| Country Information |  Name: Republic of Angola
President: José Eduardo dos Santos (1979)
Area: 481,351 sq mi (1,246,700 sq km)
Population (2005 est.): 11,190,786
- growth rate: 1.9%;
- birth rate: 44.6/1000;
- infant mortality rate: 191.2/1000;
- life expectancy: 36.6;
- density per sq mi: 23
Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Luanda, 2,297,200
Other large cities: Huambo, 171,000; Lubango, 136,000
Monetary unit: New Kwanza
Languages:
- Portuguese (official),
- Bantu
- other African languages | Religions:
- Indigenous 47%,
- Roman Catholic 38%,
- Protestant 15% (1998 est.) |
Ethnicity/race: - Ovimbundu 37%,
- Kimbundu 25%,
- Bakongo 13%,
- mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%,
- European 1%,
- other 22%
Literacy rate: 42% (1998 est.)
Economic summary:
- GDP/PPP (2004 est.): $23.17 billion; per capita $2,100.
- Real growth rate: 11.7%.
- Inflation: 43.8%.
- Unemployment: extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population (2001 est.).
- Arable land: 2%.
- Agriculture: bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, manioc (tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest products; fish.
- Labor force: 5.41 million; agriculture 85%, industry and services 15% (2003 est.).
- Industries: petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing; food processing; brewing; tobacco products; sugar; textiles.
- Natural resources: petroleum, diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, copper, feldspar, gold, bauxite, uranium.
- Exports: $9.669 billion (f.o.b., 2003 est.): crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton.
- Imports: $4.08 billion (f.o.b., 2003 est.): machinery and electrical equipment, vehicles and spare parts; medicines, food, textiles, military goods.
- Major trading partners: U.S., EU, China, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil.
 Communications:
- Telephones: main lines in use: 69,700 (1997); mobile cellular: 25,800 (2000).
- Radio broadcast stations: AM 36, FM 7, shortwave 9 (2000).
- Radios: 815,000 (2000).
- Television broadcast stations: 7 (2000).
- Televisions: 196,000 (2000).
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000).
- Internet users: 30,000 (2001).
Transportation:
- Railways: total: 2,771 km (inland, much of the track is unusable because of land mines still in place from the civil war) (2000 est.).
- Highways: total: 76,626 km; paved: 19,156 km; unpaved: 57,470 km (1997).
- Waterways: 1,295 km.
- Ports and harbors: Ambriz, Cabinda, Lobito, Luanda, Malongo, Namibe, Porto Amboim, Soyo.
- Airports: 244 (2001).
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