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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Praia	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Cape Verde	United States
Population:	549,935	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	136.5	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 24.2 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	19.49 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.63 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.58 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Cape Verde	United States
Political stability:	72	73
Civil rights:	64	83
Health:	51	74
Climate:	76	64
Cost of Living:	46	23
Popularity:	33	86

Economy

	Cape Verde	United States
Currency:	Cape Verdean Escudo (1 CVE = 100 Centavos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	13.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.11 %	1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	3,630 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	58 (moderate)	69 (moderate)

	CPV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,982 M US$	3.60 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	1,995 M US$	3.63 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	1,004 M US$	1.83 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	1,291 M US$	2.35 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	CPV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,350 km	2.45 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Harbours:	44	0.080	3,673	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	668,078.95 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	395.00 m kWh	718,266.70 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	542,716.00 t	986.87 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	57,511	105	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	595,681	1083	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	38	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	319,905	582	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Cape Verde	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.10	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.77	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.29 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	9.1 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Cape Verde and United States

	Cape Verde	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.1 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.5 °C	7.3 °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 %
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 %