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2020/01/10 08:46:30

Angola

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The main articles are:

Population

Population

2022:35 million people

Data for September 2022,

Migration

2021: Net population inflow in 4 years

Overweight

Overweight among adults in Africa, 2016

Mortality

Traffic safety

The number of deaths on the roads per 100 thousand vehicles. Data for 2018

Foreign policy

2023: Refusal to condemn Russia in Ukraine conflict

UN voting results

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
Countries biggest debts to China, 2019

Inflation

2022: Inflation in November - 16.7%
Data for November 2022

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

Oil production in thousands of barrels per day by country in 2021
60% of the oil in Angola is produced by Cabinda, a small province separated from the main part of the country by the territory of the DRC.

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

Export and import of liquefied natural gas in 2022

Agriculture

2021: Share of farmland - 47%

Доля agricultural land from the total area of ​ ​ the countries of the world, 2021

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

As of 2019

Power

2020: Energy consumption per capita

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Energy consumption per capita, including electricity, transport heating in 2019-2020

2019: Electrification

Доступ к электричеству в countries Africa (2019)

Angola IT Market

2022: No start-up industry

Data for 2019-2022

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

According to data available for August 2023.

Consumption

2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption

The most consumed type of meat (including fish and seafood) according to data available for June 2023.

2019: Low rice consumption: 19.6 kg per person per year

2019

2018: Vegetable consumption - 26 kg per capita

Потребление овощей в countries Africa, kg per capita population in 2018

Education

2019: Percentage of people who can read

Share of African Population Who Can Read, 2019

Health care

2021: Maternity leave

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Число недель оплачиваемого maternity leave countries around the world for 2021

2020

Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave from 3 to 5.9 months

Data as of September 1, 2020

Part of the population defecates on the street

494 млн людей на To the earth defecate on the street. Share of such population by country for 2020

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.

Sambizanga (1972)

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

Data for 2019

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

World Prison Brief data for 2018

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is football

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Самый популярный вид sport countries of the world to to data June 2022

History

2020

Angolan President João Lourenço studied from 1978 to 1982 at the Lenin Military-Political Academy in Moscow. This is the only current president of the African country who was educated in the USSR at the beginning of 2020.

The daughter is Africa's first female billionaire Isabel dos Santos.

1985

How South African army soldiers had fun during the Angolan border war, the 1980s.

1914

Map of Africa in 1914

Calendar

Какой день считается первым в неделе в countries of the world, 2022