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Cape Verde

 

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 Cape Verde
All information: Cape Verde
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:4,030 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:549,900 328,240,000
Official language:Portuguese English

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Government

Government form:Parliamentary republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1975 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Praia Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:136.5 33.4
Life expectancy males:69.3 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:76.0 years 81.1 years
Average age:24.2 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:19.49 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:5.63 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.60 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

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Political stability:73 74
Civil rights:64 83
Health:45 74
Climate:76 64
Cost of Living:47 38
Popularity:32 85


Economy

Currency:Cape Verdean Escudo (1 CVE = 100 Centavos) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:12.3 % 3.7 %
Inflation rate:1.11 % 1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:37.50 % 36.60 %
Average income:3,243 € 58,741 €
Corruption index:58 (moderate) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:1,770 Mio €3.22 M € 19,092,826 M €58.17 M €
Gross national product:1,782 Mio €3.24 M € 19,280,405 M €58.74 M €
Exported goods:897 M €1.63 M € 2,258,389 M €6.88 M €
Imported goods:1,154 M €2.10 M € 2,773,678 M €8.45 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:1,350 km2.45 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Harbours:440.080 3,6730.011
Airports:90.016 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:367.40 m kWh668,078.95 kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:395.00 m kWh718,266.70 kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:542,716.00 t986.87 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+238 +1
Internet domain:.cv .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:57,511105 107,281,000327
Mobile phones:595,6811,083 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:380 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:319,905582 290,488,378885



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:2.10 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:0.77 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:2.4 % 10.8 %
HIV sufferers:0.29 % 0.22 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.5 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:91.0 % 77.0 %
Smokers:9.1 % 21.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Cape Verde and United States

Daytime temperatures:27.1 °C 18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:21.5 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:23.9 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:70 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:17 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:16.8 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:7.5 7.2


Native languages

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

Christianity:85.3 % 78.5 %
nondenominational:10.8 % n/a
Islam:1.8 % 1.1 %
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a 1.6 %
Hinduism:n/a 1.0 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
other:2.1 % 15.3 %