Official Languages

Portuguese · Portuguese (Brazilian)

Languages spoken here

Chichewa (secondary) · Gujarati (secondary) · Hindi (secondary) · Kabuverdianu (secondary) · Korean (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Mozambican Sign Language (secondary) · Nyanja (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Russian (secondary) · Russian (Pre-1918) (secondary) · Swahili (secondary) · Yao (Africa) (secondary) · Zulu (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Mozambique

Peoples

Largest first.

PeoplePopulationLanguageReligion
Tsonga5971000 TsongaChristianity
Makhuwa-Makhuwana4864000 MakhuwaEthnic Religions
Lomwe3583000 LomweChristianity
Sena2886000 SenaChristianity
Nyanja, Chewa1834000 ChichewaChristianity
Makhuwa-Meetto1663000 Makhuwa-MeettoEthnic Religions
Chopi1564000 ChopiEthnic Religions
Tswa1422000 TswaEthnic Religions
Chwabo1379000 ChuwabuEthnic Religions
Makhuwa-Shirima1036000 Makhuwa-ShirimaEthnic Religions
Senji995000 NdauEthnic Religions
Ronga877000 RongaChristianity
Marenje836000 MarenjeChristianity
Makonde746000 MakondeIslam
Nyungwe697000 NyungweEthnic Religions
Makhuwa-Moniga500000 Makhuwa-MonigaEthnic Religions
Makhuwa-Marrevone497000 Makhuwa-MarrevoneEthnic Religions
Makhuwa-Saka491000 Makhuwa-SakaEthnic Religions
Makhuwa-Nahara483000 MakhuwaIslam
Takwane418000 TakwaneEthnic Religions
Tewe415000 TeweEthnic Religions
Lolo375000 LoloEthnic Religions
Tonga, Gitonga371000 Tonga (Mozambique)Ethnic Religions
Yao338000 YaoIslam
Manyawa249000 ManyawaChristianity
Nsenga234000 NsengaEthnic Religions
Kokola185000 KokolaChristianity
Manyika166000 ManyikaEthnic Religions
Mwani166000 MwaniIslam
Koti159000 KotiIslam
Deaf154000 Mozambican Sign LanguageUnknown
Tawara125000 TawaraEthnic Religions
Sakaji, Nathembo63000 NathemboIslam
Xingoni60000 XingoniIslam
Makwe57000 MakweIslam
Hindi53000 HindiHinduism
Gujarati53000 GujaratiHinduism
Maindo49000 MaindoEthnic Religions
Korean49000 KoreanChristianity
Barwe39000 BarweEthnic Religions
Ndau, Shona32000 NdauEthnic Religions
Han Chinese, Mandarin28000 Chinese, MandarinNon-Religious
Portuguese, Mozambicans28000 PortugueseChristianity
Swahili25000 SwahiliIslam
Phimbi15000 PhimbiEthnic Religions
Greek14000 GreekChristianity
Kunda12000 KundaEthnic Religions
Dema12000 DemaEthnic Religions
Ndonde9700 MakondeIslam
Zulu6800 ZuluChristianity

Languages

49 languages recorded here.

Barwe
Chichewa
Chinese, Mandarin
Chopi
Chuwabu
Dema
Greek
Gujarati
Hindi
Kabuverdianu
Kokola
Korean
Koti
Kunda
Lolo
Lomwe
Maindo
Makhuwa
Makhuwa-Marrevone
Makhuwa-Meetto
Makhuwa-Moniga
Makhuwa-Saka
Makhuwa-Shirima
Makonde
Makwe
Manyawa
Manyika
Marenje
Mozambican Sign Language
Mwani
Nathembo
Ndau
Nsenga
Nyungwe
Phimbi
Portuguese
Ronga
Russian
Sena
Swahili
Takwane
Tawara
Tewe
Tonga (Mozambique)
Tsonga
Tswa
Xingoni
Yao
Zulu

