
Mozambique facts - great collection of trivia.
Last update : 17 February 2019
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Capital : Maputo
Language : Portuguese
Currency : Mozambican metical
Population : 26 423 700
Area : 801 590 km2
2. The population density is 26 people / km2.
3. The country is 2.5 times larger than Poland.
4. The main religion is Catholicism, 28%.
5. The longest river is Zambezi, 820 km.
6. Full name of the country – Republic of Mozambique.
7. Political system – republic.
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9. The highest peak is Binga, 2436 m above sea level.
10. The average temperature is in January 28 °C, in July 22 °C.

11. The area of today’s Mozambique was examined by Vasco da Gama in 1498 and colonized by Portugal in 1505.
Author: MR
12. A Kalashnikov rifle is placed on the flag of Mozambique.
Author: Fakty
13. The minimum wage in the public sector is 3,002 matical per month (data from 2014).
14. The unemployment rate in 2018 is 25% .
Author: Daria
15. In Mozambique, an average person consumes about 2.3 liters of pure alcohol per year.
16. The most beer is beer – 64%, then spirit – 25%, wine – 7%, and other alcoholic beverages – 4%.
Author: AlkoWorld
17. In this country, compulsory education lasts 7 years.
18. The beginning of education begins at the age of 6.
19. The average IQ level is 64.
Author: EduKacJa
20. In this country there are 41.2% of people above 15 years of age who can not read or write (approximately 10,599,899 people).
Author: Reebeka
21. Built-up speed allowed 60 km / h.
22. Outside the built-up area, the permitted speed is 120 km / h.
23. The permissible blood alcohol content of a person driving a car is 0.6 per mille.
24. In 2013, 1,4,744 people lost their lives due to traffic accidents.
25. In this country there is left-hand traffic.
26. In this country, over 542,000 motor vehicles are registered (21 vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants).
Author: AutoMania
27. 37% of the population suffer from malnourishment (around 9,520,000 people).
Author: Durga
28. 87.5% of the population live on less than 3 $a day.
Author: Durga
29. In this country there are over 30 331 km of paved roads (0.05% of all roads in the world).
30. In this country there are 98 airports, 21 of the paved surface.
Author: Marlène
31. In this country there are more than 4,787 km of railway tracks.
Author: Marlène
32. In this country, over 1 503 000 (2015) 5 279 135 (2018) people have access to internet (about 20% of the population).
33. Around 1,200,000 (2015) 1 800 000 (2018) accounts on Facebook.
Author: NET
34. The national top-level domain is .mz . There are over 4,900 websites with such an extension.
35. The most popular pages with the extension .mz are: google.co.mz, jornalnoticias.co.mz and uem.mz.
Author: http
36. This country has 2018 over year $2,952,000,000 in foreign exchange reserves (0.028% of foreign currency reserves of all countries in the world).
Author: Vinamra
37. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) …
– in 2015 the year is $18 595 000 000 ,
– in 2018 the year is $12 330 000 000 .
38. Internal debt at the beginning …
– 2015 year was 55.4% GDP, or around: $10,330,630,000 ,
– 2018 of the year was 88.2% GDP, or around: $10 875 060 000 . To pay it off, each citizen would have to give about $423.
39. The foreign debt at the beginning of 2015 of the year was around: $8,049,000,000 .
Author: Komornik
40. In this country an adult person smokes an average of 17 cigarettes a month.
Author: VViki
41. The lowest temperature: -2.8 °C was measured in Maue.
42. The highest temperature: 47.3 °C was measured in Chibuto.
Author: weather
43. The most deadly disease in this country is HIV / AIDS.
Author: medi
44. The average life expectancy in this country is 48.8 years (women – 49.9 years and men – 47.6 years).
Author: Wilga
45. In this country, women can get married at the age of 14, and men aged 16.
46. In this country, women having their first child on average 18.7 years old.
47. 10 women give birth to 52 children on average
Author: Nadia
48. The average age people living in this country is 17 years old.
49. In this country, there are around:
– 11,900,000 people (45.13%) in the age range 0-14 years.
– 13,730,000 individuals (51.96%) in the age range 15-64 years.
– 768 900 people (2.91%) over 65 years old.
50. In this country, about 1,019,000 children are born annually (3.9% of the population), and about 320,000 people die (1.2% of the population).
Author: Sara19
51. There are 494000 km2 of agricultural land in Mozambique (63% of the country).
52. 51 people in 1000 possess firearms.
53. Lichinga is the highest located city in the country.
54. In this country, formalities related to the establishment of the company last 113 days.
55. He joined the United Nations on September 16, 1975.
56. The work week is 40 hours.
Author: Statyk
57. 36% of the country’s population lives in urban areas.
58. 191620 km2 of the country is covered by forests (24.4%)
59. The last death penalty was made in 1986.
Author: Statyk
60. Mozambique ranks 110th in the ranking of the best armies in the world.
61. Number of soldiers:
– 2014 year – professional and reservists ,
– 2018 year – 11 200 professional and 0 reservists.
62. Number of equipment:
– 2018 year – 96 tanks, 335 armored vehicles, 15 jet aircraft and 5 helicopters.
63. The army was allocated in 2018 over 86,000,000 dollars.
64. The naval fleet consists of over 8 ships (2018).
Author: Wojak
65. In this country, the amount of income tax for individuals is 32%, and for companies 32% (2018).
66. The tax on goods and services is 17% (2018).
67. The level of inflation in 2018 is 4.7%.
Author: Fan%
68. Mozambique has 4,400 kg of gold reserves (2018).
Author: Vinamra