Merchandise trade balance
-1.66US$ bn▼ 65.3% vs 2024
Latest observation 2025
- Latest
- -1.66
- Change
- +25.3%
- Year on year
- +65.3%
- High
- -0.99 2017
- Low
- -6.37 2022
- Average
- -2.92
- Volatility
- 67.6%
Merchandise trade balance is -1.66 US$ bn (2025), 25.3% higher than in 2010. Over the last year: +65.3%.
What is this?
Exports minus imports of goods.
How to read it
Negative is a deficit: the country bought more goods than it sold. A deficit is not automatically bad when it reflects investment imports for future production.
Unit: US$ bn.
What does the data say?
Merchandise trade balance is -1.66 US$ bn (2025), 25.3% higher than in 2010. Over the last year: +65.3%.
Over all 15 observations since 2010, the highest was -0.99 (2017) and the lowest -6.37 (2022).
Why does it matter?
- Households: Persistent deficits can pressure the metical.
- Businesses: Currency availability.
- Government: External financing.
- Investors: External balance.
- Mobile money: Indirect.
Observed facts are above; these are possible implications, not measured effects.
What should I watch?
Data source
- Source
- UN Comtrade (public API), reported by Mozambique
- Frequency
- Annual
- Observations
- 15 (2010 – 2025)
- Last retrieved
- 2026-10-17
- Method
- Merchandise trade as reported by Mozambique's customs. Exports are FOB, imports CIF. Services, and the broader balance of payments, are not included.
- Limitations
- Annual; the latest year can be revised. Values are in current US dollars, so they move with prices as well as volumes.
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