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Angola

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Angola is a country. The capital city is Luanda, located in the Middle Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 1,246,700 km², a population of 36,749,906 people and uses the currency Angolan kwanza. The President is João Lourenço.

Key facts

currency: Angolan kwanza
capital city: Luanda
region: Middle Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 1,246,700 km²
population: 36,749,906 people
political leader: João Lourenço (President)

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expense: 16.68 % of GDP
GDP: 84,824,654,481.72 current US$
inflation: 13.64 annual %
self-employed workers: 65.50 % of total employment
tax revenue: 10.09 % of GDP
unemployment: 14.54 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 60.58 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 117,000 people
democracy score: 3.62
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 44.80 % of population
military expenditure: 1.33 % of GDP
net migration: -995 people
press freedom: 2.24
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 33.64 %
birth rate: 38.20 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.86 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 64.16 current US$
health expenditure: 2.96 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.44 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.75 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 62
suicide mortality rate: 6.10 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 458,970.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 2.55 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 28.23 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 48.50 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 53.17 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 46.83 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.00 % of total
net energy imports: -541.00 % of energy use
fertility rate: 5.21 births per woman
forest area: 654,972 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 48.31 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 67.70 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 12.60
methane emissions: 33.99 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 5.11 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 18,568,216 people
male population: 18,181,690 people
renewable energy consumption: 52.90 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 1,250,999.88 km²
rural population: 11,507,131 people
urban land area: 2,991.35 km²
urban population: 25,242,775 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.22 % of total population

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