Angola

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
30,774,205 1
Urban
65.50% 1
Rural
34.50% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
0.4% 2
Homicides
9.65 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
164 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
117 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
6.00 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
15.70% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
53 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
70.78% 6
Internet Users
21% 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
30.1% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
18,001,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
57.83
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
122,502
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
55,191
First Communions per Year
63,547
Confirmations per Year
32,603
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
309,388
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
132,776
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
18,804
Church Marriages per Year
15,372
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
15,127
Priests
1,220
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
2,258
Catholics per Priest
14,755
Parishes
469
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
725
Catholic Hospitals
44
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
7