Angola 
Facts
Population: 12,263,596 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 43.7% (male 2,706,276/female 2,654,338)
15-64 years: 53.5% (male 3,339,114/female 3,225,121)
65 years and over: 2.8% (male 149,414/female 189,333) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.184% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 44.51 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 24.81 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 2.14 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.035 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.789 male(s)/female
total population: 1.021 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 184.44 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 196.55 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 171.72 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 37.63 years
male: 36.73 years
female: 38.57 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 6.27 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 3.9% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 240,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 21,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Angolan(s)
adjective: Angolan.
Ethnic groups: Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22%.
Religions: indigenous beliefs 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15% (1998 est.).
Languages: Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 67.4%
male: 82.9%
female: 54.2% (2001 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $53.06 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 15% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,400 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9.6%
industry: 65.8%
services: 24.6% (2005 est.).
Labor force: 6.393 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 85%
industry and services: 15% (2003 est.).
Population below poverty line: 70% (2003 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 13.2% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population (2001 est.).
Budget: revenues: $10.98 billion
expenditures: $9.7 billion; including capital expenditures of $963 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, manioc (tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest products; fish.
Industries: petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing; food processing, brewing, tobacco products, sugar; textiles; ship repair.
Industrial production growth rate: 13.5% (2004 est.).
Electricity - production: 2.194 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 2.04 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $35.53 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton.
Exports - partners: US 39.8%, China 29.6%, France 7.8%, Chile 5.4%, Taiwan 4.4% (2005).
Imports: $10.21 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and electrical equipment, vehicles and spare parts; medicines, food, textiles, military goods.
Imports - partners: South Korea 20.5%, Portugal 13.4%, US 12.5%, South Africa 7.4%, Brazil 7%, France 5.1%, China 5% (2005).
Debt - external: $11.24 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $383.5 million (1999).
Currency (code): kwanza (AOA).
Exchange rates: kwanza per US dollar - 80.4 (2006), 88.6 (2005), 83.541 (2004), 74.606 (2003), 43.53 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
Agora
(Independent weekly), Luanda
(government news services), Luanda
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao
Diario de Luanda
(Government-owned), Luanda
(Government-owned), Luanda
http://www.jornaldeangola.com/
Angola in the News
Richard Dowden, of London's weekly Observer, writes that Africa-watchers should not be too heartened by the recent peace deals in the continent.
One man who will not be missed is the former leader of Angola’s long-fighting rebel group, UNITA’s Jonas Savimbi, shot and killed by the Angolan army in late February. Could the former guerrilla’s death herald an era of peace and prosperity for Angola?
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