Purchasing Power Parity · Zimbabwe
Cost of living in 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe vs the United States
Zimbabwe has a US-relative price level of 0.508 (US = 1.0) — about 49% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Zimbabwe
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $98,425 | $25,400 |
| $80,000 | $157,480 | $40,640 |
| $120,000 | $236,220 | $60,960 |
| $180,000 | $354,331 | $91,440 |
| $250,000 | $492,126 | $127,000 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Zimbabwe's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.508 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.558 2025
IMF (WEO) 0.388 2025
Penn World Table 0.543 2023
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Zimbabwe is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇵🇪 Peru — price level 0.507
- 🇵🇱 Poland — price level 0.51
- 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia — price level 0.519
- 🇱🇷 Liberia — price level 0.496
- 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe — price level 0.493
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Zimbabwe compared to the United States?
- Zimbabwe has a price level of 0.508 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 49% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2025.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Zimbabwe?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $196,850 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Zimbabwe; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $50,800.
- Where does the Zimbabwe cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.