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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 the
Inflation
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
Power
2020: Energy consumption per capita
and
2019: Electrification
Angola IT Market
2022: No start-up industry
Railways
Corridor Lobitu
Against the backdrop of the growing confrontation between the collective West and the West in 2024 Beijing , the To Africa Washington development of African infrastructure, thanks to which Chinese companies were successful, is becoming critical.
The main project in this direction is considered the "Lobitu Corridor" - a railway connecting the Angolan port of Lobitu with Zambia and the DRC, which have critical resources. Among them is coltan, which is an important component of modern electronics.
This route, which provides access to the ocean from the depths of the continent, was laid at the beginning of the 20th century. It developed successfully until the 1970s, until the Angolan Civil War broke out, causing traffic to decline and the track itself to be significantly damaged.
In 2006, the authorities of China and Angola agreed to repair the tracks, in exchange for Angolan oil. After 8 years, the project was completed and put into operation, although cargo transportation turned out to be less than planned.
The Chinese authorities invested $2 billion in the project, expecting the Angolan authorities to support Chinese claims for the subsequent operation of the route. However, with the change of president in 2018, Angola began to actively drift towards the United States, vividly formalizing a new vector of foreign policy in 2022.
Later, with the development of competition between Beijing and Washington in the rare earth metals and high technology mining sector, the collective West became increasingly interested in the DRC, Zambia and Angola. Their efforts were not in vain and at the end of 2023, a European-American conglomerate received a 30-year concession to modernize the Lobitu Corridor.
The Chinese authorities, having lost the promised concession, took up the development of other projects. So in February, Beijing received a license to upgrade the TAZARA railway connecting Zambia with the major East African port of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania.
For Washington, the Lobitu Corridor is the first infrastructure project in Africa that they have taken seriously, adopting China's experience.
Foreign trade
2022: China is the biggest export destination
Consumption
2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption
2019: Low rice consumption: 19.6 kg per person per year
2018: Vegetable consumption - 26 kg per capita
Education
2019: Percentage of people who can read
Health care
2021: Maternity leave
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2020
Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave from 3 to 5.9 months
Part of the population defecates on the street
Cinema
The first feature film in Portuguese-speaking Africa is the Angolan drama Sambizanga (1972), which tells about the beginning of the struggle for independence. The picture was so successful that it is still considered one of the main works of African cinema.
However, it can be considered fully Angolan with a big stretch: the shooting took place in the midst of the war of independence in neighboring Congo-Brazzaville, the director Sarah Maldoror (a student of the Soviet film director Mark Donskoy) was a French citizen from Guadeloupe, and the main roles along with Angolan dissidents were played by immigrants from other countries (Caboverdian Eliza Andrade played the central female role).
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
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History
2020
The daughter is Africa's first female billionaire Isabel dos Santos.
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