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Each Mozambican family spent an average of 8,661 meticais (123.5 euros) per month in 2022, an increase of 6.8% compared to 2020, according to data from the according to data from the Family Budget Survey (IOF), released on Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE)..
According to the study, this performance was essentially influenced by households living in rural areas, which went from an average monthly expense of 5,741 meticais (81.90 euros) in 2019/ 2020, to 6,680 meticais (95.30 euros), in 2022.
The average monthly expense per household living in the urban area remained virtually unchanged, at just over 12,500 meticais (178.30 euros).
In national terms, the province of Cabo Delgado, affected in the last five years by terrorist attacks that displaced more than one million people, had the lowest average monthly expense per family, equivalent to 5,213 meticais (74.40 euros), while the families from the provinces of Maputo, Manica, Sofala, as well as the capital, Maputo, spent “above the national average”.
Despite leading the way, the average monthly expenses of each household in the city of Maputo continue to fall, according to the IOF indicator, from 25,912 meticais (369.5 euros), in 2015, to 19,664 meticais (280.40 euros), in 2020, and further down to 17,076 meticais (243.50 euros) last year.
In terms of the national average, the expenditure that most weighed on each Mozambican family was related to food products and non-alcoholic beverages, with 3,358 meticais (47.90 euros) per month, followed by housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels , with 1,489 meticais (21.20 euros) per month, and transport, with 980 meticais (14 euros).
At national level, the data also show that, in general, the structure of income remained the same between 2020 and 2022, with the main source of income for households being their salaries (36.4%), followed by the amount corresponding to self-consumption (25.1%) and sales of products produced by the family (20.4%).
After disaggregating income by area of residence, the results of the IOF 2022 “show that the gap between the income of the urban population and the rural population remained over the two periods”, with the income of families living in the urban area valued at 13,771 meticais [196.40 euros], almost double the income of those living in the rural area, of 7,440 meticais [106.1 euros], although both with “a considerable increase, in relation to the amounts calculated” in 2020.
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