n Mozambican
refugees, who fled to Malawi, Zimbabwa, and South Africa in earlier
years from the civil war, had returned; an estimated 100,000 refugees
remain to be repatriated from those countries

Infant mortality rate: 126 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 48.95 years
male: 47.04 years
female: 50.92 years (1995 est.)

Total fertility rate: 6.19 children born/woman (1995 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Mozambican(s)
adjective: Mozambican

Ethnic divisions: indigenous tribal groups, Europeans about 10,000,
Euro-Africans 35,000, Indians 15,000

Religions: indigenous beliefs 60%, Christian 30%, Muslim 10%

Languages: Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 33%
male: 45%
female: 21%

Labor force: NA
by occupation: 90% engaged in agriculture

@Mozambique:Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Mozambique
conventional short form: Mozambique
local long form: Republica Popular de Mocambique
local short form: Mocambique

Digraph: MZ

Type: republic

Capital: Maputo

Administrative divisions: 10 provinces (provincias, singular -
provincia); Cabo Delgado, Gaza, Inhambane, Manica, Maputo, Nampula,
Niassa, Sofala, Tete, Zambezia

Independence: 25 June 1975 (from Portugal)

National holiday: Independence Day, 25 June (1975)

Constitution: 30 November 1990

Legal system: based on Portuguese civil law system and customary law

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

Executive branch:
chief of state: President Joaquim Alberto CHISSANO (since 6 November
1986)
head of government: Prime Minister Pascoal MOCUMBI (since December
1994)
cabinet: Cabinet

Legislative branch: unicameral
Assembly of the Republic (Assembleia da Republica): draft electoral
law provides for periodic, direct presidential and Assembly elections
note: as called for in the 1992 peace accords, presidential and
legislative elections took place during 27-29 October 1994; fourteen
parties, including the Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO)
participated; Joaquim Alberto CHISSANO was elected president and his
FRELIMO party gathered a slim majority in the 250 seat legislature

Judicial branch: Supreme Court

Political parties and leaders: Front for the Liberation of Mozambique
(FRELIMO), Joaquim Alberto CHISSANO, chairman; the ruling party since
in