- ISO 3166
MZ- Main language + region
pt-MZ- Currency
- MZN · Mozambican Metical
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Mozambique
Mozambique has 33.4M people, and 6.8M of them are online. Portuguese is the most widely spoken language at 27%, one of 10 languages CLDR lists here. Portuguese is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to pt-MZ.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
6.8M
0%world median 81%100%
21% of 33.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$627
Higher than 2% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
54%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
10
Portuguese 27% · Makhuwa 13% · Ndau 9.9%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
465
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
56%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Mozambique
share of 33.4M people
- Portugueseofficial27%9M
- Makhuwa13%4.3M
- Ndau9.9%3.3M
- Tsonga7.9%2.6M
- Lomwe6.8%2.3M
- Sena4.6%1.5M
- Makhuwa-Meetto4.5%1.5M
- Ronga3.4%1.1M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 2 more languages sit below the top eight, at 5% combined.
CLDR records Portuguese in 15 territories and 249.5M speakers in total; Mozambique holds 4% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Portuguese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (pt-MZ).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
1234,56 MTn
1,234.56 in MZN · Mozambican Metical