Cape Verde 
Facts
Population: 423,613 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 36.9% (male 78,971/female 77,524)
15-64 years: 56.4% (male 116,751/female 122,065)
65 years and over: 6.7% (male 10,423/female 17,879) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.606% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 24.4 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 6.5 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -11.83 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.019 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.956 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.583 male(s)/female
total population: 0.948 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 45.27 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 50.31 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 40.08 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.02 years
male: 67.69 years
female: 74.44 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 3.28 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.035% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 775 (2001).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 225 (as of 2001).
Nationality: noun: Cape Verdean(s)
adjective: Cape Verdean.
Ethnic groups: Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1%.
Religions: Roman Catholic (infused with indigenous beliefs), Protestant (mostly Church of the Nazarene).
Languages: Portuguese, Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West African words).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 76.6%
male: 85.8%
female: 69.2% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $3.129 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 5.5% (2005 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $6,000 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12.1%
industry: 21.9%
services: 66% (2004 est.).
Labor force: 120,600 (1990).
Population below poverty line: 30% (2000).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.7% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 21% (2000 est.).
Budget: revenues: $324.6 million
expenditures: $370.4 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: bananas, corn, beans, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, coffee, peanuts; fish.
Industries: food and beverages, fish processing, shoes and garments, salt mining, ship repair.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Electricity - production: 44 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 40.92 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $96.71 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: fuel, shoes, garments, fish, hides.
Exports - partners: Spain 38.2%, Portugal 33.3%, US 9.2%, Morocco 5.4% (2005).
Imports: $495.1 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, industrial products, transport equipment, fuels.
Imports - partners: Portugal 40.8%, Italy 7.8%, Netherlands 7.2%, Spain 5.4%, Brazil 5.3%, France 4.7%, Belgium 4.6% (2005).
Debt - external: $325 million (2002).
Economic aid - recipient: $136 million (1999).
Currency (code): Cape Verdean escudo (CVE).
Exchange rates: Cape Verdean escudos (CVE) per US dollar - 87.946 (2006), 88.67 (2005), 88.808 (2004), 97.703 (2003), 117.168 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
Terra Nova
(Catholic-oriented monthly), San Vincente
Cape Verde in the News
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