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Zimbabwe's meltdown in figures

Inflation
Inflation reached 231 million percent a year in July, the latest month for which a figure has been announced. Economists think it is now much higher and say prices are doubling daily.

GDP
Gross domestic product has fallen every year since 2000, down 10.4 percent in 2003 alone. The IMF estimated that the economy shrank 6.1 percent in 2007.Per capita GDP was estimated at $200 in 2007, from nearer $900 in 1990. Zimbabwe has the world's fastest shrinking economy for a country not at war, according to the World Bank.

Income
An estimated 83 percent of the population was living on below $2 a day by 2005. Since then, the situation has only worsened.

Unemployment
Unemployment is estimated at over 90 percent. Well over 3 million Zimbabweans are thought to have fled, mostly to South Africa, in search of work and food.

Life expectancy
Average life expectancy fell from 63 years in 1990 to 40.9 years in 2005, according to UN figures. The mortality rate for children under five rose to 132 deaths per 1,000 in 2005 from 76 deaths in 1990.

Cholera
The official death toll from a cholera epidemic since August is at least 565 with over 12,500 infected, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Zimbabwe.

(Source: Reuters)

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