Southern Africa
Zimbabwe
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Zimbabwe's #8 import source (world lens). Zimbabwe is the EU's #124 goods supplier.
Zimbabwe on the world stage
Total imports
$9.5bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$7.4bn
149 partners
#1 import source
South Africa
39.5%
#1 export dest.
United Arab Emirates
36.6%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Zimbabwe and the EU
EU imports from
€479m
0.0% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€234m
0.0% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #124 supplier
EU trade balance
one-sided
coverage 0.49
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember · estimated
Industrial
132
EUR/MWh
Consumer
110
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
298
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
–
of generation
regulated market
Power market
● Conflict / governance collapseMarket model
State monopoly (ZESA/ZETDC)
Direct PPA
None
grid access: closed
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Not independent
ZERA (Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority)
Combined Kariba south-bank drought (750 MW dam at record lows), ageing Hwange coal plant unreliability, and a forex crisis preventing fuel and parts imports result in up to 20 hours of daily load-shedding.
Tracked infrastructure
10 coal plants
1.7 GW · 4 building
3 solar farms
85 MW · 9 building
0 steel plants
capacity n/a · 1 building
5 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
13
4 production-backed
Acid-drainage prone
3
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Gold, Other mine, Other (poly)-metallic
Mine-water verifiability
Blind spot
EMA runs inspections and enforcement
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
18
→ 23.6 by 2050
Fertility
3.67
above replacement
Working-age
55.5%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
6.5
→ 8.5 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 16.6M · still growing past 2100
By 2050: +56% (25.9M)