Angola
Everything Palanor holds about Angola, in one place: 53 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
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The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $122.2 billion (2025); 85th percentile since 1990; highest since 2022; 1y +18.5%.
- Household consumption, share of GDP: 61.7% of GDP (2024); record high since 2002; 1y +2.77 pts.
- Net exports, share of GDP: 11.3% of GDP (2025); 35th percentile since 2002; lowest since 2020; 1y −0.6 pts.
Country Posture
What Angola’s economy is doing
Momentum
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | 3.1 |
| Growth against its three-year average | -0.1 |
| Change in unemployment | 0.1 |
| Change in the employment rate | -0.1 |
| Export volume growth | — |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
202544Moderate buffers
0 = thin buffers · 100 = deep buffers
Moved most by current account (down) and reserves, months of imports (down) since the year before.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue (2024) | 25.2 | 5 |
| Budget balance (2024) | -1.3 | 50 |
| Reserves, months of imports | 5.3 | 61 |
| Current account | 0.3 | 50 |
| Governance (WGI mean) | -0.78 | 60 |
| External debt (2024) | 79.6 | 29 |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | 20.2 |
| Change in inflation | -8.1 |
| Currency move against the dollar | 4.7% |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.6 |
| Political stability | -0.44 |
| Private credit, three-year change | -0.4 |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | — |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Passport reach
Where a Angola passport opens doors
The share of world GDP, outside Angola itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.
Work
0.0%rank 114 of 199
the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 0 destinations in full.
Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.
Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.
GDP by expenditure
What Angola’s economy runs on
In 2024, household spending was 61.7% of GDP, government consumption 15.8%, investment 10.6% and net exports +11.9% (exports 30.9%, imports 19.0%).
World Bank national accounts. The parts can miss 100 by a few points (the statistical discrepancy).
Same World Bank definition for every country, so the shares compare directly: What each economy runs on.
IMF World Economic Outlook
The IMF’s outlook for Angola
The latest year before the October 2026 edition (often still an IMF estimate) and the IMF’s own projections. These are the IMF’s published forecasts, shown as published; Palanor does not project them further. Since the previous edition the IMF raised its growth forecast for this year by 2.1 percentage points (Palanor calculation).
| Measure | 2025 | 2026 IMF f’cast | 2027 IMF f’cast | 2031 IMF f’cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real GDP growth% | 3.1 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| Inflation, average consumer prices% | 20.2 | 10.6 | 10.2 | 8.6 |
| GDP, current US dollarsUS$ bn | 140.7 | 157.3 | 170.0 | 175.8 |
| GDP at purchasing-power parityintl $ bn | 402.7 | 434.8 | 463.1 | 567.1 |
| GDP per person, US dollarsUS$ | 3,588 | 3,876 | 4,047 | 3,647 |
| Current account balance% of GDP | 0.3 | 2.8 | -0.1 | -0.3 |
| Government gross debt% of GDP | 52.9 | 51.5 | 53.3 | 55.1 |
| Government overall balance% of GDP | -4.1 | -4.7 | -4.6 | -4.8 |
| Government primary balance% of GDP | -0.3 | -1.0 | -0.7 | -0.0 |
| Government net interest paid% of GDP · Palanor calc. | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026. Provided by the IMF “as is” and free of charge from the IMF; the IMF does not endorse Palanor. Net interest paid is a Palanor calculation: the IMF's primary balance minus its overall balance.
Conflict
Organized violence
News
In the news
- “It’s my dream to go abroad.” The priests emerging from Flores can be sent to churches all over the world. From Angola to Austria, young Indonesian men are spreading the gospel
The Economist · Bluesky2026-10-04neutral
Headlines that name Angola, matched by name with fixed rules (a wrong match is worse than a missing one). Tone is read from each headline’s own words; no model reads or summarizes an article, and other publishers’ stories link out.
Signals
Every series about Angola
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 53 in the Library.
Growth and output4
- Angola · GDP · USD bn (current)85th percentile since 1990; highest since 2022; 1y +18.5%$122.2bn2025
- Angola: Share of World GDP at Market Exchange Rates63rd percentile since 1990; highest since 2022; 1y +0.011 pts0.1% of world GDP2025
- Angola: Share of World GDP Minus Share of World Population4th percentile since 1990; 1y +0.001 pts-0.372025
- Angola: Share of World Populationrecord high since 1990; 1y +0.01 pts0.48% of world population2025
Money, rates and credit1
- Angola · Central Bank Policy Rate (IMF)64th percentile since Nov 2011; 1y −2.50 pts17%2026-08-01
Trade and capital flows1
- Angola · Net International Investment Position, % of GDP (IMF)72nd percentile since 2003; highest since 2014; 1y +0.109 pts-11.9% of GDP2025
Energy and resources1
- Crude Oil Production · Angola61st percentile since Jan 1973; 1y +16.5%1,0542026-06-01
Conflict and geopolitics2 of 6
- Angola · Organized-Violence Deaths (UCDP, annual)39th percentile since 1989; 1y unchanged25 deaths2025
- Angola · State-Based Conflict Deaths (UCDP, annual)50th percentile since 1989; 1y unchanged25 deaths2025
AI stance and technology1
- AI User Share: Angola (Microsoft AI Diffusion)1y +2.50 pts11.4% of people aged 15-642026-06-30
Climate and the physical world3 of 5
- Angola Burned Area (GWIS)19th percentile since 2002; lowest since 2022; 1y −8.0%34.82025
- Angola · Plastic Emitted to the Ocean by Rivers · tonnes per year (2015)450.5 t/yr2015
- Angola · Share of Global River Plastic Emitted to the Ocean · % (2015)0.05% of world2015
More about this country2
- Angola · IMF Credit Outstanding · USD bn (IMF)66th percentile since Nov 2009; lowest since Dec 2020; 1y −18.6%$2.97bn2026-09-01
- Angola · IMF Credit Outstanding, % of GDP68th percentile since 2009; lowest since 2019; 1y −0.704 pts2.46% of GDP2025
Peers
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