The extreme poverty rate in Zimbabwe has been increasing since 2011, with the World Bank estimating nearly half of Zimbabweans lived in extreme poverty in 2020.
Poverty affected 71% of Zimbabwean children living in rural areas as of 2020, with millions of children going chronically hungry.
More than one quarter of children in Zimbabwe, do not live with either parent. The majority of these children have been abandoned by their parents or orphaned.