Cabo Verde: Forcibly displaced people

Key figures

What the numbers say

From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2025, Cabo Verde had the 167th highest value of the 169 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Cabo Verde in the 2025 ranking

• Viet Nam — 164th of 169: 13
• Bahamas, The — 165th of 169: 10
• Turks and Caicos Islands — 166th of 169: 8
• Sierra Leone — 168th of 169: 0
• Singapore — 169th of 169: 0

What this measures

Forcibly displaced people are represented by the sum of (1) refugees (and people in a refugee-like situation) under the mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), (2) refugees under the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), (3) asylum-seekers, (4) other people in need of international protection, and (5) internally displaced people (IDPs). Situations in which people are reported in more than one of these categories are accounted for, to the extent possible.

Limitations: Aggregating data across diverse categories introduces challenges in maintaining comparability and consistency. Variations in data collection methods and definitions—such as differing criteria for refugee or IDP status—can complicate efforts to standardize figures across countries and regions. Additionally, dynamic changes in displacement, including secondary movements or status transitions (e.g., from asylum-seeker to refugee), may lead to double counting or data gaps. The diverse sources of data, ranging from administrative records to field surveys, further underscore the importance of contextualizing and cautiously interpreting the aggregate figures.

All 12 values

Forcibly displaced people in nearby economies

• Angola — 55,657 (2025)
• Benin — 54,921 (2025)
• Botswana — 868 (2025)
• Burkina Faso — 2.11 million (2025)
• Burundi — 119,066 (2025)
• Cameroon — 1.38 million (2025)
• Central African Republic — 490,761 (2025)
• Chad — 2.1 million (2025)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 4.88 million (2025)
• Congo, Rep. — 70,609 (2025)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 82,807 (2025)

More social protection & labor data for Cabo Verde

• Net migration — -1,284 (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 25.48% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, male (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 35.44% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, total (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 30.7% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) — 56.35% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) — 67.7% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) — 62.24% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Cabo Verde's forcibly displaced people?

0 in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How does Cabo Verde rank?

167th highest of 169 economies with data for 2025.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Refugee Population Statistics Database, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), uri: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SM.POP.FDIP, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Refugee Population Statistics Database, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), uri: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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