All catalogue fields

157 fields recorded
rog3
MZ
iso3
MOZ
iso2
MZ
ctry
Mozambique
poplpeoples
36293000
cntpeoples
52
cntpeopleslr
12
poplpeopleslr
3961000
jpscalectry
5
rol3officiallanguage
por
officiallang
Portuguese
rlg3primary
1
religionprimary
Christianity
percentchristianity
45.843849820044
percentevangelical
10.761277382793
c_10_40window
N
rog2
AFR
continent
Africa
regioncode
7
regionname
Africa, East and Southern
workersneeded
79
harvest_rog3
MZ
harvest_iso3
MOZ
harvest_iso2
MZ
harvest_owcountrycode
MOZA
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode
MZ
harvest_countrynumber
145
harvest_ctry
Mozambique
harvest_ctryshort
Mozambique
harvest_countrynamechinese
莫桑比克
harvest_countrynamechineseshort
莫桑比克
harvest_countrynamedutch
Mozambique
harvest_countrynamefrench
Mozambique
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort
Mozambique
harvest_countrynamegerman
Mosambik
harvest_countrynamegermanshort
Mosambik
harvest_countrynameindonesian
Mozambik
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort
Mozambik
harvest_countrynameitalian
Mozambico
harvest_countrynameitalianshort
Mozambico
harvest_countrynamekorean
모잠비크
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort
모잠비크
harvest_countrynamenorwegian
Mosambik
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort
Mosambik
harvest_countrynameportuguese
Moçambique
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort
Moçambique
harvest_countrynamerussian
Мозамбик
harvest_countrynamerussianshort
Мозамбик
harvest_countrynamespanish
Mozambique
harvest_countrynamespanishshort
Mozambique
harvest_countrynamevietnamese
Mozambique
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort
Mozambique
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix
du
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix
in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix
di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix
-
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix
i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix
em
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix
B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix
en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix
harvest_ethnologuemapexists
Y
harvest_rog2
AFR
harvest_regioncode2414
6
harvest_regioncode
7
harvest_unsr
014
harvest_worldabc
B
harvest_maniregioncode
AP
harvest_capital
Maputo
harvest_population
35632000
harvest_populationsource
UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo
https://prayercast.com/mozambique.html
harvest_waldnerguide
prayer-guide-mz.pdf
harvest_unmap
https://un.org/geospatial/content/mozambique-1
harvest_persecutionrankingod
39
harvest_persecutionrankingodlink
https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/mozambique
harvest_jpscale
5
harvest_c_10_40window
N
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal
N
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank
31
harvest_bibleshortagerank
8
harvest_bibleaccessurl
https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/MZ_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang
11.1
harvest_owpctcharismatic
11.744609
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate
5.4000001
harvest_owcountrypage
mozambique
harvest_literacyrate
61
harvest_literacysource
Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized
36
harvest_rol3officiallanguage
por
harvest_rlg3primary
1
harvest_rlg4primary
2
harvest_pctanimist
32.08
harvest_pctbahai
0
harvest_pctbuddhism
0
harvest_pctchinese
0
harvest_pcthindu
0.04
harvest_pctislam
18.6
harvest_pctsikh
0
harvest_pctjudaism
0
harvest_pctnonreligious
2.8
harvest_pctother
0
harvest_pctchristian
46.48
harvest_pctchristianprotestant
10.9
harvest_pctchristianindependent
19.03
harvest_pctchristiananglican
0.52
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic
20.59
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic
0
harvest_pctchristianmarginal
0.51
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated
1.68
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing
-6.750000021362346
harvest_pctchristianother
0
harvest_pctchristianextra
0
harvest_rop1
A013
harvest_hdiyear
2015
harvest_hdivalue
0.418
harvest_hdirank
181
harvest_internetusers
17.5
harvest_flashmapzoom
300
harvest_flashmapzoomx
-114
harvest_flashmapzoomy
-149
harvest_googlemapzoom
4
harvest_googlemaplat
-18.9
harvest_googlemaplng
35
harvest_ctrylatitude
-18.665695
harvest_ctrylongitude
35.529562
harvest_securitylevel
2
harvest_ethnolinguisticmap
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/mozambique_ethnic_1973.jpg
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/mozambique/
harvest_provincesdisplayable
Y
harvest_adm1label
Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode
101
harvest_poplgrowthrate
2.737296094048903
harvest_godreportsurl
http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=mz&joshua=mz
harvest_datareportalurl
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-mozambique
harvest_internetusage
10
harvest_internetusagesourceyear
2017
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl
https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/mozambique/
harvest_biblesocietyurl
http://biblesociety-mozambique.org/
harvest_areasquaremiles
309494
harvest_areasquarekilometers
799380
harvest_populationpersquaremile
64
harvest_countryphonecode
258
harvest_owpctchristian1986
21
harvest_owpctevangelical1986
4.5
harvest_owpctchristian1993
27.8
harvest_owpctevangelical1993
8.9
harvest_owpctchristian2001
57.65000000000001
harvest_owpctevangelical2001
13.5
harvest_religiondatayear
2010
harvest_internetctrycode
.mz
harvest_worldfactbookurl
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/mozambique
harvest_source
pjj
harvest_editname
BM
harvest_editdate
09/12/02 00:00:00