Distillers Country guides / Mozambique
Mozambique
A one-page guide to Mozambique for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Maputo
- Official languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Mozambican metical (MZN)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 (CAT)
- Area
- 801,590 km²
People
- Population
- 35.6 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 2.8% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 37.2%
- Aged under 15
- 44.2%
- Aged 65 and over
- 2.7%
- Life expectancy
- 63.8 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$22.3 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$627 (2025)
- Economic growth
- -0.5% (2025)
- Inflation
- 4.4% (2025)
Climate
Tropical: wet season October to March, dry season April to September; cyclones are common in the wet season, which affects port and road logistics.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 (Decree 54/2013, Article 5, as cited by Wikipedia)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 2.1 litres of pure alcohol (2019)
- What people drink
- Beer 72.1%, wine 10.4%, spirits 14.4%, other 3.2% (2019)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); CDM (Wikipedia); Mozambique (Wikipedia); Legal drinking age; World Bank country data; WHO Global status report on alcohol and health 2024 (via Wikipedia table); UN Comtrade public API, HS 2208; The Business Year - Diageo Supply Marracuene interview (c.2014-15). Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.