Angola

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Wars and violent conflicts

Indicator Angola
Conflict involvement as primary party (2017) 1 (1 x intra-state)
Conflict involvement as supporting party -
Number of victims of war as per 100,000 inhabitants 0.09
Number of violent conflicts and wars between 1975-2017 4
Child soldiers in conflicts
Victims of sexual violence in wars after 1946 yes
Number of homicides as per 100,000 inhabitants (2015) 9.6
Number of robberies as per 100,000 inhabitants
Death penalty (2017) No death penalty
Torture no known cases
Index value Political Terror Scale (2015) 3
Index value Physical Integrity Rights 4
Index value political system -2
Human Development Index (2017) 0.581
Index value Gini Coefficient (2008) 42.7
Political participation restricted
Number of politically active ethnic groups (2017) 1
Number of all ethnic groups (2017) 5
Ratio of politically active to total number of ethnic groups (2017) 20
Contested territories not affected
Sources:
  • Amnesty International (2018)
  • Bastick et. al (2007)
  • CIRI (2014)
  • CSP (2018)
  • ETH (2018)
  • HKS & PRIO (2016)
  • Natural Earth & GAUL (2016)
  • PTS (2017)
  • Sonderbeauftragter des UN-Generalsekretärs für Kinder und Gewaltkonflikte (2018)
  • UCDP (2018)
  • UCDP/PRIO (2018)
  • UN-Sicherheitsrat (2018)
  • UNDP (2018)
  • UNODC (2017)
  • World Bank (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Peace and demobilisation

Indicator Angola
Times of Peace ( 1975 - 2017 ) [%] 25.58
Current UN missions
Peace missions of other actors
Number of German personnel in missions
Personnel made available for UN operations
Number of Blue Helmets per 10,000 inhabitants
Current DDR programmes
DDR programmes since 1990 existing
Number of demobilised combatants 138,000
Sources:
  • AU (2016)
  • Bundeswehr (2018)
  • CIC (2013)
  • EAD/EEAS (2018)
  • IISS
  • NATO (2018)
  • UCDP/PRIO (2018)
  • UN (2016)
  • UN DPA (2018)
  • UN DPKO (2018)
  • UNDP
  • World Bank (2018)
  • ZIF (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Military capacities and means

Indicator Angola
Military expenditures in billion 3.06
Share of military expenditures in GDP [%] 2.2
Comparison military expentitures with social spending [%] 34.27
Military personnel 117000
Reservists
Number of military personnel per 10,000 inhabitants 39.28
Number of reservists per 10,000 inhabitants
Number of military personnel in total incl. reservists per doctor 39.581
Number of military personnel in total incl. reservists per teacher 0.778
Number of heavy weapons systems 1,526
Number of heavy weapons systems per 10,000 inhabitants 0.512
Index value level of militarisation 1990 884.53
Index value level of militarisation 688.953
Trends in militarisation 1990-2017 -195.577
Recipient countries of German military equipment [EUR] 200,000
Global arms exports [Mio. US$]
Global arms imports [Mio. US$] 204
Sources:
  • BICC (2018)
  • BMWI (2016)
  • IISS (2018)
  • SIPRI (2017)
  • SIPRI (2018)
  • UNSECO (2017)
  • WHO (2016)
  • World Bank (2016)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Natural resources and conflicts

Indicator Angola
Oil production [in tousand barrels/day] (2016) 1,707
Share of global oil production [%] (2016) 1.74
Gas production [Billion m³] (2016) 1.91
Share of global gas production [%] (2016) 0.05
Diamond mining [in thousand carats] (2017) 9,438,802.06
Share of global diamond mining [%] (2017) 6.26
Mining of selected mineral resources (2016)
Cultivation of cocoa tree yes
Cultivation of oil palm yes
Export of tropical woods no
Cocaanbau
Opiumanbau
Cannabisanbau
Ressource conflict intensity (2017) violent crisis
Share of conflict resources of total imports [%]
Share of oil and gas of total imports [%]
Share of diamonds of total imports [%]
Share of agricultural resources of total imports [%]
Share of conflict resources of total exports [%]
Share of oil and gas of total exports [%]
Share of diamonds of total exports [%]
Share of agricultural resources of total exports [%]
Resource dependency very high
Resource Governance Index 3.97
Member of Kimberley member
Member of FLEGT no member
Member of EITI
Corruption Index 19
Sources:
  • BICC (2006)
  • BMNT (2018)
  • EIA (2018)
  • EITI (2018)
  • FAO (2017)
  • FLEGT (2018)
  • HIIK (2018)
  • ITTO (2018)
  • Kimberley (2018)
  • Transparency International (2018)
  • UN Comtrade (2018)
  • UNODC (2018)
  • WTO (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Conventional Weapons

