AREA: 799,380 sq KM
COASTLINE: 2470 km

BORDERING COUNTRIES: Malawi 1498 km; South Africa 496 km; Eswatini 108 km; Tanzania 840 km; Zambia 439 km; Zimbabwe 1,402 km

POPULATION: 32,513,805 (2023 est.)
POPULATION BELOW POVERTY LINE: 46.1% (2014 est)

URBANIZATION: 38.8% of total population (2023)

ETHNIC GROUPS:African 99% (Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others), Mestizo 0.8%, other (includes European, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese) 0.2% (2017 est.)

RELIGIONS: 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.)

AGES:
0-14 years: 45% (male 7,413,197/female 7,217,953)

15-64 years: 52.1% (male 8,153,175/female 8,787,792)

65 years and over: 2.9% (2023 est.) (male 461,904/female 479,784)

GOVERNMENT TYPE:
Presidential Republic

INDEPENDENCE:
June 25, 1975 (From Portugal)

CHIEF OF STATE: President Filipe Jacinto NYUSI (since 15 January 2015); note – the president is both chief of state and head of government

MILITARY STRENGTH:
information limited and varied; approximately 12,000 personnel (11,000 Army and about 1,000 Air Force and Navy) (2022)

Known Terrorism Groups: Islamic State of Mozambique ISIS-M

REFUGEES: refugees (country of origin): 12,107 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,250 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)

IDPs: 1.03 million (north Mozambique, violence between the government and an opposition group, violence associated with extremists groups in 2018, political violence 2019) (2022)

SOURCE: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/mozambique/