Maputo, March 17, 2026 (Lusa) - Mozambique imported the equivalent of US$1 million (€865,000) worth of motor vehicles per day in the first nine months of 2025, according to official data on a vehicle fleet that continues to grow strongly.

 Updated statistics from the Bank of Mozambique show that the country imported US$259.5 million (€224.5 million) worth of motor vehicles from January to September, including US$89.7 million (€77.6 million) in the third quarter alone.

Mozambique has no domestic car production, and these imports totalled US$369.3 million (€319.5 million) for the whole of 2022, US$421 million (€364 million) in 2023, and $386.8 million (€334.6 million) in 2024.

Mozambique’s vehicle fleet grew by 4.2% in 2024, exceeding 1.3 million vehicles, driven by passenger cars, but almost half were concentrated in the city of Maputo, according to official figures.

According to data from Mozambique’s National Statistics Institute (INE), the country had 1.27 million vehicles in 2023.

In 2024, a new record of 1.32 million vehicles was set, with only 564,525 registered in the city of Maputo and 496,707 in Maputo Province, which excludes the area of the Mozambican capital.

The fleet consisting solely of light vehicles in Mozambique reached 897,273, having grown by 12% from 2021 to 2024, equivalent to almost 100,000 more cars on the road in the country in the last year analysed by INE.

Also in 2024, Mozambique had 267,792 heavy goods vehicles, 16,158 tractors and 100,695 motorcycles on the road, according to the INE survey.

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