Indicator Angola
Main exporting country Russia
Heavy weapons systems from Germany 2004-2016 [€] 24,996,960
Number of battle tanks 300
Number of submarines 0
Number of combat aircraft 86
MP2/MP2A1 (UZI) can be found
AK 47 (Kalashnikov and ist variants ) can be found
G3 can be found
Number of civilian SALW as per 100 inhabitants 11.2
German small arms exports 2006–2016 [€] 10,653
Small arms exports [$]
Small arms imports [$]
Mine contamination massive
Mine production
Mine stockpiling
Member of the Mine Ban Treaty ratified or acceeded
Cluster munitions contamination light, medium
Cluster munitions production
Cluster munitions stockpiling destruction not started yet
Member of the convention on Cluster Munitions signed, but not ratfiied
Victims of landmines and cluster munitions
Sources:
  • BICC (2016)
  • Bundeswehr (2016)
  • CMC (2018)
  • EU (2018)
  • ICBL (2018)
  • IISS (2017)
  • LCMM (2017)
  • SAS (2018)
  • UN Comtrade (2018)
  • UNODA (2017)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Weapons of mass destruction

Indicator Angola
Means of delivery
Nuclear power no nuclear power
Current possession of nuclear weapons
Possession of nuclear weapons peak
Nuclear tests
Uran production [in tons]
Reactors in total
Nuclear reactors
Research reactors
Uranium enrichment plants
Uranium reprocessing plants
HEU [in kilograms]
Plutonium [in tons]
Risk of natural catastrophe index 6.57
Total people living within 30 km [in mio.]
Total people living within 150 km [in mio.]
Biological warfare agents
Number of events 1970-2017
Chemical warfare agents
Number of events 1970-2016 1 poison
Sources:
  • ACA (2018)
  • BEH (2018)
  • CIESIN (2016)
  • CNS (2008)
  • CTBTO (2018)
  • FAS (2018)
  • IAEO (2018)
  • IISS (2018)
  • ILPI (2016)
  • IPFM (2018)
  • NNSA (2000)
  • START (2018)
  • bmnt (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Arms control

Indicator Angola
Ratified multilateral arms control agreements 6
CFE & CFE-II agreement
Geneva Conventions since 1984
UN-Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons not signed
Treaty on Open Skies
Dayton Agreement
Vienna Document
Non-Proliferation Treaty ratified
Nuclear-weapon-free zones Pelindaba treaty
Biological Weapons Concention ratified
Chemical Weapons Convention ratified
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty ratified
Use of outer space
Outer space treaty not signed
Convention on Registration of Launched Objects into Outer Space not signed
Number of registered and active satellites
Sources:
  • AA (2016)
  • CTBTO (2016)
  • Eurospace (2015)
  • ICRC (2018)
  • OHR (1995)
  • OPCW (2018)
  • OSCE (2011)
  • OSCE (2016)
  • UCS (2018)
  • UNODA (2016)
  • UNODA (2018)
  • UNOG (2018)
  • UNOOSA (2018)
  • aca (2012)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Environmental safety

Indicator Angola
Environmental conflicts
Global temprature increase (1960-2017) [°C] 1.37
Proportion of population potentially affected by rising sea levels in 2030 [%] 1.68
Total number of population potentially affected by rising sea levels in 2030 0.54
Cilmate-Risk-Index rank (1997 - 2016) 105 (very low)
Cilmate-Risk-Index value (1997 - 2016) 97.5
Water scarcity in 2040 1.21 (low)
Water scarcity in 2040 (optimistic) 1.31
Water scarcity in 2040 (pessimistic) 1.14
Number of dams & reservoirs 10
Total storage volume of dams & reserviors [mio. m3] 14,382.8
Number of land grabbing deals 10
Proportion of the land area affected by soil degradation (1982-2003) [%] 66.42
Sources:
  • Ackva et al. (2015)
  • Bai et al. (2008)
  • Carius et al. (2006)
  • EC-JRC/PBL (2017)
  • GRDC (2007)
  • GWSP (2011)
  • Germanwatch (2018)
  • Global Land Matrix (2018)
  • Hansen et al. (2010), GISTEMP Team (2018)
  • Neumann et al. (2015)
  • WRI (2015)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

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