Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Mozambique

65.0% of people in Mozambique lived below the national poverty line in 2022.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 1996 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Mozambique, 2022 65.0% % of population
Change from 2019 −3.2percentage points 2019: 68.2%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Mozambique over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2002 to 2022
Period Mozambique
2022 65.0%
2019 68.2%
2014 48.4%
2008 58.7%
2002 60.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 68.2% in 2019, a change of −3.2 percentage points.
  • Since 1996, when it was 69.4%, the figure has changed by −4.4 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1996 to 2022 for Mozambique
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources