Country or area · Western Africa · Africa · UN WPP 2024

Cabo Verde population

Cabo Verde population now

530,178

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 518,457–542,755.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 522,330

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 529,633; 95% range, 31 Dec: 518,457–542,755
Median age: 30.5
Aged 65+: 7.5%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 100 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

CPV · 1950–2100 · in brief

Cabo Verde in numbers

In mid-2023 there were 522,330 people in Cabo Verde: the 175th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 2.8 times its 1950 population of 185 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2051 at 566 thousand, then falling to 417 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 95,772 to 2.0 million.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2055; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 17.9 in 1950 and 28.9 in 2023; the projection has 54.4 in 2100. 6.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 36.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2039 at 400 thousand.

Among countries it ranks 175th in 2023, 174th in 2050 and 178th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Malta in 2039, Montenegro in 2044 and Macao in 2073. It is overtaken by Mayotte in 2045, Vanuatu in 2054 and French Guiana in 2063.

Population, mid-2023: 522,330
Rank by population, 2023: 175 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.50% · +2,589 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 130
Land area, 2023: 4,030 km²
Births, 2023: 6,440
Deaths, 2023: 2,642
Net migration, 2023: −1,226
Children per woman, 2023: 1.52
Median age, 2023: 28.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 76.1 years
In a city, 2025: 40 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 184,972
Projected, mid-2050: 566,134
Projected, mid-2100: 416,940

