- ISO 3166
CV- Main language + region
kea-CV- Currency
- CVE · Cape Verdean Escudo
- Region
- not grouped
Cape Verde
Cape Verde has 611K people, and 456.6K of them are online. Kabuverdianu is the most widely spoken language at 91%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Portuguese is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to kea-CV.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
456.6K
0%world median 81%100%
75% of 611K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$5,796
Higher than 38% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
2
Kabuverdianu 91% · Portuguese 76%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
85%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Cape Verde
share of 611K people
- Kabuverdianu91%556K
- Portugueseofficial76%464.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (kea-CV).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 di Abril di 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234$56
1,234.56 in CVE · Cape Verdean Escudo