Angola is the world’s 4th country with the highest fertility rate – United Nations
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, consulted by Lusa, focuses on demographic indicators and reproductive and sexual health in two hundred countries and regions, predicting that the world population will exceed eight billion in 2023.
According to the same document, two-thirds of the world population lives in regions where fertility rates have fallen below the so-called replacement level of 2.1 births per woman.
The world average is 2.3.
However, this trend is contradicted by African countries at the top of the fertility charts, with Niger at the top with 6.7 births per woman.
Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Chad follow with 6.1, tied for second place, the Central African Republic and Mali are third with 5.8 births per woman, and Angola and Nigeria are fourth.
Angola also has a high percentage of young people, with 45% of the population aged between 0 and 14 (25% worldwide), while only 3% of Angolans are over 65 (10% on the world average).
The report also assesses the speed at which the population doubles, which will happen in the case of Angola every 23 years (76 worldwide).
Concerning sexual and reproductive health, the UN indicators point to a low prevalence of contraceptive use in 2023 among women between 15 and 49 years of age: 17% compared to the world average of 50%.
However, concerning laws and regulations that guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health care, Angola is in line with the world average (62% and 76%, respectively) but well below the indices of the coverage of health services (39% versus 68%).
With information from Lusa
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