
Mozambique is 168th in a list of 174 countries ranked by the Human
Development Index (2000).
It has a population of 19.3 million.
Infant mortality is around 115 per 1000
(1999).
Life expectancy was estimated in the
year 2000 to be 39. Without Aids, it would be 50.
GDP is $782 per year.
Spending on health care is around 4.6%
of GDP.
Adult literacy is only 43%.
Number of people considered to be Hiv
positive, or with full-blown Aids, who were alive at the end of
1999: 1.2 million, of whom 630,000 are adult women.
Proportion of adults infected with the
Hiv virus: 13.2%
Number of people who died of Aids in
1999: approx. 98,000.
Number of children (between 0 and 14
years) Hiv positive or with Aids, who were alive at the end of 1999:
52,000
Children who have been made orphans as result of Aids since the
outbreak of the epidemic: 310,000.
Children who have been made orphans as result of Aids since the
outbreak of the epidemic, and who are still alive: 248,177.
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