CPV · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Cabo Verde, 1950–2100

Cabo Verde: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	183,891		8,632	3,775	6.50	44.9
1951	estimate	186,054		8,713	3,746	6.51	45.5
1952	estimate	188,343		8,813	3,724	6.55	46.1
1953	estimate	190,521		8,897	3,746	6.58	46.4
1954	estimate	192,570		8,963	3,768	6.62	46.6
1955	estimate	194,527		9,013	3,788	6.66	46.9
1956	estimate	196,702		9,222	3,830	6.71	47.1
1957	estimate	198,993		9,444	3,869	6.75	47.4
1958	estimate	201,578		9,670	3,911	6.80	47.7
1959	estimate	204,600		9,884	3,947	6.84	48.1
1960	estimate	208,108		10,066	3,968	6.88	48.7
1961	estimate	211,941		10,147	3,899	6.92	49.4
1962	estimate	218,233		10,323	3,854	6.95	50.2
1963	estimate	225,605		10,405	3,817	6.98	51.1
1964	estimate	233,140		10,500	3,774	6.99	52.1
1965	estimate	240,872		10,612	3,735	6.99	53.0
1966	estimate	248,840		10,749	3,710	6.99	53.9
1967	estimate	257,111		10,918	3,704	6.98	54.7
1968	estimate	265,698		11,125	3,716	6.97	55.4
1969	estimate	274,630		11,375	3,750	6.95	56.0
1970	estimate	283,865		11,681	3,803	6.93	56.6
1971	estimate	291,905		12,203	3,843	6.91	57.0
1972	estimate	296,188		12,566	3,850	6.89	57.5
1973	estimate	298,584		12,834	3,831	6.86	58.0
1974	estimate	301,178		13,112	3,816	6.82	58.4
1975	estimate	303,962		13,386	3,785	6.77	59.0
1976	estimate	307,732		13,588	3,755	6.71	59.4
1977	estimate	311,178		13,715	3,679	6.64	60.0
1978	estimate	314,489		13,780	3,628	6.56	60.4
1979	estimate	317,806		13,806	3,582	6.47	60.7
1980	estimate	321,154		13,816	3,540	6.38	61.0
1981	estimate	325,448		14,005	3,535	6.27	61.3
1982	estimate	330,244		14,134	3,538	6.17	61.5
1983	estimate	335,204		14,269	3,533	6.07	61.8
1984	estimate	340,103		14,391	3,557	5.97	61.8
1985	estimate	344,907		14,616	3,512	5.92	62.3
1986	estimate	349,823		14,783	3,489	5.81	62.6
1987	estimate	354,800		14,882	3,455	5.68	62.9
1988	estimate	359,804		14,940	3,417	5.55	63.2
1989	estimate	364,853		14,986	3,378	5.45	63.6
1990	estimate	370,754		15,087	3,348	5.36	63.9
1991	estimate	380,103		15,255	3,357	5.26	64.1
1992	estimate	389,069		15,274	3,358	5.12	64.3
1993	estimate	397,761		15,158	3,352	4.95	64.5
1994	estimate	406,169		14,750	3,340	4.72	64.7
1995	estimate	414,286		14,303	3,539	4.49	63.7
1996	estimate	421,923		13,836	3,224	4.26	65.5
1997	estimate	429,239		13,472	3,149	4.05	66.1
1998	estimate	436,356		13,254	3,066	3.90	66.7
1999	estimate	443,211		12,961	2,972	3.73	67.4
2000	estimate	449,828		12,631	2,879	3.54	68.1
2001	estimate	456,807		12,318	2,809	3.37	68.7
2002	estimate	463,779		12,003	2,726	3.19	69.5
2003	estimate	470,313		11,714	2,678	3.03	70.0
2004	estimate	476,453		11,478	2,652	2.90	70.5
2005	estimate	482,286		11,059	2,632	2.73	70.9
2006	estimate	487,945		10,606	2,626	2.56	71.3
2007	estimate	493,510		10,213	2,654	2.41	71.5
2008	estimate	498,869		9,955	2,642	2.30	71.9
2009	estimate	503,841		9,872	2,656	2.25	72.1
2010	estimate	508,441		10,410	2,663	2.33	72.5
2011	estimate	511,128		10,524	2,651	2.33	72.9
2012	estimate	511,765		9,782	2,626	2.15	73.3
2013	estimate	512,145		9,425	2,646	2.07	73.5
2014	estimate	512,305		9,263	2,640	2.03	73.8
2015	estimate	512,346		8,946	2,632	1.97	74.1
2016	estimate	512,441		8,878	2,640	1.97	74.3
2017	estimate	512,668		8,616	2,623	1.93	74.7
2018	estimate	513,118		7,933	2,650	1.80	74.8
2019	estimate	513,712		7,345	2,573	1.70	75.5
2020	estimate	514,496		6,764	3,030	1.59	73.8
2021	estimate	514,863		6,494	2,918	1.55	74.4
2022	estimate	518,435		6,465	2,601	1.53	75.9
2023	estimate	521,047		6,440	2,642	1.52	76.1
2024	estimate	523,614		6,415	2,675	1.51	76.2
2025	projection	526,140	522,655–529,430	6,364	2,715	1.50	76.4
2026	projection	528,511	520,845–535,752	6,330	2,759	1.49	76.6
2027	projection	530,748	518,457–542,755	6,300	2,806	1.48	76.7
2028	projection	532,995	515,625–550,656	6,272	2,856	1.47	76.9
2029	projection	535,235	512,307–558,778	6,252	2,909	1.47	77.1
2030	projection	537,460	508,315–567,343	6,236	2,968	1.47	77.2
2031	projection	539,768	503,781–577,198	6,227	3,030	1.47	77.4
2032	projection	541,759	498,794–585,903	6,230	3,096	1.47	77.6
2033	projection	543,831	493,664–595,907	6,231	3,165	1.47	77.8
