By the end of 2025, the number of Mozambicans will increase to 34 million, of which 16.5 million will be men and 17.5 million women, a difference of one million people. The projection comes from the National Statistics Institute (INE), which also points out that 11.9 million of the population will be living in urban areas and 22 million in rural areas.

According to INE data, quoted by Letter from Mozambique"By the end of this year, 14 million Mozambicans will be between the ages of 0 and 14, 16 million between the ages of 15 and 49 and 18 million between the ages of 15 and 59".

In the same publication, INE revealed that the current population growth rate is 2.5%, life expectancy at birth is 56.5 years, the crude death rate is around 11.5%, the crude birth rate (per thousand people) is 36.5 people, the infant mortality rate (per thousand) is 62.8 children and the fertility rate (children per woman) is 4.8 children.

In the 2017 population census, INE counted 27 million Mozambicans, of which 13.3 million were men and 14.5 million were women, and of the total, 33.4% lived in cities and 66.6% in rural areas.

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