The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- composition by sector: agriculture: 10% industry: 16.5% services: 62.8% (2003)
Investment (gross fixed):
16.5% of GDP (2003)
Population below poverty line:
30% (2000)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3% (2003)
Labor force:
NA (1980)
Unemployment rate:
21% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $252.9 million
expenditures: $269.9 million, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003)
Agriculture - products:
bananas, corn, beans, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, coffee, peanuts;
fish
Industries:
food and beverages, fish processing, shoes and garments, salt
mining, ship repair
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Electricity - production:
42.03 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
39.08 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
2,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Current account balance:
$-106.3 million (2003)
Exports:
$50.68 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - commodities:
fuel, shoes, garments, fish, hides
Exports - partners:
Portugal 31%, France 27.6%, UK 17.2%, US 17.2% (2003)
Imports:
$315.5 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, industrial products, transport equipment, fuels
Imports - partners:
Portugal 46.7%, Netherlands 9.1%, Belgium 3.8% (2003)
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$88.02 million (2003)
Debt - external:
$325 million (2002)
Economic aid - recipient:
$136 million (1999)
Currency:
Cape Verdean escudo (CVE)
Currency code:
CVE
Exchange rates:
Cape Verdean escudos (CVE) per US dollar - 97.703 (2003), 117.168
(2002), 123.228 (2001), 115.877 (2000), 102.7 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Cape Verde
Telephones - main lines in use:
71,700 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
53,300 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: effective system, being improved
domestic: interisland microwave radio relay system with both analog
and digital exchanges; work is in progress on a submarine
fiber-optic cable system which is scheduled for completion in 2003
international: country code - 238; 2 coaxial submarine cables; HF
radiotelephone to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station
- 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 15 (and 17 repeaters), shortwave 0 (2002)
Radios:
100,000 (2002 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (and 7 repeaters) (2002)
Televisions:
15,000 (2002 est.)
Internet country code:
.cv
Internet hosts:
118 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)
Internet users:
20,400 (2003)
Transportation Cape Verde
Highways: total: 1,100 km paved: 858 km unpaved: 242 km (1999 est.)
Ports and harbors:
Mindelo, Praia, Tarrafal
Merchant marine:
total: 4 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 5,395 GRT/6,614 DWT
foreign-owned: United Kingdom 1 (2004 est.)
by type: cargo 2, chemical tanker 1, passenger/cargo 1
Airports: 7 note: 3 airports are reported to be nonoperational (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 6 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 5 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.)
Military Cape Verde
Military branches:
Army, Coast Guard
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15–49: 98,394 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15–49: 55,477 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$12.3 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.5% (2003)
Transnational Issues Cape Verde
Disputes - international:
none
Illicit drugs:
used as a transshipment point for illicit drugs moving from Latin
America and Asia destined for Western Europe; the lack of a
well-developed financial system limits the country's utility as a
money-laundering center
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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