• Job and income security-Mozambique has one of the lowest per capita GNPs in the world. In the 1980s, it fell by 1.1% annually; and by 1991, it was just $80. The average annual inflation rate was 38%. About 60% of the population lives below the poverty line.
• Ethnic and other conflicts-Since 1976, Mozambique has suffered from civil war between the Frente de Liberta~ao de Mozambique (FRELIMO) and Resistencia acional Mambicana (RE A M O ) - a guerilla group originally supported by Rhodesia and South Africa. A cease-fire was signed in October 1992. Some four million of the population of 16 million have been driven from their homes by a decade and a half of fighting. In 1992, 1.7 million of them were refugees in other countries.
o Military spending-Between 1983 and 1992, the country imported $42.5 million worth of major conventional arms. In 1990, per capita arms imports were $27, and the country had 180 military personnel for every doctor.