Simbabwe - Daten & Fakten
Länderstatistik
geographic coordinates: 17 49 S, 31 02 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
etymology: named after a village of Harare at the site of the present capital; the village name derived from a Shona chieftain, NE-HARAWA, whose name meant "he who does not sleep"
citizenship by descent only: the father must be a citizen of Zimbabwe; in the case of a child born out of wedlock, the mother must be a citizen
dual citizenship recognized: no
residency requirement for naturalization: 5 years
land: 386,847 sq km
water: 3,910 sq km
arable land: 10.9% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 0.3% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 31.3% (2018 est.)
forest: 39.5% (2018 est.)
other: 18% (2018 est.)
15-64 years: 57.32% (male 4,417,612/female 4,419,769)
65 years and over: 4.52% (2023 est.) (male 269,329/female 428,361)
male: 65.2 years
female: 68.5 years
male: 20.2 years
female: 21.8 years
note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49
rate of urbanization: 2.41% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
male: 12 years
female: 11 years (2013)
5.35% (2020 est.)
4.83% (2019 est.)
note: data include both unemployment and underemployment; true unemployment is unknown and, under current economic conditions, unknowable
69.9% of GDP (2016 est.)
557.2% (2020 est.)
255.3% (2019 est.)
$5.267 billion (2019 est.)
$5.178 billion (2018 est.)
$5.398 billion (2019 est.)
$7.642 billion (2018 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (2020 est.)
percent of population: 35% (2021 est.)
narrow gauge: 3,427 km (2014) 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified)
paved: 18,481 km (2019)
unpaved: 78,786 km (2019)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 2 (2021 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 89 (2021 est.)
Zimbabwe-Mozambique: none identified
Zimbabwe-South Africa: South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to control smuggling, poaching, and illegal migration
Zimbabwe-Zambia: in 2004, Zimbabwe dropped objections to plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river; in May 2021, Botswana and Zambia agreed in principle to let Zimbabwe be a partner in the bridge project as it enters its lasts phase