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Country Report | Mozambique
Mozambique is the current star in Africa’s rising inward-investment constellation. For much of the last quarter of the 20th century, Mozambique was a war zone. Today the only war on its horizon is a bidder’s war, as investors salivate over the opportunities this Southern African country offers.
USD 3.3 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 7.4% | 6.9% | 6.4% | 6.7% | 7.1% | 7.2% | 7.1% |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | ||
| 7.4% | 6.6% | 3.8% | 3.7% | 3.3% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
| 0.02% | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.03% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 3.6% | 19.9% | 15.1% | 3.9% | 5.6% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 94.2% | 129.9% | 100.5% | 99.8% | 108.8% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| -7.2% | -6% | -3.1% | -5.2% | -6.5% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: SD
Moody's : Caa2
Standard & Poor's / Moody's
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-30.4 % (2018 estimate)
40.7% (2018)
0.03% (2018)
0.01% (2018)
Aluminum, prawns, cashews, cotton, sugar, citrus, timber; bulk electricity
Machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel, chemicals, metal products, foodstuffs, textiles
India 28.1%, Netherlands 24.4%, South Africa 16.7% (2017)
South Africa 36.8%, China 7%, UAE 6.8%, India 6.2%, Portugal 4.4% (2017)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 3,093 million | USD 2,293 million | USD 2,711 million |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 35 million | USD 26 million | USD -19 million |
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2016 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A
N/A
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking:
138 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 176 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 61 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 103 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 136 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 165 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 147 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 127 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 94 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 168 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 86 out of 190 countries
137 out of 141 countries
(2019)
Ranking: 163 / Score: 48.6 (Repressed)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Emakhuwa 26.1%, Portuguese (official) 16.6%, Xichangana 8.6%, Cinyanja 8.1, Cisena 7.1%, Elomwe 7.1%, Echuwabo 4.7%, Cindau 3.8%, Xitswa 3.8%, other Mozambican languages 11.8%, other 0.5%, unspecified 1.8% (2017 est.)
Roman Catholic 27.2%, Muslim 18.9%, Zionist Christian 15.6%, Evangelical/Pentecostal 15.3%, Anglican 1.7%, other 4.8%, none 13.9%, unspecified 2.5% (2017 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015* | 2020* |
| 13.57 million | 18.28 million | 24.32 million | 27.98 million | 31.99 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
| 6.9% | 13.2% | 29.1% | 36% |
Total population: 56%
Male: 70.8%
Female: 43.1%
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
81.5% (last available estimate, 2014)
54 (last available estimate, 2014)
Partly Free
Political Rights: 4
Civil Liberties: 4 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 0.2% Mobile: 47.7% (2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)