A democracy under pressure

In the Round 10 of the Afrobarometer, conducted in Angola between October 2024 and January 2025, only 18.3% of Angolans say they are satisfied or very satisfied with the way democracy works in their country. In Round 8 (2019) the figure was 31.1%; in Round 9 (2022) it had already fallen to 24.0%.

The trend is clear, consistent and comparable: in none of the three rounds did satisfaction exceed one third of citizens. Angola is, among the 30 countries covered by Round 10, in the bottom quartile for democratic satisfaction.

Comparison with peers

Ghana leads the regional comparison with 49.2% of citizens satisfied — nearly three times the Angolan figure. South Africa, despite its well-known institutional problems, reaches 28.6%. Mozambique, amid its post-electoral crisis, records 21.6%. Angola, at 18.3%, is below even Mozambique.

The comparative reading is important: democratic dissatisfaction is not a uniquely Angolan phenomenon. But its depth and its pace of deterioration in Angola — a fall of nearly 13 percentage points in five years — place the country in a category of its own.