Income percentiles in Mozambique
Where each yearly income band starts in Mozambique, in MZN, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under MZN 15,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from MZN 120,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from MZN 430,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is MZN 33,000 – MZN 42,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Mozambique, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under MZN 15,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | MZN 15,000 – MZN 24,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | MZN 24,000 – MZN 33,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | MZN 33,000 – MZN 42,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | MZN 42,000 – MZN 58,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | MZN 58,000 – MZN 75,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | MZN 75,000 – MZN 120,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | MZN 120,000 – MZN 180,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | MZN 180,000 – MZN 310,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | MZN 310,000 – MZN 430,000 |
| Top 1% | MZN 430,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.45, the people one worker's income stands for in Mozambique, so a person can place their own income.
In Mozambique the distribution is measured on consumption, not income. The two are not interchangeable, and the multiplier does not turn one into the other.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 2004 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 0% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 2 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- MZN (MZN)
Why: only 0% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Mozambique measures
- Your place: which of the bands above your income is in now, against the band it was in a year ago, read as a position in the income distribution of Mozambique itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Mozambique taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Mozambique is measured against Mozambique alone.
A band is a range, so a move inside one band does not register, and published distributions understate the very top. The confidence level above travels onto every card measured here.