2007	2009
Population	20,905,585	21,669,278
GDP per capita	368	440 (2008)
Agriculture value added (% of GDP)	28.10%	28.6% (2008)
Literacy rate Men	63.5% (2003)	63.5% (2003)
Literacy Rate Woman	32.7% (2003)	32.7% (2003)
Life Expectancy Men	41.4	41.83
Life Expectancy woman	40.4	40.53
Unemployment rate Inflation Rate (consumer prices)	22% 10.3% (2008)	22.1% (2008) 3.5%

UNEP, CIA fact book, World press, World Bank, Index Mundi

Mozambique is amongst the 20 poorest countries in the world, ranking 172th in the human development index in 2007. Mozambique also suffers from an unemployment rate of 22.1% (World Bank, 2008). 70% of the population lives under the poverty line (CIA factbook, 2000).

However Mozambique is also rich in minerals and has a large agricultural sector which dominates 83% of the labor force and until recently 80% of country exports (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2009). Agriculture along with infrastructure still suffers from neglect from colonial days and need investments to nurture growth in these predominant sectors.