Chart of the week: Zimbabwe scraps its currency

Zimbabwe has scrapped the dollar – several years after people stopped using it and turned to the US version.

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Zimbabwe has scrapped the dollar several years after people stopped using it and turned to the US version. Confidence in the currency was long ago shattered by hyperinflation: when the government stopped publishing data in 2008, the annual rate was 231 million per cent.

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