than half
the population (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line:
70% (2003 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
43.8% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
34.5% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $9.013 billion
expenditures: $9.562 billion, including capital expenditures of $963
million (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, manioc (tapioca),
tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest products; fish
Industries:
petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite,
uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing;
food processing; brewing; tobacco products; sugar; textiles, ship
repair
Industrial production growth rate:
1% (2000)
Electricity - production:
1.707 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 36.4% hydro: 63.6% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.587 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
980,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
31,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
22.88 billion bbl (2004 est.)
Natural gas - production:
530 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
530 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
79.57 billion cu m (2004)
Current account balance:
$-37.88 million (2004 est.)
Exports:
$12.76 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee,
sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton
Exports - partners:
US 38%, China 35.9%, Taiwan 6.8%, France 6.5% (2004)
Imports:
$4.896 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and electrical equipment, vehicles and spare parts;
medicines, food, textiles, military goods
Imports - partners:
South Korea 28.3%, Portugal 13.1%, US 9.3%, South Africa 7.4%,
Brazil 5.6%, Japan 4.8%, France 4.4% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$800 million (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$10.45 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$383.5 million (1999)
Currency (code):
kwanza (AOA)
Currency code:
AOA
Exchange rates:
kwanza per US dollar - 83.541 (2004), 74.606 (2003), 43.53 (2002),
22.058 (2001), 10.041 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Angola
Telephones - main lines in use:
96,300 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
130,000 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: telephone service limited mostly to government
and business use; HF radiotelephone used extensively for military
links
domestic: limited system of wire, microwave radio relay, and
tropospheric scatter
international: country code - 244; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); fiber optic submarine cable (SAT-3/WASC)
provides connectivity to Europe and Asia
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 21, FM 6, shortwave 7 (2000)
Radios:
815,000 (2000)
Television broadcast stations:
6 (2000)
Televisions:
196,000 (2000)
Internet country code:
.ao
Internet hosts:
17 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)
Internet users:
41,000 (2002)
Transportation Angola
Railways: total: 2,761 km narrow gauge: 2,638 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge (2004)
Highways: total: 51,429 km paved: 5,328 km unpaved: 46,101 km (2001)
Waterways:
1,300 km (2004)
Pipelines:
gas 214 km; liquid natural gas 14 km; liquid petroleum gas 30 km;
oil 837 km; refined products 56 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Cabinda, Luanda, Soyo
Merchant marine:
total: 4 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 26,123 GRT/42,879 DWT
by type: cargo 1, passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 1
registered in other countries: 4 (2005)
Airports:
243 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 32
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14