| Location: | South-eastern Africa, bordering the Mozambique Channel, between South Africa and Tanzania |
| Population: | 17,479,266
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected; the 1997 Mozambican census reported a population of 16,099,246 (July 2003 est.) |
| Capital: | Maputo |
| GDP per capita: | purchasing power parity - $1,000 (2002 est.) |
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