World Bank Angola – Poverty Assessment

This overview summarizes the estimates of monetary and non-monetary poverty and the profile of
the poor in Angola based on the recently released household budget survey, Inquérito sobre
Despesas, Receitas e Emprego de Angola (IDREA 2018/2019).
The last household budget survey for the measurement of poverty in Angola was the Inquérito
Integrado sobre o Bem-Estar da População (IBEP) undertaken in 2008. Given that the two surveys,
IDREA and IBEP, are not comparable for measuring the change in the monetary poverty rate, the
focus of this report is on understanding the geographic and socio-economic characteristics of
poverty in Angola, for the purpose of informing the design and targeting of more effective poverty
alleviation policies as well as providing a new baseline for the monitoring of progress toward the
reduction of poverty and the boosting of shared prosperity in the country