Mozambique Poverty Rate 1996-2025

Mozambique poverty rate for 2019 was 96.10%, a 2.5% increase from 2014.
  • Mozambique poverty rate for 2014 was 93.60%, a 3.4% decline from 2008.
  • Mozambique poverty rate for 2008 was 97.00%, a 0.5% decline from 2002.
  • Mozambique poverty rate for 2002 was 97.50%, a 0.3% increase from 1996.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.