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Landets ökända sedel värd 100 biljoner zimbabwiska dollar. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / AP)

Lägsta inflationen i Zimbabwe på 29 år: ”Historiskt”

Zimbabwes årliga inflationstakt kan räknas på ensiffriga tal för första gången sedan 1997. Det skriver Bloomberg efter att inflationen uppgått till 4,1 procent i årstakt under januari.

– Detta markerar ett historiskt ögonblick för Zimbabwe, säger finansminister Mthuli Ncube i ett uttalande.

Landet använder en ny guldbackad valuta som infördes i april 2024. Under hyperinflationen 2008 rapporterade BBC om årlig inflationstakt på hundratals miljoner procent. Enligt den amerikanska libertarianska tankesmedjan Cato Institute nådde inflationen senare en topp på 89,7 sextiljoner procent. Det motsvarar 897 följt av 20 nollor.

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Inflationen i Zimbabwe
Wikipedia (en)
The economy of Zimbabwe has been undergoing hyperinflation since February 2007, according to Cagan's definition of hyperinflation. During the height of inflation from 2008 to 2009, it was difficult to measure Zimbabwe's hyperinflation because the government of Zimbabwe stopped filing official inflation statistics. However, Zimbabwe's peak month of inflation is estimated at 79.6 billion percent month-on-month, 89.7 sextillion ( 8.97 × 10 22 {\displaystyle 8.97\times 10^{22}} ) percent year-on-year in mid-November 2008. At that time, a $100 trillion banknote could not pay for a simple bus fare. In April 2009, Zimbabwe stopped printing its currency, and currencies from other countries were used. In mid-2015, Zimbabwe announced plans to have completely switched to the United States dollar by the end of that year. In June 2019, the Zimbabwean government announced the reintroduction of the Real Time Gross Settlement dollar (RTGS), to be known simply as the "Zimbabwe dollar", and that all foreign currency was no longer legal tender. By mid-July 2019, inflation had increased to 175%, sparking concerns that the country was entering another period of hyperinflation. In March 2020, with inflation above 500% annually, a new task force was created to assess the currency problems. By July 2020, annual inflation was estimated to be 737%.
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