Economy · Nominal GDP · Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s nominal GDP rose to $51.2bn in 2025.
$51.2bn
2025
Up $9.7bn from 2024.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
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$51.2bn
What it is. Nominal GDP adds up the value of everything produced inside Zimbabwe in a year, priced at current levels and expressed in US dollars. Statisticians build it from output, spending or income across farming, mining, manufacturing and services. Because it is measured at current prices, a rise can reflect more output, higher prices or a change in the exchange rate used for conversion. Unpaid household work and parts of informal activity are hard to record, so they can be undercounted.
Higher is better. Higher is better here because a larger dollar economy means more income to earn, spend and tax. Nominal GDP also carries price changes, so part of any rise can be inflation rather than extra output. The latest figure, for 2025, is $51.2bn, up from $41.5bn a year earlier, a gain of $9.7bn or 23.3%. Since 2016 the low was $20.6bn in 2016, and the 2025 figure is the highest in that span.
Why it matters. A bigger economy widens the base from which the government collects taxes and pays for services, and gives firms a larger market measured in dollars. Households benefit only to the extent that incomes keep pace with prices and population, so average living standards need to be checked against inflation and per person figures. Lenders and investors use the dollar total to judge how large Zimbabwe's debts and projects are relative to the economy.
| Period | Nominal GDP · Zimbabwe |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $20.6bn |
| 2017 | $51bn |
| 2018 | $34.1bn |
| 2019 | $33.4bn |
| 2020 | $32bn |
| 2021 | $41.3bn |
| 2022 | $40.8bn |
| 2023 | $35.9bn |
| 2024 | $41.5bn |
| 2025 | $51.2bn |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Nominal GDP, Zimbabwe, 2025; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/economy/nominal-gdp/zimbabwe
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Gross domestic product at current US dollars. Unit: USD bn.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.