Seventy-four-percent of Zimbabweans live on less than $5.50 a day. Forty-seven-percent live on less than $3.20 a day, and 21% live on less than $1.90 per day. These are general statistics for the country, and do not account for the gender pay gap that exists worldwide.

Zimbabwe’s gender pay gap conversation goes deeper than this because statistics also show that only 5.2% of women in Zimbabwe are formally employed. That means the remainder of the population is unemployed or occupying space in the already crowded informal sector. According to the International Labour Organization, 65% of the people in Zimbabwe’s informal sector are women.

The cost of living in Zimbabwe is incredibly high due to the ever-rising inflation. The introduction of the Zimbabwean currency was meant to bring “stability” to the nation, but citizens have yet to experience this.