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Zimbabwe — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Zimbabwe, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
8.11%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +28.3% since 1961
GDP growth for Zimbabwe was 8.11% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 22.57% in 1970. The lowest was -17.67% in 2008 (about -2.2× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.39% per year.
Zimbabwe ranks 11 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 5%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Zimbabwe sits above it. It peaked in 1970 and has fallen 64% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 355%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
8.11%
First (1961)
6.32%
Change
+28.3%
Highest
22.57%
in 1970
Lowest
-17.67%
in 2008
Average
3.03%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.39%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.11% |
| 2024 | 1.68% |
| 2023 | 5.35% |
| 2022 | 6.14% |
| 2021 | 8.47% |
| 2020 | -7.82% |
| 2019 | -6.33% |
| 2018 | 5.01% |
| 2017 | 4.73% |
| 2016 | 0.76% |
| 2015 | 1.78% |
| 2014 | 2.38% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.