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Medical and pharma in Angola

Where care is, who cannot reach it, who is expanding, and how much of the region's medicine is made at home.

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Exports of the pillar's goods, 2024US$1.7m-18% on five years earlier · 12th in SADC
Deals in the last 12 months01 tracked in Angola in all

Life expectancy at birth: Angola against SADC


Life expectancy at birth, years, latest year for each country. Click a bar for that country's medical and pharma page.

020406080Seychelles76.3Mauritius73.8Botswana69.3Malawi67.6Namibia67.5Tanzania67.2Comoros67.0Zambia66.5South Africa66.3Angola64.8Eswatini64.3Madagascar63.8Mozambique63.8Zimbabwe63.1DRC62.1Lesotho57.8median 66.4

Source: World Bank·dotzedw Insights Centre

Angola's trade in medical and pharma goods since 2012


Exports and imports of the products in this pillar's subsectors, each product counted once, US$

0$200m$400m$600m$800m2012201420162018202020222024ExportsUS$1.7mImportsUS$381m
Source: CEPII BACI·dotzedw Insights Centre

Subsectors

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Hospitals in Angola

Tracks
Hospitals by level and owner, private groups' footprints, new and expanded hospitals, specialist services, travel time to a major hospital.
Signals ahead
Hospital construction tenders, private groups' expansion plans, medical scheme growth.

Select a figure for its trend. Source: dotzedw deals tracker.

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What Angola sells abroad across medical and pharma


Angola's exports by subsector, 2024, US$, with its share of SADC's exports. A product can count in two subsectors.

Medical devices, diagnostics and laboratoriesUS$1.4m0.4% of SADC · +4% on five years earlier
Medicine and vaccine manufacturingUS$288k0% of SADC · -61% on five years earlier
Pharmacy and medicine distributionUS$135k0% of SADC · -81% on five years earlier
Source: CEPII BACI·dotzedw Insights Centre

0 deals in the last 12 months involving Angola, placed in subsectors by what they say.

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