World population/Cape Verde
Africa
Population of Cape Verde
529,641
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#175
world rank
0.01%
of world population
+0.42%
yearly change
+2,235
people this year
6,330
births a year
2,757
deaths a year
How the figure for Cape Verde is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Cape Verde at 529,641 on 1 July 2026, and projects 531,876 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Cape Verde at number 175 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.01 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 6,330 births and 2,757 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.