Country comparison Cape Verde : United States

General information

	Cape Verde	United States
Region:	Western Africa	North America
Area:	4,030 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Portuguese	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1975 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Praia	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Cape Verde	United States
Population:	555,988	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	138.0	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 26.8 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	19.06 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.58 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.58 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Cape Verde	United States
Political stability:	67	63
Civil rights:	53	81
Health:	51	71
Climate:	78	66
Cost of Living:	57	38
Popularity:	31	67

Economy

	Cape Verde	United States
Currency:	Cape Verdean Escudo (1 CVE = 100 Centavos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	15.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	0.61 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	49.77 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	3,060 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	21 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	CPV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,704 M US$	3.06 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	1,699 M US$	3.06 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	414 M US$	0.74 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	1,008 M US$	1.81 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	CPV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,350 km	2.43 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	46	0.083	3,627	0.011
Airports:	9	0.016	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	CPV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	367.40 m kWh	660,805.63 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	395.00 m kWh	710,446.99 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	620,000.00 t	1,115.13 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Cape Verde	United States
International dialing:	+238	+1
Internet domain:	.cv	.us

	CPV total	CPV per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	57,668	104	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	544,729	980	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	38	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	344,398	619	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	24,839	45	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Cape Verde	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.10	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.77	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.29 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	89.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	11.7 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Cape Verde and United States

	Cape Verde	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.5 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	23.9 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	70 %	67 %
Rain days:	1.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.5	7.2

Native languages

	Cape Verde	United States
Crioulo:	90.0 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Portuguese:	10.0 %	0.2 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Cape Verde	United States
Christianity:	85.3 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	10.8 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Islam:	1.8 %	1.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	2.1 %	15.3 %