbers before independence? Probably 95% below the
poverty line.
lojbab
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