Angola and Mozambique have the youngest population among Portuguese-speaking countries

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Angola and Mozambique have the youngest population among Portuguese-speaking countries

11:41 CAT | 18 Oct 2017

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Among Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola and Mozambique have the youngest population, Portugal the oldest, and Macau the most middle-aged.

Angola, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Sao Tome and Principe and Guinea Bissau have the youngest population of Portuguese-speaking countries, with the age group 0-14 years exceeding 40 percent of the total population, a UN report details.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, entitled “Accessing the State of the World’s Population – 2017”, shows that Angola has the highest percentage of young people (47 percent) among the Lusophone countries, ahead of Mozambique (45 percent), Timor-Leste (44 percent), Sao Tome and Principe (43 percent) and Guinea-Bissau (41 percent).

In Portugal, however, only 14 percent of the population are in that age group, followed by Brazil (22 percent), Cape Verde (30 percent) and Equatorial Guinea (37 percent). Macau, which in the report is associated with China, has only 13 percent of population between 0 and 14 years old.

Portugal has the highest number of elderly (aged 65 or above), at 22 percent of the population, followed by Macao (10 percent), Brazil (9 percent), Cape Verde and Timor-Leste (both with 4 percent), Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome and Principe (all with 3 percent), and Angola (2 percent).

Macao’s population in the main age range (15-64) is 77 percent, followed by Brazil (70 percent), Cape Verde and Portugal ( Guinea-Bissau (56 percent), Sao Tome and Principe (54 percent), Timor-Leste (53 percent), Mozambique (52 percent) and Angola (51 percent).

UNFPA indicates in the report that at the end of 2016 Brazil had 209.3 million inhabitants, followed by Angola (29.8 million), Mozambique (29.7 million), Portugal (10.3 million), Guinea-Bissau (1.9 million), Equatorial Guinea and Timor-Leste (both with 1.3 million), Cape Verde (500,000) and Sao Tome and Principe (200,000). Macau has a population of 600,000 people.

Source: Lusa