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Land

Size, shape and altitude

Total area

How big is it, really?

Angola is 9% bigger than Colombia

Angola: 1,246,700 km² (2024) · Colombia: 1,140,620 km² (2024)

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Coastline

How much coast is there?

Colombia’s coastline is 2 times as long as Angola’s

Angola: 1,600 km (2026 edition) · Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition)

Highest point

How high can you climb?

Colombia’s highest peak towers 3,110 m above Angola’s

Angola: 2,620 m (2026 edition) · Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition)

Farmland

How much of the land is farmed?

Colombia and Angola are practically level

Angola: 36.3% (2024) · Colombia: 36.5% (2024)

How far apart are they?

People

Who lives there, and how closely

Population

How many people live there?

Colombia has 37% more people than Angola

Angola: 39 million (2025) · Colombia: 53.4 million (2025)

Population density

How crowded is it?

Colombia is 54% more densely populated than Angola

Angola: 31 per km² (2025) · Colombia: 48 per km² (2025)

Height of men

How tall are the men?

Men in Colombia are 3.4 cm taller than in Angola

Angola: 168.5 cm (2019) · Colombia: 171.9 cm (2019)

Height of women

How tall are the women?

Angola and Colombia are practically level

Angola: 158.1 cm (2019) · Colombia: 158 cm (2019)

Median age

How old is the typical person?

The typical person in Colombia is 15 years older than in Angola

Angola: 16.5 years (2023) · Colombia: 31.6 years (2023)

Fertility rate

How many children per woman?

Women in Angola have 3.4 more children on average than in Colombia

Angola: 5.05 children per woman (2024) · Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024)

Aged 65 and over

How many people are 65 or older?

10% of people in Colombia are 65 or older, versus 2.9% in Angola

Angola: 2.9% (2025) · Colombia: 10.2% (2025)

Refugees hosted per 1,000 residents

How many refugees does it host?

Angola hosts 24 times as many refugees per resident as Colombia

Angola: 0.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025)

Nobel laureates per 10 million people

How many Nobel laureates were born there?

Colombia has produced 0.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Angola none

Angola: 0 (2026) · Colombia: 0.4 (2026)

Official languages

How many official languages?

Angola and Colombia are practically level

Angola: 1 (2026) · Colombia: 1 (2026)

What shape is the population?

Money

What an economy looks like per person

Economy size (GDP)

How big is the economy?

Colombia’s economy is 3.7 times the size of Angola’s

Angola: $122 billion (2025) · Colombia: $457 billion (2025)

GDP per person (PPP)

How much is produced per person?

Colombia produces 2.2 times as much per person as Angola

Angola: Int$10,251 (2025) · Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025)

Income inequality (Gini)

How evenly is income shared?

Income is more unequally shared in Colombia than in Angola (Gini 3.1 points higher)

Angola: 51.3 (2018) · Colombia: 54.4 (2024)

Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day)

How many live on less than $3 a day?

39% of people in Angola live on less than $3 a day, versus 8.5% in Colombia

Angola: 39.3% (2018) · Colombia: 8.5% (2024)

Unemployment

How many people are looking for work?

Unemployment is 14% in Angola, versus 8.3% in Colombia

Angola: 14.1% (2025) · Colombia: 8.3% (2025)

Military spending

How much goes to the military?

Colombia spends 3.2% of its GDP on the military, Angola 1.4%

Angola: 1.4% (2025) · Colombia: 3.2% (2025)

Tax revenue (central government)

How much does the central government collect in tax?

Colombia’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Angola’s 7.6%

Angola: 7.6% (2024) · Colombia: 15.2% (2024)

Price level (US = 100)

How expensive is it?

Colombia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.2× Angola’s

Angola: 31% (2025) · Colombia: 38% (2025)

Health

Long lives, small beginnings

Health spending per person

How much is spent on health?

Colombia spends 8.5 times as much on health per person as Angola

Angola: $76 (2023) · Colombia: $644 (2024)

Life expectancy

How long do people live?

People in Colombia live 13 years longer than in Angola

Angola: 64.8 years (2024) · Colombia: 77.9 years (2024)

Infant mortality

How many babies don’t reach their first birthday?

A baby in Angola is 3.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Colombia

Angola: 32.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024)

Doctors

How many doctors are there?

Colombia has 10 times as many doctors per person as Angola

Angola: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

Hospital beds

How many hospital beds are there?

Colombia has 2.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Angola

Angola: 0.8 per 1,000 (2019) · Colombia: 1.7 per 1,000 (2020)

Suicide rate

How common is suicide?

The suicide rate in Angola is 2.6 times that in Colombia

Angola: 17.6 per 100k (2023) · Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023)

Adult obesity

How common is obesity?

25% of adults in Colombia are obese, versus 12% in Angola

Angola: 11.8% (2024) · Colombia: 25.3% (2024)

Smoking

How many adults smoke?

