Zimbabwe Food Inflation 100 92.4 78.4 80 69.8 63.7 60 53.6 42.7 40 26.7 20 6.33 5.12 4.89 7.6 8 July 2018 Oct 2018 Jan 2019 0 Apr 2019 Source: tradingeconomics.com | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe 2018 Inflation Rate (%) Annual 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 er r r mb De ce No ve m be be Oc to r Se pt em be st Au gu ly Ju M ay ril Ju ne M Ap ar ch y ar ru Fe b Jan ua r y 0 Source: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe stood at just 6.6.% of the economically active population of 5.6 million people. 52% of these, ZimStats claimed, were employed in the agricultural sector, amounting to 2.9 million, and 18.8% were self-employed in different sectors of the economy, while the rest were employed in other sectors. These figures however were dismissed by independent analysts and labour unions who pegged the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe to be somewhere between 80 and 90%. The ZCTU described the government- Unemployment While the country has one of the most youthful populations, with the population ages 15-34 accounting for more than 36% of the total population, employment opportunities continued to dwindle. In 2018, the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZimStats) launched the 2017 Inter-Censal Demographic Survey (ICDS) which reported that 93% of the population was employed in one way or another. According to the survey, Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate 19 STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ZIMBABWE 2018