2034	projection	545,685	489,963–605,973	6,244	3,237	1.47	77.9
2035	projection	547,619	482,714–617,434	6,246	3,312	1.47	78.1
2036	projection	549,563	476,656–628,272	6,247	3,390	1.47	78.3
2037	projection	551,385	470,535–639,990	6,246	3,468	1.47	78.5
2038	projection	553,189	464,422–650,100	6,236	3,551	1.47	78.6
2039	projection	554,974	458,337–665,493	6,234	3,635	1.48	78.8
2040	projection	556,620	450,067–679,858	6,220	3,720	1.48	79.0
2041	projection	558,128	443,529–693,019	6,195	3,805	1.48	79.1
2042	projection	559,508	436,824–705,716	6,173	3,891	1.48	79.3
2043	projection	560,766	429,390–722,773	6,136	3,978	1.49	79.5
2044	projection	561,928	423,187–739,117	6,089	4,063	1.49	79.6
2045	projection	562,999	416,217–754,278	6,034	4,147	1.49	79.8
2046	projection	563,954	411,203–767,017	5,975	4,228	1.49	80.0
2047	projection	564,754	405,582–783,641	5,899	4,308	1.49	80.2
2048	projection	565,288	400,361–800,132	5,794	4,386	1.50	80.3
2049	projection	565,727	393,535–817,280	5,682	4,467	1.50	80.5
2050	projection	566,068	384,860–828,234	5,549	4,546	1.50	80.7
2051	projection	566,200	376,624–849,038	5,416	4,624	1.50	80.8
2052	projection	566,202	368,781–863,264	5,267	4,701	1.50	81.0
2053	projection	566,087	362,970–880,265	5,116	4,783	1.50	81.2
2054	projection	565,735	353,600–899,002	4,971	4,865	1.50	81.3
2055	projection	565,074	345,546–916,761	4,831	4,948	1.50	81.5
2056	projection	564,250	338,894–940,548	4,706	5,028	1.50	81.6
2057	projection	563,318	329,090–955,694	4,590	5,114	1.51	81.8
2058	projection	562,169	324,183–972,373	4,486	5,203	1.51	82.0
2059	projection	560,850	317,967–990,581	4,392	5,298	1.51	82.1
2060	projection	559,258	0.3–1.0 million	4,312	5,395	1.50	82.3
2061	projection	557,599	0.3–1.0 million	4,257	5,499	1.50	82.4
2062	projection	555,721	0.3–1.1 million	4,216	5,600	1.51	82.6
2063	projection	553,641	0.3–1.1 million	4,190	5,709	1.51	82.7
2064	projection	551,501	0.3–1.1 million	4,177	5,822	1.51	82.8
2065	projection	549,307	0.3–1.1 million	4,167	5,933	1.51	83.0
2066	projection	546,922	0.3–1.1 million	4,162	6,043	1.51	83.2
2067	projection	544,333	0.3–1.2 million	4,152	6,159	1.51	83.3
2068	projection	541,548	0.3–1.2 million	4,144	6,276	1.52	83.4
2069	projection	538,779	0.2–1.2 million	4,135	6,387	1.52	83.6
2070	projection	535,875	0.2–1.2 million	4,121	6,495	1.52	83.7
2071	projection	532,937	0.2–1.3 million	4,111	6,598	1.52	83.9
2072	projection	530,081	0.2–1.3 million	4,105	6,694	1.52	84.0
2073	projection	527,043	0.2–1.3 million	4,085	6,788	1.52	84.2
2074	projection	523,912	0.2–1.3 million	4,061	6,878	1.52	84.3
2075	projection	520,668	0.2–1.3 million	4,035	6,956	1.52	84.4
2076	projection	517,282	0.2–1.3 million	4,000	7,032	1.52	84.6
2077	projection	513,824	0.2–1.4 million	3,964	7,104	1.53	84.7
2078	projection	510,341	0.2–1.4 million	3,918	7,163	1.52	84.8
2079	projection	506,768	0.2–1.4 million	3,870	7,209	1.53	85.0
2080	projection	502,981	0.2–1.5 million	3,820	7,245	1.53	85.1
2081	projection	499,123	0.2–1.5 million	3,758	7,276	1.53	85.2
2082	projection	495,171	0.2–1.5 million	3,692	7,294	1.53	85.3
2083	projection	491,158	0.2–1.6 million	3,622	7,305	1.53	85.5
2084	projection	487,186	0.2–1.6 million	3,558	7,312	1.53	85.6
2085	projection	483,042	0.2–1.6 million	3,483	7,308	1.53	85.7
2086	projection	478,869	0.2–1.6 million	3,412	7,303	1.53	85.9
2087	projection	474,700	0.1–1.6 million	3,348	7,297	1.53	86.0
2088	projection	470,490	0.1–1.7 million	3,282	7,288	1.53	86.1
2089	projection	466,253	0.1–1.7 million	3,225	7,269	1.53	86.2
2090	projection	461,884	0.1–1.7 million	3,168	7,255	1.53	86.3
2091	projection	457,585	0.1–1.8 million	3,118	7,234	1.53	86.5
2092	projection	453,303	0.1–1.8 million	3,071	7,219	1.53	86.6
2093	projection	449,017	0.1–1.9 million	3,039	7,205	1.53	86.7
2094	projection	444,661	0.1–1.9 million	3,010	7,192	1.53	86.8
2095	projection	440,337	0.1–1.9 million	2,985	7,176	1.53	87.0
2096	projection	436,028	0.1–1.9 million	2,964	7,163	1.53	87.1
2097	projection	431,782	0.1–1.9 million	2,952	7,142	1.53	87.2
2098	projection	427,516	0.1–1.9 million	2,939	7,132	1.53	87.3
2099	projection	423,318	0.1–2.0 million	2,933	7,108	1.54	87.5
2100	projection	419,053	0.1–2.0 million	2,927	7,090	1.54	87.6

