Mozambique

Mozambique is a poor but resource-rich southeastern African economy, dependent on agriculture and increasingly on vast offshore natural-gas discoveries that promise to transform its prospects.

Decades after a long civil war, the country remains among the world's poorest, and a major gas project in the north has been disrupted by a jihadist insurgency.

Key Sectors

The economy rests on agriculture (most of the workforce), aluminum smelting, coal and gas, and the promise of huge liquefied-natural-gas projects, alongside a strategic transit role for landlocked neighbors.