Names: conventional long form: Republic of Zimbabwe conventional short form: Zimbabwe former: Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia

Capital City: Harare

Population: 12,236,805 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $2,000 (2006 est.)

Currency: Zimbabwean dollar (ZWD)

Languages: English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects

Total Area: total: 390,580 sq km land: 386,670 sq km water: 3,910 sq km slightly larger than Montana

Region: Africa

Industries: mining (coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel; wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, clothing and footwear, foodstuffs, beverages

Agriculture: corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; sheep, goats, pigs

Resources: coal, chromium ore, asbestos, gold, nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium, tin, platinum group metals

Labor Force: 3.958 million (2006 est.)
agriculture: 66% industry: 10% services: 24% (1996)

Exports: $1.766 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing

Imports: $2.055 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals, fuels

Overview: The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued exchange rate, soaring inflation, and bare shelves. Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. The government's land reform program, characterized by chaos and violence, has badly damaged the commercial farming sector, the traditional source of exports and foreign exchange and the provider of 400,000 jobs, turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products. Badly needed support from the IMF has been suspended because of the government's arrears on past loans, which it began repaying in 2005. The official annual inflation rate rose from 32% in 1998, to 133% in 2004, 585% in 2005, and approached 1000% in 2006, although private sector estimates put the figure much higher. Meanwhile, the official exchange rate fell from approximately 1 (revalued) Zimbabwean dollar per US dollar in 2003 to 250 per US dollar in August 2006.

_{CIA World Book}

In 2007 Missouri exported $461,335 in goods to Zimbabwe. This ranks Zimbabwe 168^th among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Zimbabwe increased from the previous year by $232,26. State exports to Zimbabwe have increased over the last 5 years by $855,416 a change of 22.72%. Missouri exports account for .00%. of all 2007 US exports to Zimbabwe.