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Cape Verde

16.0N 24.0W · 27 EVENTS · 9 DOMAINS
INDEPENDENCE FROM PORTUGAL · 5 JULY 1975
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1991 – present · A stable democracy and a global people
5 EVENTS
2001 · Peaceful alternation of power 2 REFS
2004 · Cesária Évora and morna go global 2 REFS
1975 – 1991 · The broken union and the turn to democracy
4 EVENTS
14 November 1980 · Bissau coup ends the union 3 REFS
January–February 1991 · First multiparty elections 3 REFS
1956 – 1975 · Cabral, the PAIGC, and independence
5 EVENTS
1956 · Cabral founds the PAIGC 3 REFS
1963 · Armed struggle begins on the mainland 3 REFS
1770 – 1956 · Creole culture, the coaling port, and the years of hunger
5 EVENTS
1867–1930 · The morna and Creole letters 3 REFS
1941–43 and 1947–48 · The twentieth-century famines 3 REFS
c. 1500 – 1770 · Entrepôt of the slave trade — and its decline
4 EVENTS
16th century · A sorting-house of the slave trade 4 REFS
1712 · Cassard's French raid destroys the city 3 REFS
c. 1456 – 1550 · Uninhabited islands and the first town in the tropics
4 EVENTS
c. 1456 · Portuguese reach the uninhabited islands 3 REFS
1462 · Ribeira Grande founded on Santiago 3 REFS
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Quick facts · atlas reference
Capital
Praia
Population
550,000
Area
4,033 km²
Region
Western Africa
Languages
Portuguese
Currency
Cape Verdean escudo (Esc)
Demonym
Cape Verdian
UN member
Yes
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Economy

GDP
$3.1 B’25 WB-WDI
GDP per capita
$5,796’25 WB-WDI
GDP growth
6.3%’25 WB-WDI
Inflation
2.3%’25 WB-WDI
Trade openness
95.3%’25 WB-WDI

Society

Population
527,000’25 WB-WDI
Life expectancy
76.2 yrs’24 WB-WDI
Urban population
77.6%’25 WB-WDI
Fertility rate
1.5’24 WB-WDI
Literacy rate
88.5%’24 WB-WDI

Governance

Voice & accountability
70.7’24 WB-WGI
Political stability
79.0’24 WB-WGI
Government effectiveness
59.4’24 WB-WGI
Regulatory quality
55.6’24 WB-WGI
Rule of law
64.3’24 WB-WGI
Control of corruption
66.9’24 WB-WGI

Health

Health spending
5.8%’23 WB-WHO
Physicians
0.73’23 WB-WHO
Under-5 mortality
11.1’24 WB-UNICEF-WHO
Measles immunisation
95.0%’24 WB-UNICEF-WHO

Education

Adult literacy
88.5%’24 WB-UNESCO
Education spending
4.3%’23 WB-UNESCO
Primary enrolment
103.0%’22 WB-UNESCO
Secondary enrolment
96.4%’22 WB-UNESCO
Tertiary enrolment
24.3%’18 WB-UNESCO

Technology

R&D spending
0.1%’11 WB-UNESCO
Researchers (per million)
125’14 WB-UNESCO
Internet users
74.7%’24 WB-ITU
Mobile subscriptions
112’24 WB-ITU
High-tech exports
1.2%’23 WB-WDI

Geography

Land area
4,030 km²’23 WB-WDI
Forest area
11.6%’23 WB-WDI
Agricultural land
19.6%’23 WB-WDI
CO₂ per capita (t)
1.3’24 WB-WDI
Renewable energy
21.8%’22 WB-WDI

Resources

Resource rents
17.7%’21 WB-WDI
Oil rents
0.0%’21 WB-WDI
Mineral rents
0.0%’21 WB-WDI
Forest rents
0.5%’21 WB-WDI
Electricity access
98.4%’24 WB-WDI

Military

Military burden
0.6%’24 WB-SIPRI
Defense spending
$17 M’24 WB-SIPRI
Armed forces
1,000’20 WB-SIPRI

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