Angola Population

Angola at a glance

How Angola's population is changing

Angola's population is growing fast: +3.00% a year, which works out to about +1,171,595 people per year, or +3,208 a day. Births (37.2 per 1,000) and deaths (6.8 per 1,000) alone would give +3.03% a year; net migration removes about 3,524 people a year (−0.01%). Roughly one in every 210 people on Earth lives in Angola.

Population of Angola since 1960

In 1960, Angola had 5,231,654 people. By 2025 that was 39,040,039 — 7.5× larger. The fastest growth came between 2004 and 2014, when the population rose by 46%.

Angola from 1800 to 2100

Modelled estimates put Angola at about 1,567,028 people in 1800; the UN estimates 39,040,034 in 2025 (25× 1800) and projects 150,045,577 for 2100 in its medium scenario. That is still 284% growth over the rest of this century.

Country live/base figures use World Bank estimates; this historical/future chart uses a separate UN series and need not match the World Bank base in overlapping years. Before 1950: HYDE 3.3 / Gapminder reconstructions via Our World in Data — historical modelling, not censuses. 1950–2023: UN World Population Prospects 2024. 2024–2100: UN medium projection. Open the time machine to see the whole map in any year.

Largest listed places in Angola

10 records sorted by displayed base population. Definitions vary (province/administrative unit, UN urban centre or GeoNames settlement); this is not a harmonised city ranking. Shares use World Bank 2025 country population 39,040,039. Dates and boundaries may differ. Overlapping entities are not summed.

How Angola compares

Angola has almost the same population as Ukraine (38,980,376).

Rank	Country	Population	vs Angola
#37	Yemen	41,773,878	+7%	compare →
#38	Canada	41,651,653	+7%	compare →
#40	Ukraine	38,980,376	−0%	compare →
#41	Morocco	38,430,770	−2%	compare →

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Same region (Sub-Saharan Africa): Nigeria, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya.

Explore around Angola

Land neighbours (4)

• DR Congo 112,832,473 · 2.9× the population · compare
• Zambia 21,913,874 · 1.8× smaller · compare
• Republic of the Congo 6,484,437 · 6.0× smaller · compare
• Namibia 3,092,816 · 12.6× smaller · compare

Angola's 4 neighbours together hold 144,323,600 people — 3.7× Angola's population. The most populous is DR Congo (112,832,473).

In its region

Angola is the 9th most populous of the 48 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, holding 3.0% of the region's 1,321,654,217 people.

Rankings featuring Angola

• Fastest-growing countries #12
• Highest birth rates #7
• Highest fertility rates #7
• Youngest populations (share aged 0–14) #8

Cities

Luanda, Lubango, Cabinda, Malanje, Mulenvos, Viana, Kikolo, Maianga — all Angola's cities on the map.

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