POLITICAL FACTS

• Per Capita Income – US $340 (source: World Bank)
• Poverty Rate – 70% (source: Wikipedia)
• 70-80% unemployment (source: NY Times)
• Zimbabwe has the world’s second highest infection rate for HIV (Its neighbor Botswana has the highest). (source: CNN)
• 25% of people ages 25-45 are infected by HIV.
• Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the world. Goods cost more than 13 times what they did last year, and prices rise daily.
• Inflation will hit 1.5 MILLION percent by the end of the year, according to Christopher Dell, the US Ambassador to Zimbabwe.
• 4 million people need food aid.
• Life expectancy: 37 years old for men and 34 years old for women (from BBC)