Country Risk Index · ZWE

Zimbabwe

Southern Africa · May 2026 snapshot

84/ 100 CRI
High

Peer rank #1 of 10

MoM +1

CRI trend

Apr 2026 · May 2026

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Pillar scores

Currency (20%)
100
Sovereign (20%)
97
Regulatory (15%)
67
Counterparty (15%)
73
Liquidity (15%)
93
Political (15%)
60

Indicator inputs


Currency

100
Parallel-vs-official FX premium
44 %n100
12-month local-currency depreciation
66 %n100
Inflation (YoY)
60 %n100

Sovereign

97
External debt / GDP
93 %n92
In external arrears
1 0/1n100
ICRG-style sovereign band
9 1–10n100

Regulatory

67
Months since last RBZ/FX directive
1 monthsn100
Investment-approval backlog
15 weeksn100
FATF grey/black-list status
0 0/1/2n0

Counterparty

73
Banking-sector NPL ratio
10 %n46
State-owned-enterprise share of economy
38 %n100

Liquidity

93
Equity-market turnover / market-cap
6 %n87
Days to repatriate USD
130 daysn100

Political

60
Months to next national election
25 monthsn44
ACLED conflict-events trend
47 indexn46
Governance percentile
15 0–100n90

Each row shows the raw indicator value and (n) its peer-relative normalised 0–100 risk value. Source: desk estimates from public data.

Indicative composite · Not investment advice · May 2026