- Capital: Praia
- POPULATION: 421 Thousands
- LANGUAGES:Portuguese, Crioulo
- Median age: 20
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 24.87
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 6.55
- Life expectancy: 70.73
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 76.6%
  male: 85.8%
  female: 69.2% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 5 July 1975 from Portugal
- GDP per capita: $6,200

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