Purchasing Power Parity · Mozambique
Cost of living in 🇲🇿 Mozambique vs the United States
Mozambique has a US-relative price level of 0.376 (US = 1.0) — about 62% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2024.
What US salaries are worth in Mozambique
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $132,979 | $18,800 |
| $80,000 | $212,766 | $30,080 |
| $120,000 | $319,149 | $45,120 |
| $180,000 | $478,723 | $67,680 |
| $250,000 | $664,894 | $94,000 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Mozambique's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.376 2024
World Bank — GDP 0.385 2024
IMF (WEO) 0.384 2024
Penn World Table 0.367 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.393 2024
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Mozambique is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast — price level 0.375
- 🇨🇴 Colombia — price level 0.378
- 🇲🇺 Mauritius — price level 0.378
- 🇧🇼 Botswana — price level 0.379
- 🇬🇦 Gabon — price level 0.372
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Mozambique compared to the United States?
- Mozambique has a price level of 0.376 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 62% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2024.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Mozambique?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $265,957 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Mozambique; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $37,600.
- Where does the Mozambique cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.