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Capital:
Maputo
Government:
Republic
Current Head of Government:
Filipe Nyusi
Economy:
- Dependent upon foreign assistance for more than half of its annual budget.
- Subsistence agriculture continues to employ the vast majority of the country’s work force and smallholder agricultural productivity and productivity growth is weak.
Population:
30,888,034 (July 2021 est.)
Land Size:
812,379 sq km (313,661 sq miles)
Major Ethnic Groups:
- Makhuwa
- Tsonga
- Lomwe
- Sena
- Europeans: 0.06%
- Euro-Africans: 0.2%
- Indians: 0.08%
Religions:
- Catholicism: 28.4%
- Protestantism: 27.7% (Zionist Christian: 15.5%, Evangelical Pentecostal: 10.9%, Anglican: 1.3%)
- Islam: 17.9%
- Other: 7.2%
- None: 18.8%
Languages(s):
- Emakhuwa: 25.3%
- Portuguese (official): 10.7%
- Xichangana: 10.3%
- Cisena: 7.5%
- Elomwe: 7.0%
- Echuwabo: 5.1%
- Other Mozambican languages: 30.1%
- Other: 4.0%