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by chr1 2497 days ago
585.84% [1] inflation in 2005 would correspond to (1-100/585)*100~=83% fall in economic output. Besides the main part of inflation was in 2008 - 79,600,000,000%, which could be explained by shrinking economics only if everyone except two people out of 14mln completely stopped producing anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe#Inf...