<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Angola<nl>Economy</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> Subsistence agriculture provides the main livelihood for 80-90% of the population but accounts for less than 15% of GDP. Oil production is vital to the economy, contributing about 60% to GDP. Bitter internal fighting continues to severely affect the economy, and food must be imported. In 1993, production fell by an estimated 22.6%, mainly because of the capture by insurgents of the oil town of Soyo and diamond-producing areas in northeastern Angola. Angola has rich natural resources—notably gold, diamonds, and arable land, in addition to large oil depoaits—but will need to end the war and reform government policies if it is to achieve its potential.
<item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—purchasing power equivalent—$5.7 billion (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> -22.6% (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $600 (1993 est.)
<item>• <hi format=ital>commodities:</hi> capital equipment (machinery and electrical equipment), food, vehicles and spare parts, textiles and clothing, medicines; substantial military deliveries
<item>• <hi format=ital>partners:</hi> Portugal, Brazil, US, France, Spain
<item><hi format=bold>Industrial production:</hi> growth rate NA%; accounts for about 60% of GDP, including petroleum output
<item><hi format=bold>Electricity:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>capacity:</hi> 510,000 kW
<item>• <hi format=ital>production:</hi> 800 million kWh
<item>• <hi format=ital>consumption per capita:</hi> 84 kWh (1991)
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<item><hi format=bold>Industries:</hi> petroleum; mining—diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; fish processing; food processing; brewing; tobacco; sugar; textiles; cement; basic metal products
<item><hi format=bold>Agriculture:</hi> cash crops—bananas, sugar cane, coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, cane, manioc, tobacco; food crops—cassava, corn, vegetables, plantains ; livestock production accounts for 20%, fishing 4%, forestry 2% of total agricultural output; disruptions caused by civil war, and marketing deficiencies require food imports
<item><hi format=bold>Economic aid:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>recipient:</hi> US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $265 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $1.105 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $1.3 billion; net official disbursements (1985-89), $750 million
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<item><hi format=bold>Currency:</hi> 1 new kwanza (NKz)=100 lwei
<item><hi format=bold>Exchange rates:</hi> kwanza (Kz) per US$1—90,000 (official rate 1June 1994), 180,000 (black market rate 1 June 1994); 7,000 (official rate 16 December 1993), 50,000 (black market rate 16 December 1993); 3,884 (July 1993); 550 (April 1992); 90 (November 1991); 60 (October 1990)
<item><hi format=bold>Fiscal year:</hi> calendar year