ANGOLA Republic of Angola

GOVERNMENT:
• President:--------------------------------- Jose' Eduardo dos Santos
• Prime Minister: ----------------------------- Fernando José de Franca Dias
• Independence:----------- Independence from Portugal in Nov. 11, 1975
  
  GEOGRAPHY:
  
• Location:------------------------------------ Southern Africa
• Natural Resources:----------- Diamonds, Gold, Petroleum, iron ore, phosphates, copper, feldspar, bauxite, uranium
• Area: --------------------- 1,246,700 sq.km : 481,354 sq mi
• Capital City: ----------------------------- Luanda
• Capital city (Est. pop.):------------------ 2,081,000
  
  PEOPLE:
  
• Population: ----------------------------- 10,864,512
• Literacy:------------------ 42% (males:56%, females:28%)
• Languages:----------------- Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African Languages
• Monitary unit:--------------- Kwanza
• Official languages:------------------- Bantu , Portuguese
• Economy:------------ diamonds and oil exports
  
  VITAL STATISTICS:
  
• Birth Rate:----------------------- 44.11 (per 1,000 population)
• Death Rate:---------------------- 17.24 (per 1,000 population)
• Infant Mortality Rate:----------- 135.7 (deaths per 1,000 live births)
• Fertility Rate:------------------ 6.27 (per woman)
• Life Expectancy at Birth:
     - total population: 47.32 (Males:45.12, Females:49.64)
  
  ECONOMY:
  
• GDP:------ purchasing power parity - $8.3 billion (1996)
     - GDP real growth rate :------- 9%
     - GDP per capita:------- $700
  
• Inflation Rate: ---------------- (Consumer prices): 1,700% (1996)
• National Budget:
     - Revenues:-------------- $928 million
     - Expenditures:-------------- $2.5 billion
  
• External Debt:------------ $12.5 billion
• Currency:---------------- 1 new kwanza = 100 lwei
• Labor Force:------------- 2.783 million
• Unemployment Rate:------------ (extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population) (1994).
• Agriculture:-------------- Bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn(maize), cotton, manioc(tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest products; fish.
• Industries:----------------- Petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; fish processing; food processing; brewing; tobacco; sugar; textiles; cement; basic metal products.
• Exports:---------------------- $4 billion
     - Commodities:--- Oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish, and fish products, timber, cotton.
  
• Imports:------------------- $1.7 billion
     - Commodities:--- Capital equipment (machinery and electrical equipment), food, vehicals and spare parts, textiles and clothing, medicines, substantial military deliveries.
  
  
• DEFENCE:
  Defence Expenditures:------------- exchange rate conversion - $1.1 billion, 31% of GDP

Geography:Angola is located on South West Africa along the southern Atlantic Ocean
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