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Land

Size, shape and altitude

Total area

How big is it, really?

Sweden fits inside Angola 2.4 times

Angola: 1,246,700 km² (2024) · Sweden: 528,860 km² (2024)

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Coastline

How much coast is there?

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

Angola: 1,600 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Highest point

How high can you climb?

Angola’s highest peak towers 520 m above Sweden’s

Angola: 2,620 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland

How much of the land is farmed?

Farmland covers 36% of Angola, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Angola: 36.3% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

How far apart are they?

People

Who lives there, and how closely

Population

How many people live there?

Angola has 3.7 times as many people as Sweden

Angola: 39 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Population density

How crowded is it?

Angola is 20% more densely populated than Sweden

Angola: 31 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

Height of men

How tall are the men?

Men in Sweden are 12.0 cm taller than in Angola

Angola: 168.5 cm (2019) · Sweden: 180.5 cm (2019)

Height of women

How tall are the women?

Women in Sweden are 8.6 cm taller than in Angola

Angola: 158.1 cm (2019) · Sweden: 166.7 cm (2019)

Median age

How old is the typical person?

The typical person in Sweden is 23 years older than in Angola

Angola: 16.5 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

Fertility rate

How many children per woman?

Women in Angola have 3.6 more children on average than in Sweden

Angola: 5.05 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

Aged 65 and over

How many people are 65 or older?

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 2.9% in Angola

Angola: 2.9% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Refugees hosted per 1,000 residents

How many refugees does it host?

Sweden hosts 21 times as many refugees per resident as Angola

Angola: 0.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Nobel laureates per 10 million people

How many Nobel laureates were born there?

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Angola none

Angola: 0 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Official languages

How many official languages?

Angola and Sweden are practically level

Angola: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

What shape is the population?

Money

What an economy looks like per person

Economy size (GDP)

How big is the economy?

Sweden’s economy is 5.5 times the size of Angola’s

Angola: $122 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

GDP per person (PPP)

How much is produced per person?

Sweden produces 7.1 times as much per person as Angola

Angola: Int$10,251 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income inequality (Gini)

How evenly is income shared?

Income is more unequally shared in Angola than in Sweden (Gini 22 points higher)

Angola: 51.3 (2018) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

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 0.8% in Sweden

Angola: 39.3% (2018) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment

How many people are looking for work?

Unemployment is 14% in Angola, versus 8.7% in Sweden

Angola: 14.1% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Military spending

How much goes to the military?

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Angola 1.4%

Angola: 1.4% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Tax revenue (central government)

How much does the central government collect in tax?

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Angola’s 7.6%

Angola: 7.6% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Price level (US = 100)

How expensive is it?

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 2.9× Angola’s

Angola: 31% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Health

Long lives, small beginnings

Health spending per person

How much is spent on health?

Sweden spends 85 times as much on health per person as Angola

Angola: $76 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

Life expectancy

How long do people live?

People in Sweden live 19 years longer than in Angola

Angola: 64.8 years (2024) · Sweden: 84.1 years (2024)

Infant mortality

How many babies don’t reach their first birthday?

A baby in Angola is 16 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Angola: 32.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Doctors

How many doctors are there?

Sweden has 18 times as many doctors per person as Angola

Angola: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Hospital beds

How many hospital beds are there?

Sweden has 2.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Angola

Angola: 0.8 per 1,000 (2019) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

Suicide rate

How common is suicide?

The suicide rate in Angola is 39% higher than in Sweden

Angola: 17.6 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

Adult obesity

How common is obesity?

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 12% in Angola

Angola: 11.8% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

Smoking

How many adults smoke?

Angola: no data · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

Everyday life

Plates, glasses and happiness

Life satisfaction

How do people rate their lives?

People in Sweden rate their lives 3.46 points higher than in Angola

Angola: 3.80 (2017) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Alcohol consumption

How much do people drink?

Adults in Sweden drink 2.3 times as much alcohol as in Angola

Angola: 3.8 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Meat supply

How much meat is on the menu?

Sweden has 3.7 times as much meat per person as Angola

Angola: 18.6 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Daily calories

How much food is there per day?

Sweden has 967 kcal more food per person per day than Angola

Angola: 2,399 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Working hours

How long do people work?

Workers in Angola put in 683 more hours a year than in Sweden

Angola: 2,115 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Years of schooling

How long do people go to school?

Adults in Sweden went to school 6.8 years longer than in Angola

Angola: 6 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Tourists per resident

How many tourists visit?

Sweden welcomed 173 times as many tourists per resident as Angola (2019)

Angola: 0.0036 (2022) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

World Heritage sites

How many World Heritage sites?

Sweden has 14 more World Heritage sites than Angola (15 against 1)

Angola: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Olympic medals (all time)

How many Olympic medals has it won?

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Angola none

Angola: 0 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

Connected

Online, electrified, urban

Internet users

How many people are online?

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 41% in Angola

Angola: 41% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Fixed broadband download speed

How fast is home internet?

Home internet in Sweden is 6.6 times as fast as in Angola

Angola: 38 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

Access to electricity

Who has electricity at home?

100% of people in Sweden have electricity, versus 56% in Angola

Angola: 55.5% (2024) · Sweden: 100% (2024)

Urban population

How many live in cities?

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 71% in Angola

Angola: 71% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Mobile subscriptions

How many phones per person?

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Angola 70

Angola: 70 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Railway network

How much railway is there?

Sweden’s railway network is 3.5 times as long as Angola’s

Angola: 2,761 km (2022) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Air passengers per resident

How much do they fly?

Airlines from Sweden fly 55 times as many passengers per resident as those from Angola

Angola: 0.03 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Planet

Air, forests and energy

Forest cover

How much of the land is forest?

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 51% of Angola

Angola: 51.2% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

CO₂ per person

How much CO₂ does each person emit?

The average person in Sweden emits 6.1 times as much CO₂ as someone in Angola

Angola: 0.6 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

Renewable electricity

How green is the power grid?

74% of Angola’s electricity is renewable, versus 71% in Sweden

Angola: 73.7% (2024) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

Air pollution (PM2.5)

How clean is the air?

The air in Angola carries 4.6 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Angola: 26.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

Where does the power come from?

Safety

Measured risk, not vibes

Homicide rate

How common is murder?

You are 3.6 times as likely to be murdered in Angola as in Sweden

Angola: 4.1 per 100k (2016) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Road deaths

How dangerous are the roads?

Roads in Angola are 5.9 times as deadly as in Sweden

Angola: 20 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Climate

What the year feels like

Average temperature

How warm is it?

Angola is on average 18.4 °C warmer than Sweden

Angola: 22.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Rainfall

How much rain falls?

Angola gets 38% more rain than Sweden

Angola: 1,105 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 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 Sweden?

Angola is larger. Sweden fits inside Angola 2.4 times.

Which has more people, Angola or Sweden?

Angola has 3.7 times as many people as Sweden (2025 estimates).

Where do people live longer, Angola or Sweden?

People in Sweden live 19 years longer than in Angola. Life expectancy at birth is 64.8 years in Angola and 84.1 in Sweden.

Are people taller in Angola or Sweden?

Men in Sweden are 12.0 cm taller than in Angola (NCD-RisC, cohort born 2019).

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