Zimbabwe: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Zimbabwe's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) rose 44 percentage points on 2024 (from -18.12% to 25.87%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.85 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 19.46 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 54.1 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 38 percentage points in 2002. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2025, Zimbabwe had the 4th highest value of the 162 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Zimbabwe in the 2025 ranking

• Zambia — 1st of 162: 51.13%
• Mongolia — 2nd of 162: 33.24%
• Maldives — 4th of 162: 22.62%
• South Africa — 5th of 162: 17.43%
• Micronesia, Fed. Sts. — 6th of 162: 12.68%

What this measures

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing corresponds to ISIC (Rev. 4) divisions 01-03 and includes the exploitation of vegetal and animal natural resources, comprising the activities of growing of crops, raising and breeding of animals, harvesting of timber and other plants, animals or animal products from a farm or their natural habitats.Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.

Limitations: Among the difficulties faced by compilers of national accounts is the extent of unreported economic activity in the informal or secondary economy. In developing countries a large share of agricultural output is either not exchanged (because it is consumed within the household) or not exchanged for money. Agricultural production often must be estimated indirectly, using a combination of methods involving estimates of inputs, yields, and area under cultivation. This approach sometimes leads to crude approximations that can differ from the true values over time and across crops for reasons other than climate conditions or farming techniques.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 56 values

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) in nearby economies

• Angola — 3.25% (2025)
• Benin — 5.71% (2025)
• Botswana — 1.43% (2025)
• Burkina Faso — 11.64% (2025)
• Burundi — 1.73% (2025)
• Cabo Verde — 1.19% (2025)
• Cameroon — 1.4% (2025)
• Central African Republic — 3% (2025)
• Chad

More economic policy & debt data for Zimbabwe

• Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices (current US$) — US$48.51 billion (2025)
• Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices (current LCU) — 1.54 trillion (2025)
• GDP (current US$) — US$51.22 billion (2025)
• GDP (current LCU) — 1.63 trillion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$25.48 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant LCU) — 74.26 billion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$3,021 (2025)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 96,071 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$1,503 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 4,381 (2025)
• GNI (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Zimbabwe's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth)?

25.87% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1970?

It is up 33.38 percentage points from -7.51% in 1970. The highest value was 27.12% in 1993 and the lowest -39.3% in 2008.

How does Zimbabwe rank?

4th highest of 162 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) unusual for Zimbabwe?

In 2025, Zimbabwe's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) rose 44 percentage points on 2024 (from -18.12% to 25.87%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.85 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 19.46 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.AGR.TOTL.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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