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Cabo Verde

527,326

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+2.45K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+16.3%from 453.32K
Life expectancy76.2 years2024
Fertility rate1.51births per woman · 2024
Urban population77.6%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Cabo Verde is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1424.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+7.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate12.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+7.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-1.28Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Cabo Verde look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 566.13K in 2050—7.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024524.88K
  2. 2050566.13K
  3. 2100416.94K
Median age in 205040.8years
Births in 20505.55Kduring the year
Deaths in 20504.55Kduring the year
Life expectancy80.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960210.02K
  2. 1970287.89K
  3. 1980323.3K
  4. 1990375.43K
  5. 2000453.32K
  6. 2010509.78K
  7. 2020514.68K
  8. 2025527.33K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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