(measure: percent; Source: Medina and Schneider (2018))
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
Zimbabwe: Shadow economy, percent of GDP
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For that indicator, we provide data for Zimbabwe from 1991 to 2015. The average value for Zimbabwe during that period was 60.64 percent with a minimum of 52.09 percent in 1998 and a maximum of 69.08 percent in 2009.
The latest value from 2015 is 67 percent. For comparison, the world average in 2015 based on 158
countries is 27.78 percent.
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Definition: The shadow economy as percent of total annual GDP. Detailed methodology of the estimations can be obtained from the following International Monetary Fund working paper by Leandro Medina and Friedrich Schneider (2018): Shadow Economies Around the World: What Did We Learn Over the Last 20 Years?