Merchandise imports
9.45US$ bn▲ 2.6% vs 2024
Latest observation 2025
- Latest
- 9.45
- Change
- +165.1%
- Year on year
- +2.6%
- High
- 14.67 2022
- Low
- 3.56 2010
- Average
- 8.18
- Volatility
- 36.3%
Merchandise imports is 9.45 US$ bn (2025), 165.1% higher than in 2010. Over the last year: +2.6%.
What is this?
The value of goods Mozambique bought abroad.
How to read it
Fuel, food, machinery and vehicles dominate. Gas project construction raises imports for a few years.
Unit: US$ bn.
What does the data say?
Merchandise imports is 9.45 US$ bn (2025), 165.1% higher than in 2010. Over the last year: +2.6%.
Over all 15 observations since 2010, the highest was 14.67 (2022) and the lowest 3.56 (2010).
Why does it matter?
- Households: Prices of imported fuel and food.
- Businesses: Input costs.
- Government: Customs revenue.
- Investors: Currency pressure.
- 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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