NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title ZDHS Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Tabulations only Geography Zimbabwe (ZWE) Coverage type Country Time period covered 12/2023 - 05/2024 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys DHS Related Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2023-2024 is part of phase 8 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. Topics commonly covered in DHS include: child and maternal health, family planning, nutrition, health behavior and knowledge, health care access and use, domestic violence, and immunization. For the 2023-2024 Zimbabwe DHS, 9,666 women ages 15-49 and 4,185 men ages 15-54 were successfully interviewed from 10,725 households. Additionally, anemia testing anthropometry measurements were performed for men, women, and children ages 0-59 months. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adolescents, Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child health care, Child mortality, Children, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Complete sibling history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, Counseling, Dairy products, Diarrhea, Domestic migration, Domestic violence, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, FFQ, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Fruits, Gestational age, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Health behaviors, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Hysterectomy, IUDs, Immunization, Indoor residual spraying, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Injuries, Insecticide-treated bednets, Internet, Intimate partner violence, Iodine supplements, Land ownership, Length of stay, Lifestyle risk factors, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menopause, Menstruation, Micronutrient supplements, Milk, Mortality, Multiple births, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Pap smears, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Pneumococcal vaccines, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Respiratory infections, Rotavirus vaccines, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Secondhand smoke, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Starchy vegetables, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Syringes, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Transportation, Unprocessed red meat, Upper respiratory infections, VCT, Vaccination cards, Vegetables, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Whole grains, Young adults, Zinc Citation Contributors ICF International Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency Ministry of Health and Child Care (Zimbabwe) Funders Government of Zimbabwe United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) Health Resilience Fund United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ministry of Health and Child Care (Zimbabwe) Suggested citation ICF International, Ministry of Health and Child Care (Zimbabwe), Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency. Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey 2023-2024. GHDx Entry last modified on: Apr 28, 2025