Angola recovery
Last reviewed: 04-09-2008
OIL AND DIAMOND-RICH COUNTRY SLOW TO REBUILD
- 70 percent live below poverty line
- Country littered with landmines
- Poor infrastructure hampers aid delivery
KEY FACTS
| HEALTH AND EDUCATION | |
| Life expectancy (2006) | 41.7 years (UNDP - Human Development Report 2007-2008) |
| Percentage of undernourished population (2002-2004) | 35 percent (U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) 2006 ) |
| Children who die before the age of five (2005) | 26 percent (UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2007) |
| DoctorsB> | 8 per 100,000 people (UNDP - Human Development Report 2007-2008) |
| CORRUPTION | |
| Transparency International corruption ranking (1=least corrupt,) | Joint 147th out of 163 countries (Transparency International 2007) |
| DISPLACEMENT AND REFUGEES | |
| Internally displaced people (2005) | 61,000 (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre 2006) |
| Refugees originating here (2007) | 199,000 (U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, 2008) |
| LANDMINES | |
| Deaths and casualties (2006) | 134 (Landmine Monitor Report 2007) |
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