ZIMBABWE

OUR COUNTRY IS ZIMBABWE

• It is located in South Africa.
• Between South Africa and Zambia.
• It is a tropical climate.
• There are no major bodies of water.
• Many droughts happen in Zimbabwe

INTERSTING FACTS

• Football, cricket,and rugby are the more popular sports in Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe has a tropical climate
• They also have a rainy season that goes from november to march

ZIMBABWE

• They are landlocked.
• Mostly high plateaus.
• Mountains in the Eastern part.
• The Smokey Falls named Victoria is a popular tourist attravction.
• Life expectancy is 55 for men and 56 for women.

ECONOMIC STATUS

• $ 3.144 billion export.
• $ 4.571 billion import.
• The unemployed rate is 95%.
• Zimbabwe has 30 billion tons of coal.
• The HDI is .140 in 2012 and .397 in 2014.

ECONOMIC STATUS

• Their animal transport equals to 6.8 million leters of desiel.
• GDP per capita $600
• 202.4 % of GDP population below poverty line of 68%
• The literacy rate is 88% for men and 80% women.
• Percent of population under 15 is 41%.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

• Telephones 301,600
• 68.8% have mobile phones
• Internet hosts 30,615
• Internet users 1.423 million

BROADCAST MEDIA

• The government owns all local radio and t.v stations
• Satellites are available to people who can afford antennas
• 6 in 10 Zimbabwean households have radios
• 47.2% have a working television

NATURAL DISASTERS

• Recurring droughts
• Lots of air and water pollution
• Mining has lead to most of the pollution
• Mining practice also leads to most of the toxic waste
• The infant mortality rate is 55/1000.

MILITARY

• Ages 18-24 are allowed to serve
• Its all voluntarily
• Women are allowed to serve
• 2.94% of GDP

DISEASE

• Disease rate is really high
• Animal contact- rabies
• Water disease- schistosomiasis
• Vector borne disease- malaria/dengue feaver
• Food disease- hepatitis A

HIV/AIDS

• 14.7% of the country has HIV/aids
• 1,368,100 are infected with it
• 39,500 people have died from it

MEDICAL PROBLEMS

• Hospital density 1.7 beds/1000 population
• Doctors and nurses are going on srtike
• More then 100 doctors left Mpilo Central Hospital
• Only one general surgeon is left to care for 1,037 beds

WHY WE NEED 1 BILLION DOLLARS

• The country has lots of diseases so they need better medical tools
• IMR has improved slowly, on track to lower deaths.
• There needs to more doctors to treat patience with a diease.
• HDI has encreased rapidly from 0.140 to 0.397.
• Although our country has improved over the years with this money we can solve the major problems.