Luanda, Oct. 30, 2025 (Lusa) - Between 2018 and the first half of 2025, Angola created more than 1.1 million jobs, "the result of consistent and articulated employability policies," the government said on Thursday.
The data provided by the Minister of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security (MAPTSS), Teresa Dias, at the opening of the national statistical seminar, also indicates that the labour market generated 225,157 new jobs in 2024, an increase of 17% compared to 2023.
The Angola Employment Inquiry (IEA) 2024, published in September this year by the National Statistics Institute (INE), revealed that, in total, the unemployment rate in Angola in 2024 was 31.5%, corresponding to 5.6 million people out of work, with unemployment higher in urban areas (34.3%) than in rural areas (26.4%).
Figures for the second quarter of this year indicate that the unemployment rate stood at 28.8%, compared to 29.4% in the previous quarter.
The MAPTSS minister stressed that between 2024 and the first half of 2025, the public sector registered 426,632 civil servants and administrative agents, reflecting the ongoing effort to consolidate public administration and regularise employment relationships.
In the first half of this year, the categories of 4,886 retiring civil servants were updated, 138 managers ended their terms of office and 508 civil servants with more than 11 years of service.
The National School of Administration and Public Policy trained 34,216 civil servants and administrative agents, demonstrating the firm commitment to training and upgrading state staff, said Teresa Dias.
From 2017 to the first half of this year, more than 669,000 people received vocational training, 270 private centres were licensed, and 36,990 certificates were approved, the minister pointed out, stressing that the partnership with the private sector has been growing.
Also concerning social protection, Teresa Dias highlighted the milestone of three million insured people and 170,000 pensioners, raising coverage from 18.3% in 2020 to 24.5% in 2024, "remarkable progress towards social security inclusion and labour formalisation".
According to the minister, these results reflect technical progress and institutional commitment to good international practices in labour statistics, and call for strengthening the deadlines for the submission of statistical information by provider bodies, ensuring the harmonisation of sectoral data and its timely integration into the national planning system.
"Meeting deadlines means ensuring quality, and statistical quality means ensuring informed political decisions and credible data," she said.
According to the minister, this initiative is part of the government's vision of strengthening the culture of evidence-based planning, where statistics is a fundamental axis in the formulation, execution and evaluation of public policies, in a context where governance challenges require swift, consistent and sustained responses.
"Statistical data is the basis for transparency, efficiency and institutional trust," he said, stressing that "statistics is today the true heart of a modern public administration" to understand the social and economic reality, measure the impact of policies and define priorities "with technical rigour and objectivity".
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