On Apr 4, 6:32 am, Bob LeChevalier <loj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Occidental <Occiden...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On Apr 3, 9:23 am, Bob LeChevalier <loj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Do you have any clue what Zimbabwe is like?
>
> >> GDP: 2006 $25.36 billion
> >> 1977 (before independence) $1.5 billion
>
> >Zimbabwe:
>
> >"the official exchange rate fell from approximately 1 (revalued)
> >Zimbabwean dollar per US dollar in 2003 to 30,000 per US dollar in
> >2007"
>
> That is why I quoted the GDP in US dollars, not in Zimbabwean dollars.
>
> >Life expectancy at birth:
> >total population: 39.5 years
> >male: 40.62 years
> >female: 38.35 years (2007 est.)
>
> which is higher than it was 30 years ago.
Reference?
>
> >Economy - overview:
> >The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic
> >problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an
> >overvalued official exchange rate,
>
> so far sounds like the US
>
> >hyperinflation, and bare store shelves.
>
> Those we don't have yet.
>
> >Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the
> >economy.
>
> Iraq, Congo. Same sort of thing.
>
> >GDP (purchasing power parity):
> >$6.186 billion (2007 est.)
>
> >GDP (official exchange rate):
> >$16.17 billion (2007 est.)
>
> Both values are significantly higher than $1.5 billion. The 2006
> number I quoted was PPP.
>
> >GDP - real growth rate:
> >-6% (2007 est.)
>
> which could continue for 20 years and the country would STILL have a
> bigger economy than it had in 1977.
>
> >GDP - per capita (PPP):
> >$500 (2007 est.)
>
> >Unemployment rate:
> >80% (2005 est.)
>
> >Population below poverty line:
> >68% (2004)
>
> Now what were the numbers before independence? Probably 95% below the
> poverty line.
>
> lojbab
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