Zimbabwe: The Cost of Living

More than 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s 4.2 million workers are jobless. Once the breadbasket of southern Africa, Zimbabwe today is the world’s fastest-shrinking economy, with inflation surging past 1,000 percent.




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Welcome to Zimbabwe.

Find out what your salary would buy you in the former "bread basket" of Africa.

Here, supermarkets use money-counting machines, basic supplies have become luxury items and $100,000 ZWD, the largest bill in the country, barely buys you a loaf of bread.

Click on a price level to see what you could buy