ACOG - Cape Verde  - IBM

Geography

Location: Western Africa, group of Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal

Area:
total area: 4,030 sq km
land area: 4,030 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Rhode Island

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 965 km


People

Population: 435,983 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 50% (female 106,539; male 110,301)
15-64 years: 47% (female 114,931; male 88,029)
65 years and over: 3% (female 9,781; male 6,402)

Population growth rate: 2.98% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 45.32 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.65 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -6.88 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 55.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 63.01 years
male: 61.1 years
female: 65.01 years

Total fertility rate: 6.23 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1%

Religions: Roman Catholicism fused with indigenous beliefs

Languages: Portuguese, Crioulo, a blend of Portuguese and West African words

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 63%
male: 75%
female: 53%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Cape Verde
conventional short form: Cape Verde

Type: republic

Capital: Praia

Independence: 5 July 1975 (from Portugal)

Constitution: new constitution came into force 25 September 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $410 million

National product real growth rate: 3.5%

National product per capita: $1,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7%

Unemployment rate: 26%

Electricity:
capacity: 15,000 kW
production: 40 million kWh
consumption per capita: 73 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.