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Washington, DC 20009 telephone: [1] (202) 332-7100 FAX: [1] (202) 483-9326 Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affairs Earl M. IRVING embassy: 172 Herbert Chitepo Avenue, Harare mailing address: P. O. Box 3340, Harare telephone: [263] (4) 250-593 FAX: [263] (4) 796487 Flag description: seven equal horizontal bands of green, yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green with a white isosceles triangle edged in black with its base on the hoist side; a yellow Zimbabwe bird is superimposed on a red five-pointed star in the center of the triangle Zimbabwe Economy Economy - overview: The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles to consolidate earlier moves to develop a market-oriented economy. Its involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, has already drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. Badly needed support from the IMF suffers delays in part because of the country's failure to meet budgetary goals. Inflation rose from an annual rate of 32% in 1998 to 59% in 1999 and 60% in 2000. The economy is being steadily weakened by excessive government deficits and AIDS; Zimbabwe has the highest rate of infection in the world. Per capita GDP, which is twice the average of the poorer sub-Saharan nations, will increase little if any in the near-term, and Zimbabwe will suffer continued frustrations in developing its agricultural and mineral resources. GDP: purchasing power parity - $28.2 billion (2000 est.) GDP - real growth rate: -6.1% (2000 est.) GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,500 (2000 est.) GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 28% industry: 32% services: 40% (1997 est.) Population below poverty line: 60% (1999 est.) Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.8% highest 10%: 46.9% (1990) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 60% (2000 est.) Labor force: 5.5 million (2000 est.) Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 66%, services 24%, industry 10% (1996 est.) Unemployment rate: 50% (2000 est.) Budget: revenues: $2.5 billion expenditures: $2.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $279 million (FY96/97 est.) Industries: mining (coal, gold, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel, wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer
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