Angola: no data · Colombia: 8% (2024)

Everyday life

Plates, glasses and happiness

Life satisfaction

How do people rate their lives?

People in Colombia rate their lives 2.25 points higher than in Angola

Angola: 3.80 (2017) · Colombia: 6.04 (2025)

Alcohol consumption

How much do people drink?

Adults in Colombia drink 29% more alcohol than in Angola

Angola: 3.8 litres (2023) · Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023)

Meat supply

How much meat is on the menu?

Colombia has 3.4 times as much meat per person as Angola

Angola: 18.6 kg (2023) · Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023)

Daily calories

How much food is there per day?

Colombia has 727 kcal more food per person per day than Angola

Angola: 2,399 kcal (2023) · Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023)

Working hours

How long do people work?

Workers in Colombia put in 356 more hours a year than in Angola

Angola: 2,115 hours (2023) · Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023)

Years of schooling

How long do people go to school?

Adults in Colombia went to school 3.1 years longer than in Angola

Angola: 6 years (2023) · Colombia: 9 years (2023)

Tourists per resident

How many tourists visit?

Colombia welcomed 24 times as many tourists per resident as Angola (2019)

Angola: 0.0036 (2022) · Colombia: 0.09 (2022)

World Heritage sites

How many World Heritage sites?

Colombia has 8 more World Heritage sites than Angola (9 against 1)

Angola: 1 (2026) · Colombia: 9 (2026)

Olympic medals (all time)

How many Olympic medals has it won?

Colombia has won 38 Olympic medals, Angola none

Angola: 0 (2026 edition) · Colombia: 38 (2026 edition)

Connected

Online, electrified, urban

Internet users

How many people are online?

79% of people in Colombia are online, versus 41% in Angola

Angola: 41% (2024) · Colombia: 79% (2024)

Fixed broadband download speed

How fast is home internet?

Home internet in Colombia is 6.5 times as fast as in Angola

Angola: 38 Mbps (2026) · Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026)

Access to electricity

Who has electricity at home?

99% of people in Colombia have electricity, versus 56% in Angola

Angola: 55.5% (2024) · Colombia: 98.9% (2024)

Urban population

How many live in cities?

79% of people in Colombia live in cities, versus 71% in Angola

Angola: 71% (2025) · Colombia: 79% (2025)

Mobile subscriptions

How many phones per person?

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Angola 70

Angola: 70 (2024) · Colombia: 174 (2024)

Railway network

How much railway is there?

Angola’s railway network is 29% longer than Colombia’s

Angola: 2,761 km (2022) · Colombia: 2,141 km (2019)

Air passengers per resident

How much do they fly?

Airlines from Colombia fly 23 times as many passengers per resident as those from Angola

Angola: 0.03 (2023) · Colombia: 0.79 (2023)

Planet

Air, forests and energy

Forest cover

How much of the land is forest?

Forest covers 54% of Colombia, but only 51% of Angola

Angola: 51.2% (2024) · Colombia: 53.7% (2024)

CO₂ per person

How much CO₂ does each person emit?

The average person in Colombia emits 3 times as much CO₂ as someone in Angola

Angola: 0.6 t (2024) · Colombia: 1.8 t (2024)

Renewable electricity

How green is the power grid?

77% of Colombia’s electricity is renewable, versus 74% in Angola

Angola: 73.7% (2024) · Colombia: 77% (2025)

Air pollution (PM2.5)

How clean is the air?

The air in Angola carries 73% more fine dust than in Colombia

Angola: 26.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024)

Where does the power come from?

Safety

Measured risk, not vibes

Homicide rate

How common is murder?

You are 6.1 times as likely to be murdered in Colombia as in Angola

Angola: 4.1 per 100k (2016) · Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023)

Road deaths

How dangerous are the roads?

Roads in Colombia are 34% deadlier than in Angola

Angola: 20 per 100k (2023) · Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023)

Climate

What the year feels like

Average temperature

How warm is it?

Colombia is on average 1.7 °C warmer than Angola

Angola: 22.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

Rainfall

How much rain falls?

Colombia gets 2.9 times as much rain as Angola

Angola: 1,105 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg)

What does the year feel like?

Between them

People, goods and passports that cross from one to the other

Who has moved between them?
Can they visit without a visa?
What do they sell each other?
Have they met on the pitch?
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Quick answers

Is Angola bigger than Colombia?

Angola is larger. Angola is 9% bigger than Colombia.

Which has more people, Angola or Colombia?

Colombia has 37% more people than Angola (2025 estimates).

Where do people live longer, Angola or Colombia?

People in Colombia live 13 years longer than in Angola. Life expectancy at birth is 64.8 years in Angola and 77.9 in Colombia.

Are people taller in Angola or Colombia?

Men in Colombia are 3.4 cm taller than in Angola (NCD-RisC, cohort born 2019).

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