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Demographics development according to the United Nations. According to the 2022 revision of the world factbook the total population was 34,795,287 in 2022. [8] The proportion of children below the age of 14 in 2020 was 47.83%, 49.87% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.3% was 65 years or older.
They are the second biggest ethnic group in the country and make up 25% of the total population of Angola. [ citation needed ] The Ambundu nowadays live in the region stretching to the East from Angola's capital city of Luanda (see map).
The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses, and due to rapid population growth. Some groups have alleged that there is deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani ...
Left: Chokwe people distribution in Angola, Congo and Zambia (approx); Right: Angola ethnic groups map. The Chokwe were once one of the twelve clans constituting the Lunda Empire in 17th- and 18th-century Angola . [ 4 ]
There are over 100 distinct ethnic groups and languages/dialects in Angola. Although Portuguese is the official language, for many black Angolans it is a second or even third language. The three dominant ethnic groups are the Ovimbundu , Mbundu (better called Ambundu, speaking Kimbundu) and the Bakongo .
Portuguese was quickly adopted by Angolans in the mid-twentieth century as a lingua franca among the various ethnic groups. After the Angolan Civil War, many people moved to the cities where they learned Portuguese. When they returned to the countryside, more people were speaking Portuguese as a first language.