Show the numbers: Cabo Verde, mid-2026, by single year of age

Cabo Verde: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	3,182	3,084
1	3,183	3,084
2	3,189	3,090
3	3,192	3,094
4	3,203	3,104
5	3,897	3,692
6	4,706	4,402
7	4,890	4,609
8	4,980	4,733
9	5,012	4,794
10	5,004	4,795
11	4,987	4,765
12	5,008	4,752
13	5,080	4,772
14	5,150	4,800
15	5,162	4,797
16	5,118	4,754
17	5,047	4,688
18	4,992	4,631
19	4,964	4,592
20	4,919	4,539
21	4,824	4,438
22	4,683	4,270
23	4,520	4,032
24	4,387	3,784
25	4,330	3,665
26	4,315	3,702
27	4,316	3,782
28	4,370	3,882
29	4,484	4,065
30	4,648	4,304
31	4,807	4,459
32	4,880	4,490
33	4,890	4,514
34	4,911	4,571
35	4,916	4,574
36	4,860	4,542
37	4,778	4,521
38	4,690	4,439
39	4,561	4,264
40	4,380	4,068
41	4,180	3,902
42	4,005	3,739
43	3,875	3,561
44	3,788	3,402
45	3,686	3,249
46	3,492	3,044
47	3,247	2,831
48	3,063	2,721
49	2,960	2,680
50	2,835	2,570
51	2,628	2,393
52	2,446	2,264
53	2,367	2,227
54	2,332	2,222
55	2,282	2,212
56	2,242	2,212
57	2,238	2,253
58	2,229	2,295
59	2,172	2,285
60	2,102	2,237
61	2,053	2,206
62	2,005	2,182
63	1,914	2,119
64	1,796	2,003
65	1,695	1,884
66	1,596	1,816
67	1,462	1,768
68	1,310	1,678
69	1,168	1,550
70	1,041	1,412
71	930	1,288
72	834	1,195
73	756	1,124
74	696	1,066
75	648	1,019
76	588	960
77	516	876
78	442	786
79	372	696
80	312	611
81	262	538
82	222	478
83	190	432
84	164	388
85	143	348
86	128	320
87	112	294
88	94	258
89	74	212
90	56	167
91	40	128
92	29	96
93	20	70
94	14	49
95	9	34
96	6	22
97	4	14
98	2	8
99	1	6
100+	1	7

CPV · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Cabo Verde, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

CPV · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Cabo Verde

On the UN's projection, Cabo Verde will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2039: 400,476 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 350,221.

100 aged 15–64

39 children

10 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 30 years: 2023–2052.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

CPV · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Cabo Verde, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Cabo Verde loses 1,203 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 312 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 1,608 (1969); its biggest loss, 7,226 (2011).

In 2024, 16,515 people living in Cabo Verde had been born in another country, 3 of every 100 people there, against 2 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

CPV · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Cabo Verde

Of every 100 babies born in Cabo Verde in 2023, 14 had a mother under 20, 67 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 19 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 14 under 20 and 20 aged 35 or older.

1950
14 · 66 · 20

2023
14 · 67 · 19

2050 · projected
6 · 64 · 30

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 6,440
Average age when women have a baby: 28.6 years; 29.7 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 39; 121 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Cabo Verde by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	16	30	76	9	2	0
15–19	1,165	2,289	2,601	884	312	68
20–24	2,195	4,007	3,616	1,252	605	311
25–29	2,023	3,274	2,756	1,513	1,061	792
30–34	1,487	1,939	1,878	1,541	1,874	1,002
35–39	1,159	1,196	1,165	941	1,298	592
40–44	544	596	499	278	372	150
45–49	43	55	40	22	25	12
50–54	0	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	8,632	13,386	12,631	6,440	5,549	2,927

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

CPV · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Cabo Verde

A baby born in Cabo Verde in 2021 could expect 73.2 years of life, 63.8 of them in full health (95% range 63.0–64.6). That leaves 9.4 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

66.1 in full health, 11.3 not: 77.4 years

Men

61.3 in full health, 7.5 not: 68.8 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 66.1 healthy years of 77.4. Men: 61.3 of 68.8. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 64.8.

CPV · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Cabo Verde

At the end of 2025, 94 people from Cabo Verde were living in another country. UNHCR records nobody displaced inside it, and nobody who had crossed a border into it.

Cabo Verde nationals abroad94

crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 2 people. The row is people from Cabo Verde living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 33 people from Cabo Verde asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

CPV · of every 100 people

How people live in Cabo Verde

Of every 100 people in Cabo Verde in 2025, 40 lived in a city, 33 in a town or suburb and 27 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

1.6 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 25.3 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

CPV · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Cabo Verde went in school

Of every 100 adults in Cabo Verde in 2020, 9 never went to school and 18 finished upper secondary or went further.

9 never went to school 34 some primary 19 finished primary 20 finished lower secondary 10 finished upper secondary 8 studied after school

Among women, 0.4 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 37.6 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 0.9 against 14.5.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2045; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2080.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

CPV · cities · 2025

Cities in Cabo Verde

Cabo Verde had 2 cities in 2025, home to 208,453 people.

João Teves135,022
Mindelo73,431

How to read this: the 2 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Cabo Verde are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.