Mozambique already has almost 1.4 million cars on the roads

Pthe third consecutive year mozambique car park grew, with almost 1.4 million vehicles on the country's roads in 2025. It is a progress of five percent, in a year when the number of registered cars increased 14 percent, the data from the National Statistical Institute (INE) show.

According to an annual INE report, the national car park reached 1,394,893 cars in 2025, compared with 1.33,823 in 2024, an absolute increase of 61,070 vehicles recorded in one year. This is the highest value ever and corresponds to an accumulated growth of 19.7 percent compared to 1,165,457 vehicles accounted for in 2021, period analyzed in this series.

The evolution maintains a path of continuous expansion of the Mozambican car park, still facing the 1,219,314 cars in 2022 and 1.280,082 in 2023.

Continuous growth

According to the INE, the national car park grew five percent in 2022, plus five percent in 2023, four percent in 2024 and increased again five percent in 2025, approaching for the first time the bar of 1.4 million cars.

The number of registered vehicles increased significantly more than the total car park. After a fall of 12 percent in 2024, new vehicle records grew 13.7 percent by 2025, from 53.741 to 61.070 units.

The total number of records in 2025 was also higher than the 60,768 recorded in 2023 and the 56,428 recorded in 2021.

Light vehicles continued to dominate the new registers, representing 40,133 of the 61,070 vehicles registered in 2025, equivalent to about 66 percent of the total.

Heavy vehicles were the second most representative category, with 12,862 records, above the 10,648 observed in 2024. 3,707 tractors, 3,967 trailers and 401 motorcycles were also registered.

Much of the new enrollments are in the province of the capital

Maputo continued to concentrate most of the country's new car records. Maputo province accounted for 26,094 vehicles registered in 2025, plus 16,9 percent of the 22,317 registered in the previous year, representing about 43 percent of the national total, while Maputo city held second position, with 21,576 new records, above 19,770 recorded in 2024.

Together, the province and city of Maputo concentrated 78 percent of the total national park.

Outside the southern region, Sofala presented the highest number of new records, with 3,935 vehicles, followed by Cabo Delgado, with 2,863, and Nampula, with 1,941.

Data also show growth in records in virtually all provinces. The province of Cabo Delgado recorded a 57 percent rise from 1,823 to 2,863 vehicles, while Tete increased from 718 to 835 and Sofala from 3,759 to 3,935.