Healthcare in Angola

Healthcare in Angola is slightly below average in a worldwide comparison.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Angola is 59.6 years for men and 65.0 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 10.1 years lower (men: 69.8 / women: 74.9 years).

A total of 69.38 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 2.7 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,103.03 USD (~ 9.8% of the respective GDP).

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Spread of COVID-19 in Angola

Since the beginning of the pandemic until May 28th, 2023, a total of 105,384 infected people and 1,934 deaths have been reported in Angola.

The total of 105,384 infected people currently represents 0.32 percent of the total population.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 25.55 million vaccine doses have been administered as of May 21st, 2023. There are 15.75 million people who have received at least one vaccination (47.9 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 2.03 million people (6.2 percent).

8.82 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Angola (= 26.8 percent).
This means that Angola is one of the countries with the worst vaccination coverage in the world.The vaccination rate is higher in 199 countries.

Weight and size

	Male	Female
Body height	168 cm	158 cm
BMI	22.3	24.2
Weight	62.7 kg	60.2 kg

Diseases

	Angola	Ø worldwide
Diabetes *	4.50%	8.81%
Tuberculosis	3.25‰	1.34‰
Malaria	22.9%	5.7%
HIV / Aids	0.09%	0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.

Child vaccinations

	Angola	Ø worldwide
Measles	36.0%	81.7%
Hepatitis B	0.04%	0.08%
Tetanus	6.8%	0.0%
DTP *	4.50%	8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

Medical supplies

Medical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Angola is below average compared to the world population. The country provides 0.8 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about 7,410 physicians in Angola, there are about 0.21 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Through medical care, the mortality rate of major known diseases can be reduced as far as possible. For example, only about 22 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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