The number of Angolan civil servants grew by 4.5% in 2024 to 426,632 people, the largest increase in recent years, as a result of the regularization of contractual ties, the government announced on Monday.
The figures were presented by the Secretary of State for Public Administration, Domingos da Silva Filipe, during a presentation at the Ministry of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security (MAPTSS).
According to Domingos Filipe, this increase, the largest in recent years, reflects a “strengthening of employment ties,” allowing employees who had been on fixed-term contracts to be integrated into the permanent staff, stressing that this does not represent additional expenditure.
This figure, which represents about 3.4% of Angola’s employed population, excludes defense and security staff (military and paramilitary), who number around 500,000.
About 56.5% of Angolan civil servants are men, an imbalance that highlights the need to promote policies to strengthen gender equality, acknowledged the Secretary of State, justifying the gap with higher levels of higher education among men compared to women.
The average salary of an Angolan civil servant is 157,000 kwanzas (€146), and cannot be lower than 100,000 kwanzas (€93).
Full professors earn the highest salaries, reaching up to 750,000 kwanzas (€698), with “a new remuneration framework in the civil service” currently under development, the government official added.
Luanda, with 11% of the total, followed by Huíla and Huambo, are the provinces with the highest concentration of civil servants, with education accounting for 42%, health 17%, and justice 3% of the workforce.
Domingos Filipe also addressed the issue of category updates and career progression, which are expected to cover 41,000 civil servants under the general regime, with more than 38,000 cases already reviewed.
The State’s expenditure on civil servants (excluding military and paramilitary staff) amounts to around seven billion kwanzas per year (€6.5 million), with updates and different allowances expected to have a financial impact of around 2%.
Last year, 10 public recruitment competitions were concluded, hiring an additional 2,790 civil servants, while eight more competitions are currently underway this year.
As for the Integrated Citizen Service (SIAC), a model similar to Portugal’s Citizen Shops, since its launch in 2007 it has operated 16 sub-units in 12 provinces, with plans to build eight more sub-units nationwide by 2027.
In the first half of 2025, 1.3 million services were provided, with an average waiting time of 34 minutes and an average service time of 11 minutes.
During this period, 51 complaints were registered, with professionalism, waiting time, and delays in the delivery of documents being the main grievances of Angolan citizens.
Source: Lusa
