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After 50 years, despite progress in infrastructure and urban development, issues related to poverty, unemployment or access to education and healthcare remain.
Angola will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence from Portugal this Tuesday. The country declared its independence on 11 November 1975, at the end of a 13-year war.
The event took place in dramatic circumstances, with the nationalist forces of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) engaging in a civil war that lasted close to three decades. Commemorations of the independence’s anniversary have been ongoing throughout the year, but beyond the celebrations of this historic milestone, many Angolans still face significant social and economic struggles.
After 50 years, despite progress in infrastructure and urban development, issues related to poverty, unemployment or access to education and healthcare remain.
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As of 2018, about a third of the Angolan population lived under the international poverty line of USD 2.15 a day, according to the World Bank. The same data found that about 16.5 million Angolans, or 52.9% of the population, lived on less than USD 3.65 per person per day — the international poverty line for lower-middle income countries.
