This article is about the demographic features of the population of Angola, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. , Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands. According to 2014 census data, Angola had a population of 25,789,024 inhabitants in 2014. Ethnically, there are three main groups, each speaking a Bantu language: the Ovimbundu who represent 37% of the population, the Ambundu with 25%, and the Bakongo 13%. Other numerically important groups include the closely interrelated Chokwe and Lunda, the Ganguela and Nyaneka-Khumbi, the Ovambo, the Herero, the Xindonga and scattered residual groups of San. In addition, mixed race people amount to about 2%, with a small population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese. As a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, Angola possesses a Portuguese population of over 200,000, a number that has been growing from 2000 onwards, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources. Currently, over 300,000 Angolans are white, 1 million Angolans are mixed race and 50,000 Angolans are from China, which accounts for 1.35 million people. In 1974, white Angolans made up a population of 330,000 to 350,000 people in an overall population of 6.3 million Angolans at that time. The only reliable source on these numbers is Gerald Bender & Stanley Yoder, Whites in Angolaon the Eve of Independence: The Politics of Numbers, Africa Today, 21 1974, pp. 23 – 37. Today, many Angolans who are not ethnic Portuguese can claim Portuguese nationality under Portuguese law. Estimates on the overall population are given in Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries can be found. From the 2000s, many Chinese have settled and started up small businesses, while at least as many have come as workers for large enterprises. Observers claim that the Chinese community in Angola might include as many as 300,000 persons at the end of 2010, but reliable statistics are not at this stage available. In 1974/75, over 25,000 Cuban soldiers arrived in Angola to help the MPLA forces at the beginning of the Angolan Civil War. Once this was over, a massive development cooperation in the field of health and education brought in numerous civil personnel from Cuba. However, only a very small percentage of all these people has remained in Angola, either for personal reasons or as professionals. The largest religious denomination is Catholicism, to which adheres about half the population. Roughly 26% are followers of traditional forms of Protestantism, but over the last decades there has in addition been a growth of Pentecostal communities and African Initiated Churches. In 2006, one out of 221 people were Jehovah's Witnesses. Blacks from Mali, Nigeria and Senegal are mostly Sunnite Muslims, but do not make up more than 1 - 2% of the population. By now few Angolans retain African traditional religions following different ethnic faiths.
Population
According to the total population was in, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 46.6%, 50.9% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.5% was 65 years or older for Angola
Total population
Population aged 0–14
Population aged 15–64
Population aged 65+
1950
4,148,000
41.2
55.7
3.1
1955
4,542,000
42.4
54.9
2.7
1960
4,963,000
43.7
53.6
2.7
1965
5,431,000
45.3
52.0
2.7
1970
5,926,000
46.0
51.3
2.7
1975
6,637,000
46.2
51.1
2.7
1980
7,638,000
46.5
50.8
2.7
1985
9,066,000
47.0
50.4
2.7
1990
10,335,000
47.5
49.9
2.6
1995
12,105,000
47.6
49.8
2.5
2000
13,926,000
47.7
49.9
2.5
2005
16,489,000
47.6
49.9
2.5
2010
19,082,000
46.6
50.9
2.5
2014
25,789,000
47.3
50.3
2.4
Structure of the population :
Age Group
Male
Female
Total
0-4
21.3
21.3
21.3
5-9
15.5
13.7
14.6
10-14
12.2
12.1
12.1
15-19
9.7
10.9
10.3
20-24
8.1
10.1
9.1
25-29
7.8
7.7
7.7
30-34
5.5
5.0
5.3
35-39
4.4
4.5
4.4
40-44
3.4
2.8
3.1
45-49
3.1
2.0
2.5
50-54
2.9
4.7
3.8
55-59
2.0
1.9
1.9
60-64
1.6
1.5
1.6
65-69
1.0
0.7
0.8
70-74
0.8
0.5
0.6
75-79
0.4
0.3
0.3
80+
0.4
0.3
0.4
unknown
0.1
0.0
0.1
Vital statistics
Registration of vital events is in Angola not complete. The Population Department of the United Nations and the CIA World Factbook prepared the following estimates.
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
Population
Age structure
Median age
Population growth
The population is growing by 3.52% annually. There are 44.2 births and 9.2 deaths per 1,000 citizens. The net migration rate is 0.2 migrants per 1,000 citizens. The fertility rate of Angola is 6.16 children born per woman as of 2017. The infant mortality rate is 67.6 deaths for every 1,000 live births with 73.3 deaths for males and 61.8 deaths for females for every 1,000 live births. Life expectancy at birth is 60.2 years; 58.2 years for males and 62.3 years for females.
According to the CIA World Factbook, 2% of adults are living with HIV/AIDS. The risk of contracting disease is very high. There are food and waterborne diseases, bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever; vectorborne diseases, malaria, African trypanosomiasis ; respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis, a water contact disease, as of 2005.
Ethnic groups
Roughly 37% of Angolans are Ovimbundu, 25% are Ambundu, 13% are Bakongo, 2% are mestiço, 1-2% are white Africans, and people from other African ethnicities make up 22% of Angola's population.
Religions
Angola is a majority Christian country. Official statistics do not exist, however it is estimated that over 80% belong to a Christian church or community. More than half are Catholic, the remaining ones comprising members of traditional Protestant churches as well as of Pentecostal communities. Only 0.1% are Muslims - generally immigrants from other African countries. Traditional indigenous religions are practiced by a very small minority, generally in peripheral rural societies.
Education
Literacy is quite low, with 71.1% of the population over the age of 15 able to read and write in Portuguese. 82% of males and 60.7% of women are literate as of 2015.
Languages
is the official language of Angola, but Bantu and other African languages are also widely spoken. In fact, Kikongo, Kimbundu, Umbundu, Tuchokwe, Nganguela, and Ukanyama have the official status of "national languages". The mastery of Portuguese is widespread; in the cities the overwhelming majority are either fluent in Portuguese or have at least a reasonable working knowledge of this language; an increasing minority are native Portuguese speakers and have a poor, if any, knowledge of an African language.
