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Angola Population: current counter, charts, ranking

Updated on by Georank team

The current population of Angola is 39,983,997 people, as of 2025 based on the adjusted UN estimation. The latest officially reported number was 37,885,849 in 2024.

Population facts:

  • Angola accounts for 0.48% of the world's population.
  • For the last 20 years, Angola has had an average growth rate of 5.36% per year.
  • Angola is projected to reach 150M people in 2100.
  • Angola is ranked 39/197 by population and was ranked 56th in 2005.
  • Since 2005, population has increased from 19.3M people to 40M (107.3% growth in 20 years).

Angola population clock

Angola World
Current population
39983997
8266870341
Population rank 39/197 N/A
Percent of world population 0.48% N/A
One net population change
27.8 seconds
0.41 seconds
One birth every
22.8 seconds
0.24 seconds
One death every
2.07 minutes
0.52 seconds
Daily growth/decline +3,112 +211,178
Annual growth/decline +1,135,943 +77,079,845
Annual growth/decline rate +3.09% +0.96%
Population growth rate rank 13/197 N/A
One migration net change every
3.33 hours
N/A
Annual migration change -2,629 N/A

Angola population history and growth rate by year chart

Population
Factual

Projection
Growth rate
Factual

Projection
Year Population Growth rate
1960 5,231,654 -
1961 5,301,583 1.34%
1962 5,354,310 0.99%
1963 5,408,320 1.01%
1964 5,464,187 1.03%
1965 5,521,981 1.06%
1966 5,581,386 1.08%
1967 5,641,807 1.08%
1968 5,702,699 1.08%
1969 5,763,685 1.07%
1970 5,852,788 1.55%
1971 5,991,102 2.36%
1972 6,174,262 3.06%
1973 6,388,528 3.47%
1974 6,613,367 3.52%
1975 6,842,947 3.47%
1976 7,074,664 3.39%
1977 7,317,829 3.44%
1978 7,576,734 3.54%
1979 7,847,207 3.57%
1980 8,133,872 3.65%
1981 8,435,607 3.71%
1982 8,751,648 3.75%
1983 9,082,983 3.79%
1984 9,425,917 3.78%
1985 9,779,120 3.75%
1986 10,139,450 3.68%
1987 10,497,858 3.53%
1988 10,861,291 3.46%
1989 11,238,562 3.47%
1990 11,626,360 3.45%
1991 12,023,529 3.42%
1992 12,423,712 3.33%
1993 12,827,135 3.25%
1994 13,249,764 3.29%
1995 13,699,778 3.4%
1996 14,170,973 3.44%
1997 14,660,413 3.45%
1998 15,159,370 3.4%
1999 15,667,235 3.35%
2000 16,194,869 3.37%
2001 16,747,208 3.41%
2002 17,327,699 3.47%
2003 17,943,712 3.56%
2004 18,600,423 3.66%
2005 19,291,161 3.71%
2006 20,015,279 3.75%
2007 20,778,561 3.81%
2008 21,578,655 3.85%
2009 22,414,773 3.87%
2010 23,294,825 3.93%
2011 24,218,352 3.96%
2012 25,177,394 3.96%
2013 26,165,620 3.93%
2014 27,160,769 3.8%
2015 28,157,798 3.67%
2016 29,183,070 3.64%
2017 30,234,839 3.6%
2018 31,297,155 3.51%
2019 32,375,632 3.45%
2020 33,451,132 3.32%
2021 34,532,429 3.23%
2022 35,635,029 3.19%
2023 36,749,906 3.13%
2024 37,885,849 3.09%
2025 39,040,029 3.05%
2026 40,215,174 3.01%
2027 41,415,119 2.98%
2028 42,641,677 2.96%
2029 43,891,847 2.93%
2030 45,160,453 2.89%
2031 46,449,962 2.86%
2032 47,759,505 2.82%
2033 49,091,470 2.79%
2034 50,447,449 2.76%
2035 51,821,711 2.72%
2036 53,215,935 2.69%
2037 54,625,858 2.65%
2038 56,053,776 2.61%
2039 57,501,906 2.58%
2040 58,965,319 2.54%
2041 60,441,178 2.5%
2042 61,927,899 2.46%
2043 63,430,872 2.43%
2044 64,945,294 2.39%
2045 66,464,320 2.34%
2046 68,000,587 2.31%
2047 69,554,157 2.28%
2048 71,118,776 2.25%
2049 72,701,379 2.23%
2050 74,295,387 2.19%

Angola has a population of 40M as of 2025, compared to 28.2M in 2015, 19.3M in 2005, and 13.7M in 1995.

Over the past 10 years, the population has had a trend to increase by an average of 4.2% per year. Angola is ranked 5th out of 197 countries by a 10-year average growth rate.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 20 years (in 2045) Angola will have 66,464,320 people (66.2% growth) with a rank change from 39th to 30th.

By the year 2100, Angola's population is projected to grow by 275.3% to 150M people.

Largest cities by population

Angola
City Population
Luanda 2.49M
Huambo 844K
Cabinda 739K
Benguela 562K
Lobito 436K
Luena 357K

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Angola population statistics

Angola World
Life expectancy 65 years 73.5 years
Average age 22.5 years 33.8 years
Median age 17.7 years 31.6 years
Male:Female ratio 49.5:50.5 50.3:49.7
Fertility rate 5.12 births per woman 2.2 births per woman
Population density 78.7 ppl/mi² 141.6 ppl/mi²

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