Transport and infrastructure in Cape Verde

Our listing of the primary types of transport compares the infrastructure of Cape Verde with the average of all countries in Africa. The traffic routes have noticeable defects in many places and are often not in particularly good condition.

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Road traffic

The network of roads and highways has a total length of 1,350 km. For each of the country's 587,925 inhabitants, this corresponds to 2.30 meters. This puts Cape Verde in 165th place in the global ranking. However, the country's size and population density of around 146 inhabitants per km² must also be taken into account. Countries with fewer inhabitants in the same or even larger area naturally achieve quite different values here and have to connect remote areas to the transport network despite a smaller population.

With an average of 142 traffic fatalities per year (2013 - 2019), road traffic in Cape Verde is considered quite dangerous. This corresponds to 25.4 accident fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year. By comparison, this figure is 12.3 in the USA and 17.0 worldwide.

In Cape Verde, traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, i.e. people drive in the right-hand lane and overtake on the left. Oncoming traffic comes toward you on the left side. This regulation was enforced on June 1st, 1928. Here you can also find an overview of all countries with left-hand traffic.

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Cape Verde
Roadways	1,400 km	2,296.21 km	334.99 m
Railroads	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Waterways	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Commercial harbors	46	78.24	0.011
Airports	6	10.21	1.489

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Africa
Roadways	2,997,800 km	2,151.40 km	98.86 m
Railroads	88,600 km	63.57 km	2.92 m
Waterways	68,400 km	49.09 km	2.26 m
Commercial harbors	7,905	5.67	0.000
Airports	413	0.30	0.000

Data sources used

• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (World Health Organization)
• UNCTAD
• Internation Union of Railways (UIC)
• CIA Factbook
• OECD Statistics
• Wikipedia (german)

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