Mozambique
Republic of Mozambique
- Capital
- Maputo
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 36 million
- Currency
- MZN
- Area
- 801,590 km²
Across Mozambique's 4 priced cities, one person needs about $1,053 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $329.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%24
- Safety20%39
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%77
- Connectivity10%22
- Cost10%70
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 32%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Corporate tax
- 32%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 16%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 3%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 4%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 39.0
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 61.0
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2011
- 3.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #116 worldwide
- 50
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +66%
Cities in Mozambique
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Xai-Xai | 62 | 40.8 | — | — | — | 154.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Maxixe | 61 | — | — | — | — | 126.4K | Low confidence |
| 3Nampula | 59 | 37.4 | — | — | — | 770.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 4Chimoio | 58 | — | — | — | — | 422K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Gurúè | 57 | — | — | — | — | 169K | Low confidence |
| 6Nacala | 57 | — | — | — | — | 239.8K | Low confidence |
| 7Ressano Garcia | 57 | — | — | — | — | 110K | Low confidence |
| 8Beira | 57 | — | — | — | — | 687.8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 9Mandimba | 57 | — | — | — | — | 118.9K | Low confidence |
| 10Angoche | 57 | — | — | — | — | 104.5K | Low confidence |
| 11Quelimane | 56 | — | — | — | — | 349.8K | Low confidence |
| 12Pemba | 55 | — | — | — | — | 232.9K | Low confidence |
| 13Mocuba | 55 | — | — | — | — | 196K | Low confidence |
| 14Tete | 55 | — | — | — | — | 357K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Lichinga | 55 | — | — | — | — | 281.3K | Low confidence |
| 16Matola | 47 | 36.8 | $469 | $313 | 35.0 | 1.2M | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 17Maputo | 47 | 41.4 | $544 | $329 | 32.2 | 1.3M | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 18Inhambane | — | — | — | — | — | 95.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 19Chinde | — | — | — | — | — | 17.6K | Low confidence |