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Population
Population
2022:35 million people
Migration
2021: Net population inflow in 4 years
Overweight
Mortality
Traffic safety
Foreign policy
2023: Refusal to condemn Russia in Ukraine conflict
Economy
GDP $3,924 per person
Elite - Asimiladush Creoles
Angola, which has concluded a strategic alliance with the PRC and benevolent neutrality with Portugal and the EU, is considered an exemplary technocracy and, at the same time, one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. For 2020, while half of the country's population lives below the poverty line without minimum amenities, the Angolan elite bathes in luxury and is overgrown with real estate in London and Dubai. At the same time, key infrastructure is still served by foreigners, mostly the same Portuguese expats.
The fantastic riches of the Angolan elite have a different - racial - dimension. It is not customary to speak out loud, but the Angolan establishment is whiter than ordinary mortals. It is one of the few countries in Africa where asimiladush creoles - Portuguese citizens - formulated and embodied the project of an independent political nation, becoming its ethnocultural core and winning the battle with the "black" and "backward" elites of ovimbundu and bakongo. Marxism-Leninism also contributed a lot to the jump from the social elite to the political elite - after all, in the 1960s. all decent people were left-wing.
The struggle that ended only in 2002 between two worlds - the urbanized Creole coast of the MPLA, fed by offshore deposits and protected by Cuban bayonets, and the rural enclaves of UNITA, united by the totalitarian vision of Jonas Savimbi - left the country in ruins, and agriculture in minefields. Therefore, for their own survival, the victorious and now post-communist elite of the MPLA - in addition to the special services and the army - developed, first of all, fiscal authorities for a meticulous calculation of lost material funds.
With the departure of the internal and external threat, they transformed into an extensive and rather autonomous banking network from external players, saturated with petrodollars and far ahead of insurance and pension funds in development. A network insensitive to lending to the national economy and hypersensitive to fluctuations in oil prices.
Light-skinned, fabulously rich and beautifully educated, with European manners and impeccable Portuguese reprimand, the Angolan elite easily found a common language with the EU and readily came to the aid of pre-bankrupt Portugal - funds stolen from Angola and placed in Portugal were successfully reinvested in the economy of the former metropolis.
The price paid by Angola is higher than ever - since 2016, with the fall in oil prices, the Angolan economy that has not gotten off the oil needle is no longer growing, and by 2020 Kenya has already bypassed Angola as the third largest economy in Black Africa.
Financial system
External debt
2019: Debt to China - $15 billion
with theInflation
2022: Inflation in November - 16.7%
Oil production
2023: Angola withdraws from OPEC
Angola, one of the top 20 oil producing countries, announced its withdrawal from OPEC in December 2023 amid controversy over oil production quotas.
Luanda has abandoned the lower mining limit set by the group's leaders.
The role in the organisation "was not deemed appropriate," the minister says.
2021: 1.16 million bpd production
2019: Oil state-owned Sonangol Group accounts for 75% of Angola's treasury revenues
For 2019, the state-owned oil company Sonangol Group accounts for 75% of Angola's treasury revenues.
Gas production
2022: LNG exports
Agriculture
2021: Share of farmland - 47%
2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture
Consumption
Meat
2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption
Vegetables
2018: Vegetable consumption - 26 kg per capita
Power
2020: Energy consumption per capita
and2019: Electrification
Angola IT Market
2022: No start-up industry
Foreign trade
2022: China is the biggest export destination
Education
2019: Percentage of people who can read
Health care
2021: Maternity leave
in2020: Part of the population defecates on the street
Crime
Prisons
2019: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 16
2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens
Sport
2022: The most popular sport is football
inHistory
2020
The daughter is Africa's first female billionaire Isabel dos Santos.