1986 Edition
CIA World Factbook 1986 (Internet Archive)
Geography
Agriculture
cash crops — coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, sugar, manioc, and tobacco; food crops — cassava, corn, vegetables, plantains, bananas, and other local foodstuffs; drought and disruptions caused by civil war require food imports
Area
300km Cab Scr regional map \ 1 1 Land 1,246,700 km2; larger than California and Texas combined; 44% forest; 22% meadow and pasture; 1% cultivated; 33% other (including fallow)
Branches
the official party is the supreme political institution; legislative — National People's Assembly
Budget
(1981) est. revenues $2.0 billion; est. total expenditures $3.5 billion
Capital
Luanda
Coastline
1,600 km People
Elections
none held to date Political parties and leaders: Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Labor Party (MPLA-Labor Party), led by dos Santos, is the only legal party; National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), lost to the MPLA in immediate postindependence struggle, now carrying out insurgency
Electric power
(including Cabinda) 630,000 kW capacity (1985); 1.655 billion kWh produced (1985), 208 kWh per capita
Ethnic divisions
37% Ovimbundu, 25% Kimbundu, 13% Bakongo, 2% Mestico, 1% European
Exports
est. $2.0 billion (f.o.b., 1985); oil, coffee, diamonds, sisal, fish and fish products, iron ore, timber, and cotton
Fiscal year
calendar year Communications
Fishing
catch 1 12,000 metric tons (1982)
GDP
$4.0 billion (1985 est.), $500 per capita, 0% real growth (1985)
Government leader
Jose Eduardo dos SANTOS, President (since September 1979)
Highways
73,828 km total; 8,577 km - bituminous-surface treatment, 29,350 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth, remainder unimproved earth
Imports
est. $1.7 billion (f.o.b., 1985); capital equipment (machinery and electrical equipment), wines, bulk iron and ironwork, steel and metals, vehicles and spare parts, textiles and clothing, medicines, food; substantial military deliveries
Infant mortality rate
148/1,000(1983)
Inland waterways
1,165 km navigable
Labor force
2,783,000 economically active (mid-1985 est.); 85% agriculture, 15% industry
Land boundaries
5,070 km Water
Language
Portuguese (official); various Bantu dialects
Legal system
formerly based on Portuguese civil law system and customary law; being modified along "socialist" model
Life expectancy
men 40.6, women 42.9
Limits of territorial waters (claimed)
20 nm (fishing 200 nm)
Literacy
20%
Major industries
mining (oil, diamonds), fish processing, brewing, tobacco, sugar processing, textiles, cement, food processing plants, building construction
Major trade partners
Cuba, USSR, Portugal, and US
Member of
AfDB, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), ICAO, IFAD, ILO, IMO, INTELSAT, ITU, NAM, OAU, SADCC, UN, UNESCO, UNICEF, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO Economy
Monetary conversion rate
30.214 kwanza=US$l (December 1985)
National holiday
Independence Day, 11 November
Nationality
noun — Angolan(s); adjective — Angolan
Natural resources
petroleum, diamonds, iron, phosphates, copper, feldspar, gold, bauxite, uranium
Official name
People's Republic of Angola
Organized labor
approx. 450,695 (1980) Government
Political subdivisions
18 provinces including the coastal exclave of Cabinda
Population
8,164,000, including Cabinda (July 1986), average annual growth rate 2.7%; Cabinda, 133,372 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 3.2%
Railroads
3,189 km total; 2,879 km 1.067meter gauge, 310 km 0.600-meter gauge
Religion
68% Roman Catholic, 20% Protestant, about 10% indigenous beliefs
Suffrage
to be determined
Type
Marxist people's republic