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The World Bank’s Human Capital Index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one.

An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a value…

Data from the Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry (ZNCR), which collates cancer data in the country, shows cases have increased over the past decade. 

In 2009, a total of 3,519 new cancer cases were recorded in Zimbabwe. Cases rose to 6,548 in 2013 and 7,265 in 2016. In 2018, according to a…

Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. The share of people who need to be immune in order to achieve herd immunity varies with each disease. The…

According to the latest Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA 2020), the rate of annual new HIV infections among adults in Zimbabwe is 0.38% (0.54% among women and 0.20% among men) or about 31,000 persons over a year. 

The prevalence of HIV among adults was 12.9%, which…

Zimbabwe had approximately 310,000 malaria cases in 2019, equivalent to an incidence rate of 22 cases per 1,000 people. This represented a 19% increase in the number of cases reported in 2018 (approximately 260,000).

The number of malaria deaths in Zimbabwe rose from 236 in 2018 to 266 in 2019.

Due to highly restrictive abortion laws, more than 70,000 women each year undergo unsafe abortions. One estimate is that Zimbabwean women run a 200 times greater risk of dying due to unsafe abortion complications than their counterparts in South Africa, where the procedure is legal.

Zimbabwe’s teenage pregnancy rate is about 22%.

As of February 2020, there were 1,414 doctors and 15,353 nurses working in the country’s public hospitals.More: FACTSHEET: Doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals