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|post            = Prime Minister
|body            = Mozambique
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|insigniacaption = [[Emblem of Mozambique]]
|nativename      = 
|image           =
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|incumbent       = [[Maria Benvinda Levy]]
|incumbentsince  = 15 January 2025
|style           = 
|residence       = 
|appointer       = [[List of presidents of Mozambique|President of Mozambique]]
|termlength      = 
|formation       = {{start date and age|df=y|1986|7|17}}
|succession      = 
|inaugural       = [[Mário da Graça Machungo]]
|deputy          = 
|salary          = 
|website         = {{url|www.portaldogoverno.gov.mz}}
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This article lists the '''prime ministers of [[Mozambique]]''', since the establishment of the office of prime minister of [[Portuguese Mozambique]] in 1974.

The current prime minister is [[Maria Benvinda Levy]]. She assumed the office on 15 January 2025.

==Prime ministers of Mozambique (1974–present)==
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| officeholder_title = Prime Minister
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|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan=8| [[Portuguese Mozambique]]
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 1
| image             = Joaquim Chissano.jpg
| officeholder      = [[Joaquim Chissano]]
| officeholder_sort = Chissano, Joaquim
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1939
| died_year         = 
| term_start        = 20 September 1974
| term_end          = 25 June 1975
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|1974|09|20|1975|06|25}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = —
}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan=8| [[People's Republic of Mozambique]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan=8| ''Post abolished (25 June 1975 – 17 July 1986)''
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 1
| image             = 
| officeholder      = [[Mário da Graça Machungo]]
| officeholder_sort = Machungo, Mário
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1940
| died_year         = 2020
| term_start        = 17 July 1986
| term_end          = 1 December 1990
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|1986|07|17|1990|12|01}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = —
}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan=8| [[Mozambique|Republic of Mozambique]]
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = (1)
| image             = 
| officeholder      = [[Mário da Graça Machungo]]
| officeholder_sort = Machungo, Mário
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1940
| died_year         = 2020
| term_start        = 1 December 1990
| term_end          = 16 December 1994
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|1990|12|01|1994|12|16}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = —
}}
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 2
| image             = 
| officeholder      = [[Pascoal Mocumbi]]
| officeholder_sort = Mocumbi, Pascoal
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1941
| died_year         = 2023
| term_start        = 16 December 1994
| term_end          = 17 February 2004
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|1994|12|16|2004|02|17}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = [[1994 Mozambican general election|1994]]
| election2         = [[1999 Mozambican general election|1999]]
}}
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 3
| image             = Luisa Dias Diogo - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2009 crop.jpg
| officeholder      = [[Luísa Diogo]]
| officeholder_sort = Diogo, Luísa
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1958
| died_year         = 
| term_start        = 17 February 2004
| term_end          = 16 January 2010
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|2004|02|17|2010|01|16}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = [[2004 Mozambican general election|2004]]
}}
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 4
| image             = Aires Ali.jpg
| officeholder      = [[Aires Ali]]
| officeholder_sort = Ali, Aires
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1955
| died_year         = 
| term_start        = 16 January 2010
| term_end          = 8 October 2012
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|2010|01|16|2012|10|08}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = [[2009 Mozambican general election|2009]]
}}
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 5
| image             = Alberto Vaquina.jpg
| officeholder      = [[Alberto Vaquina]]
| officeholder_sort = Vaquina, Alberto
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1961
| died_year         = 
| term_start        = 8 October 2012
| term_end          = 17 January 2015
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|2012|10|08|2015|01|17}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = —
}}
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 6
| image             = Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario.JPG
| officeholder      = [[Carlos Agostinho do Rosário]]
| officeholder_sort = Rosário, Carlos
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1954
| died_year         = 
| term_start        = 17 January 2015
| term_end          = 3 March 2022
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|2015|01|17|2022|3|3}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = [[2014 Mozambican general election|2014]]
| election2         = [[2019 Mozambican general election|2019]]
}}
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 7
| image             = Adriano Maleiane.jpg
| officeholder      = [[Adriano Maleiane]]
| officeholder_sort = Maleiane, Adriano
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1949
| died_year         = 
| term_start        = 3 March 2022
| term_end          = 15 January 2025
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|2022|3|3|2025|1|15}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO
| election          = —
}}
{{Officeholder table
| order2            = 8
| image             = 
| officeholder      = [[Maria Benvinda Levy]]
| officeholder_sort = Levy, Maria
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1969
| died_year         = 
| term_start        = 15 January 2025
| timeinoffice      = {{ayd|2025|1|15}}
| alt_party         = FRELIMO 
| election          = [[2024 Mozambican general election|2024]]
}}
{{Officeholder table end}}

==Timeline==
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  from: 20/09/1974 till: 25/06/1975 color:frelimo text:"[[Joaquim Chissano]]"
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  from: 17/07/1986 till: 16/12/1994 color:frelimo text:"[[Mário da Graça Machungo]]"
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  from: 16/12/1994 till: 17/02/2004 color:frelimo text:"[[Pascoal Mocumbi]]"
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  from: 17/02/2004 till: 16/01/2010 color:frelimo text:"[[Luísa Diogo]]"
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  from: 16/01/2010 till: 08/10/2012 color:frelimo text:"[[Aires Ali]]"
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  from: 08/10/2012 till: 17/01/2015 color:frelimo text:"[[Alberto Vaquina]]"
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  from: 17/01/2015 till: 03/03/2022 color:frelimo text:"[[Carlos Agostinho do Rosário]]"
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  from: 03/03/2022 till: 15/01/2025 color:frelimo text:"[[Adriano Maleiane]]"
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  from: 15/01/2025 till: $today     color:frelimo text:"[[Maria Benvinda Levy]]"

}}

==See also==
{{Politics of Mozambique}}
* [[List of presidents of Mozambique]]
* [[List of colonial governors of Mozambique]]
* [[List of heads of the National Resistance Government of Mozambique]]

==Sources==
* http://rulers.org/rulm2.html#mozambique
* http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mozambique.htm
* '''''African States and Rulers''', John Stewart, McFarland''
* '''''Guinness Book of Kings, Rulers & Statesmen''', Clive Carpenter, Guinness Superlatives Ltd''
* '''''Heads of State and Government, 2nd Edition''', John V da Graca, MacMillan Press 2000''

==References==
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{{Prime ministers of Mozambique}}
{{Mozambique topics}}
{{Years in Mozambique}}
{{Heads of state and government of African states}}

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