HHUMAN
PULSEBehind the data →

MOZ · Sub-Saharan Africa

Mozambique

35,631,653

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+999.89K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+96.5%from 18.13M
Life expectancy63.8 years2024
Fertility rate4.69births per woman · 2024
Urban population37.2%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Mozambique is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1444.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6453.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate37.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+30.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-65.57Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Mozambique look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 63.53M in 2050—83.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202434.63M
  2. 205063.53M
  3. 2100104.35M
Median age in 205021.6years
Births in 20501.59Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050370.73Kduring the year
Life expectancy67.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19606.71M
  2. 19708.25M
  3. 198011.34M
  4. 199013.09M
  5. 200018.13M
  6. 201023M
  7. 202030.78M
  8. 202535.63M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

Keep exploring

Put Mozambique into context.

Compare this country →Create your HumanPulse →