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If you were born in Angola

1 in 94 babies on Earth is born in Angola, about 1.41 million a year. If your birthplace were drawn by lot, you would be born here with a chance of 1 in 94. Below is what awaits a child born here, according to the statistics, and three lives lived here in the game.

What stands out here

People here live 8.7 years less than the world average: 64.8 years against 73.5 years.
4.9 in 100 children here die before age five, 1.3 times the world average.
The World Bank classes it as a lower-middle-income country. There are 46 such countries, and 46 in 100 of the world’s babies are born in them.
Women here have 5.1 children on average; the world average is 2.2.
The birth rate here is among the ten highest in the world.
It is one of the ten countries with the most unequal incomes in the world (Gini index 51.3).

The odds in numbers

Indicator	Angola	World
Births a year	1,407,762	132,315,943
Chance of being born here	1 in 94	—
Life expectancy, men	62.3 years	71 years
Life expectancy, women	67.3 years	75.9 years
Die before age 1, per 100 children	3.2	2.8
Die before age 5, per 100 children	4.9	3.7
Die between ages 15 and 60, per 100 men	27	17
Die between ages 15 and 60, per 100 women	18	11
Maternal deaths per 100,000 births	183	187
Children per woman	5.1	2.2
GDP per person a year, at purchasing power parity	$10,300	$25,400
Income inequality, Gini index (0–100)	51.3	—
Can read and write, per 100 adults	68	86
Average years of schooling, adults	6 years	8.4 years
University enrolment, gross ratio (can exceed 100)	10	48
Married before 18, per 100 young women	23	16
Live in cities, per 100	72	58
Work in farming, per 100 workers	52	27
Working or looking for work, per 100 women	72	48
Living with HIV, per 100 adults aged 15–49	1.6	0.7
Homicides per 100,000 people a year	4.1	4.8
Road deaths per 100,000 people a year	15	15
Suicides per 100,000 people a year	8.1	9.1
Use tobacco, per 100 adults	≈8.3	20
Born in another country, per 100 residents	1.8	3.7
Life evaluation, 0 to 10	3.8	5.4

“World” is the average weighted by population, and by births for child and maternal mortality. ≈ marks an estimate: there is no published figure for this country.

Three lives lived here in the game

This is how the life of a child born in Angola could turn out. The game lived 20 lives on its own, with no player, by this country’s numbers. Here are three of them: one of the shortest, the middle one and one of the longest.

Domingos António
Born in 2026 in Luanda, Angola, into one of the poorest families. Education: primary school. 26 years of work, last as business owner with staff. Married. 2 children. Age at death: 43 years. Cause: a heart attack.
Ana Francisco
Born in 2026 in a small town, Angola, into a family of modest means. Education: never went to school. 58 years of work. Married. 5 children. 24 grandchildren. Age at death: 73 years. Cause: pneumonia.
Helena dos Santos
Born in 2026 in a small town, Angola, into a middle-income family. Education: never went to school. 56 years of work. Widowed. 2 children. 9 grandchildren. Age at death: 89 years. Cause: a stroke.

These people are made up, and three lives are not statistics. The real numbers are in the table above.

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Data: the UN, the World Bank (release of October 8, 2026), WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO, the ILO and the World Happiness Report. Where the numbers come from and what in the game is real