1. ForecastsMozambique

   Mozambique: 10 of 11 UN projections since 1998 expected fewer births

   The UN's 1998 projection expected 967k births a year on average for 2015–2020; the outcome was 1.13M (+17%). The latest checked one: the UN's 2022 projection expected 1.21M births for 2023; the outcome was 1.26M (+4%). "Outcome" here is the UN's own current estimate, not registration data.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Mozambique: 84% of its electricity is made without coal, gas or oil, but there is 4.6 times less of it per person than in a typical country
• Mozambique: the UN's 2010 projection did not expect births this high even by 2100
• Mozambique: women live longer than all 12 UN projections expected — by 11.1 years (median)
• Mozambique: fertility has been falling since 2011, from 5.60 to 4.76 children per woman
• Mozambique: in 13 years out of 16 the IMF expected faster growth than came
• Mozambique and Kenya: about 6.32 children per woman each in 1990, 4.76 and 3.21 in 2023

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