Zimbabwe
Republic of Zimbabwe
- Capital
- Harare
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 17 million
- Currency
- BWP
- Area
- 390,757 km²
Across Zimbabwe's 11 priced cities, one person needs about $1,031 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $428.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%33
- Safety20%39
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%75
- Connectivity10%8
- Cost10%72
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 41.2%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 15.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 38.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 61.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 6.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #137 worldwide
- 25
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- −34%
Cities in Zimbabwe
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Kadoma | 63 | 39.7 | — | — | — | 117.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Kwekwe | 60 | — | — | — | — | 119.9K | Low confidence |
| 3Epworth | 56 | — | — | — | — | 206.4K | Low confidence |
| 4Chitungwiza | 56 | — | — | — | — | 371.2K | Low confidence |
| 5Gweru | 55 | 33.0 | $150 | $250 | 44.3 | 158.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 6Bulawayo | 52 | 34.5 | $175 | $300 | 49.5 | 666K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 7Mutare | 50 | 33.5 | $350 | $250 | 33.5 | 224.8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 8Victoria Falls | 48 | 47.1 | $250 | $800 | 95.5 | 35.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Marondera | 47 | 34.9 | $250 | — | — | 66.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 10Bindura | 46 | 39.7 | $200 | — | — | 50.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 11Shurugwi | 46 | 38.5 | — | — | — | 23.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 12Masvingo | 46 | 39.7 | — | — | — | 90.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Redcliff | 46 | 39.7 | — | — | — | 41.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Harare | 46 | 41.7 | $406 | $428 | 47.4 | 1.5M | High confidence, 37 contributors |
| 15Ruwa | 38 | — | — | $294 | — | 94.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Beitbridge | 38 | — | — | — | — | 58.6K | Low confidence |
| 17Chiredzi | 38 | — | — | — | — | 40.1K | Low confidence |
| 18Hwange | 38 | — | — | — | — | 39.8K | Low confidence |
| 19Karoi | 38 | — | — | — | — | 37.6K | Low confidence |
| 20Kariba | 38 | — | — | — | — | 27.6K | Low confidence |