Cape Verde
- 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
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Gross expenditure on research & development as a share of GDP.
Full-time-equivalent researchers per million people.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From uninhabited mid-Atlantic islands and the first European town in the tropics, through the Atlantic slave trade, recurring famine and a distinctive Creole culture, to Amílcar Cabral's liberation struggle, independence in 1975, and one of Africa's most stable democracies.
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