- ISO 3166
AO- Main language + region
pt-AO- Currency
- AOA · Angolan Kwanza
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Angola
Angola has 37.2M people, and 15.1M of them are online. Portuguese is the most widely spoken language at 67%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Portuguese is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to pt-AO.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
15.1M
0%world median 81%100%
41% of 37.2M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,129
Higher than 25% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
29%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2014. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
4
Portuguese 67% · Umbundu 29% · Kimbundu 25%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
413
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
70%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Angola
share of 37.2M people
- Portugueseofficial67%24.9M
- Umbundu29%10.8M
- Kimbundu25%9.3M
- Lingala0.7%249.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Portuguese in 15 territories and 249.5M speakers in total; Angola holds 10% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Portuguese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (pt-AO).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 Kz
1,234.56 in AOA · Angolan Kwanza