🇲🇿Mozambique

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Population

35.6M

2.9%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

4.69

births/woman

Life Expectancy

63.8y

GDP / capita

$626.9

Pop. Growth

2.85%

Net Migration

-65.6K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Mozambique by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇿🇼Zimbabwe101.5K(30.2%)

+14%

🇲🇼Malawi65.3K(19.5%)

+14%

🇦🇴

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male17.3MTotal 35.6M18.3MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

3.6

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇰🇪Kenya25.8K(7.7%)

+14%

🇿🇦South Africa21K(6.3%)

+14%

🇸🇨Seychelles17.7K(5.3%)

+14%

🇨🇩Congo, Dem. Rep.11.9K(3.6%)

+106%

🇧🇮Burundi8.7K(2.6%)

+381%

🇱🇸Lesotho8.2K(2.4%)

+13%

🇹🇿Tanzania7.7K(2.3%)

+13%

🇨🇻Cabo Verde7.1K(2.1%)

+13%

🇳🇬Nigeria5.6K(1.7%)

+13%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Mozambique diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Mozambique who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇿🇦South Africa412.1K(58.6%)

+10%

🇿🇼Zimbabwe126.8K(18.0%)

+8%

🇵🇹Portugal90.6K(12.9%)

+46%

🇲🇼Malawi39.2K(5.6%)

−29%

🇹🇿Tanzania14.2K(2.0%)

−50%

🇸🇿Eswatini10.1K(1.4%)

−7%

🇿🇲Zambia2.1K(0.3%)

+63%

🇧🇷Brazil1.7K(0.2%)

+22%

🇦🇺Australia1K(0.1%)

+19%

🇮🇹Italy953(0.1%)

+39%

🇪🇷Eritrea867(0.1%)

−5%

🇧🇼Botswana638(0.1%)

+22%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024