Least Developed Country Category: Cabo Verde Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Cabo Verde Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

stat

Inclusion: 1977

Graduation: 2007

Reports and resolutions

stat

Inclusion

CDP reports: 1975, 1977
GA resolutions: A/RES/31/17, A/RES/32/99

Graduation

CDP reports: 1991, 1994, 1997,2000, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2012
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/1997/223, E/RES/2003/281, E/RES/2004/3, E/RES/2004/67, E/RES/2008/12
GA resolution: A/RES/59/210
Vulnerability profile: 2003
Monitoring reports: 2009, 2012
Country report: 2007

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

stat

Value:

$ 3,612

stat

Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

stat

Index:

89.6

stat

Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 12.3 stat Value: 71.0
Index: 98.6 Index: 67.8
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: Global Partnership for Education
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 9.4 stat Value: 91.0
Index: 86.2 Index: 88.0
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 42 stat Value: 1.2
Index: 96.9 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: Global Partnership for Education

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

stat

Index:

43.5

stat

Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 4.9 stat Value: 6.5
Index: 6.7 Index: 18.4
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 46.7 stat Value: 100.0
Index: 45.9 Index: 100.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 8.2 stat Value: 5.2
Index: 70.2 Index: 19.8
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 19.2 stat Value: 0.82
Index: 38.5 Index: 49.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

Follow Us