Mozambique

AfricaCapital city: MaputoCapital metro: MaputoPresident: Daniel ChapoPrime Minister: Maria Benvinda Levy
2026 population
35.0M
Rank #44 globally
Area
802k km² (309k sq mi)
Metros tracked
10
20% of population in metros
Composite score
6.0
Rank #124 globally

population: National annual projection (1 Jul 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 10 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography10 metros

Mozambique metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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10 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 10 tracked metros
10 metros
🗂️ Provinces

11 entries listed under Mozambique. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

11 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Portuguese
Legislature
Assembly of the Republic
Demonym
Mozambican
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Driving side
Left
Calling code
+258
Internet TLD
.mz
ISO 3166
MZ
Established
1975
Highest point
Monte Binga (2,436 m (7,992 ft))
National anthem
Pátria Amada

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentLow income
Human Dev. Index
#180 / 191
0.493
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#126 / 193
$22.3B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#189 / 193
$627
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#186 / 190
$1.7k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#188 / 192
$570
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#177 / 194
63.8 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
16.3 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#156 / 194
37%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
2.8%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#140 / 193
43/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#152 / 193
1.0%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#125 / 175
0.29
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#156 / 166
49.6
World Bank · 2022
Internet users
#177 / 193
21%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#131 / 185
4.4%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#17 / 192
0.2 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#31 / 186
83%
Ember · 2024

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations4 full memberships

Political & Economic

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History14 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Maria Benvinda Levy✦ Current

2025Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 5m

Daniel Chapo✦ Current

2025Present

President

Tenure: 1y 5m

Adriano Maleiane

20222025

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 10m

Carlos Agostinho do Rosário

20152022

Prime Minister

Tenure: 7y 1m

Filipe Nyusi

20152025

President

Tenure: 10y 0m

Alberto Vaquina

20122015

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 3m

Aires Ali

20102012

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 8m

Armando Guebuza

20052015

President

Tenure: 9y 11m

Luísa Diogo

20042010

Prime Minister

Tenure: 5y 10m

Pascoal Mocumbi

19942004

Prime Minister

Tenure: 9y 2m

Joaquim Chissano

19862005

President

Tenure: 18y 2m

Mário da Graça Machungo

19861994

Prime Minister

Tenure: 8y 4m
Show all 14 leaders

Samora Machel

19751986

President

Tenure: 11y 3m

Joaquim Chissano

19741975

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 9m
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#118 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Mozambique · share of world power, 1975–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19452 interstate wars · click to expand
Combat deaths: 4,135–4,323
FRELIMO,UNAMO (1988–1992),ZANU (until 1979),Zimbabwe (from 1980),Soviet Union,Tanzania,Malawi (from 1987)
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
33.6m
#47 in the world
Since 1800
17×
from 2.0m
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.42%
0.20% in 1800
9.2m18.3m27.5m36.6m18001850190019502000
Mozambique · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Mozambique: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
after 2100
still growing at 2100
2050
63.5m
95% band 45.0m to 88.5m
2100
104m
95% band 48.9m to 284m
2100 against 2025
2.93×
median still rising in 2100
74.5m149m224m298m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
278k born · 159k died · -56k net migration
TFR 6.00 · life expectancy 37.3 · median age 19.2
1960
324k born · 158k died · -54k net migration
TFR 6.31 · life expectancy 41.2 · median age 18.9
1970
392k born · 185k died · -18k net migration
TFR 6.70 · life expectancy 42.5 · median age 17.6
1980
600k born · 251k died · -150k net migration
TFR 6.53 · life expectancy 44.0 · median age 16.5
1990
621k born · 268k died · -127k net migration
TFR 6.32 · life expectancy 44.3 · median age 15.9
2000
790k born · 284k died · -104k net migration
TFR 5.83 · life expectancy 49.5 · median age 16.2
2010
985k born · 265k died · -97k net migration
TFR 5.66 · life expectancy 55.0 · median age 15.8
2020
1.2m born · 246k died · -26k net migration
TFR 4.96 · life expectancy 61.4 · median age 16.1
Show all 16 decades
2030
1.4m born · 262k died · -59k net migration
TFR 4.23 · life expectancy 64.8 · median age 17.3
2040
1.5m born · 306k died · -59k net migration
TFR 3.47 · life expectancy 66.4 · median age 19.2
2050
1.6m born · 371k died · -101k net migration
TFR 2.92 · life expectancy 67.8 · median age 21.6
2060
1.6m born · 464k died · -98k net migration
TFR 2.58 · life expectancy 69.2 · median age 24.3
2070
1.6m born · 583k died · -109k net migration
TFR 2.34 · life expectancy 70.4 · median age 27.0
2080
1.6m born · 720k died · -120k net migration
TFR 2.18 · life expectancy 71.6 · median age 29.6
2090
1.5m born · 867k died · -97k net migration
TFR 2.07 · life expectancy 72.9 · median age 32.0
2100
1.5m born · 1.0m died · -84k net migration
TFR 2.00 · life expectancy 74.2 · median age 34.2

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Mozambique on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.