Percentage
46.36%
53.63%
45.53%
54.46%
Table 1 shows an overall picture of both ZESN 2018 population projections and ZEC
provisional BVR statistics. ZESN 2018 projections for the voting age population indicated
that Harare has the highest number of people aged 18+ (134 818), followed by
Manicaland (912 762), Midlands (865 185) and in fourth place is Mash West (834 414). The
Province with the least number of projected population aged 18+ is Matabeleland South
(356 586).
ZEC provisional BVR statistics (in the last column) shows that a substantial proportion of
adult Zimbabweans (2 039 056) did not register in the BVR Blitz and mop up exercise or
are yet to register. For example, Harare has a projected adult population of 1,3million (1
345 818) fewer than 800 thousand (747 920) have registered to vote. Thus the registered
population of Harare, in light of the projected figure is 55.6%. The province with the
highest proportion of registered voters is Matabeleland North (83.1%), followed closely
by Midlands (82.9%). Bulawayo (51.6%) and Harare (55.6%) are at the bottom of the ladder
of residents registered to vote.
Table 2: Statistics by gender
Province
ZESN 2017
ZEC provisional BVR
Projections
statistics
Men
Women
Men
%
Women
of %
registered
registered
women by men
by
Population
Population
Projection
Projection
Mat North
177596
211996
140898
182689
86.2%
79.3%
Midlands
397689
467496
328247
389263
83.3%
82.5%
Mash East
341616
394173
263840
321358
81.5%
77.2%
Mash Central
296783
323496
230406
260332
80.5%
77.6%
Masvingo
321247
433067
242715
340884
78.7%
75.6%
Mash West
411007
423407
299849
311902
73.7%
73.0%
Manicaland
405871
506891
284962
381981
75.4%
70.2%
Mat South
160059
196527
104578
141972
72.2%
65.3%
Harare
651540
694278
366467
381453
54.9%
56.2%
Bulawayo
186055
223334
99168
112108
50.2%
53.3%
Total
3349462
3874665
2361130
2823942
72.9%
70.5%
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