<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Mozambique<nl>Economy</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> One of Africa's poorest countries, Mozambique has failed to exploit the economic potential of its sizable agricultural, hydropower, and transportation resources. Indeed, national output, consumption, and investment declined throughout the first half of the 1980s because of internal disorders, lack of government administrative control, and a growing foreign debt. A sharp increase in foreign aid, attracted by an economic reform policy, resulted in successive years of economic growth in the late 1980s, but aid has declined steadily since 1989. Agricultural output is at only 75% of its 1981 level, and grain has to be imported. Industry operates at only 20-40% of capacity. The economy depends heavily on foreign assistance to keep afloat. Peace accords signed in October 1992 improved chances of foreign investment, aided IMF-supported economic reforms, and supported continued economic recovery.
<item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—purchasing power equivalent—$9.8 billion (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> 4.1% (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $600 (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Agriculture:</hi> accounts for 50% of GDP and about 90% of exports; cash crops—cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, shrimp; other crops—cassava, corn, rice, tropical fruits; not self-sufficient in food
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<item>• <hi format=ital>recipient:</hi> US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $350 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $4.4 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $37 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $890 million