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Topic 12 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Cabo Verde: Mobility & Trade
Which countries move goods across their borders most smoothly?
Cabo Verde is placed 163rd of 177 countries on mobility & trade in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Liner Shipping Connectivity Index 11.68 (2025); Container Import Dwell Time 6 (2024).
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163rd
of 177 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 4 key statistics
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Cabo Verde on mobility & trade — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 4
Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 3.0 IGO
11.68
LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100)
Higher is better
Ranked 163rd of 177 by UNCTAD
Cabo Verde: 11.68. Across the 168 countries in this edition, values run from 4.13 (Turks and Caicos Islands) to 1,313 (China); the world median is 60.84.
- World median
- 60.84
- Best in Western Africa
- 139.37 Ghana
6
Median days a full import container waits in port
Lower is better
Cabo Verde: 6. Across the 156 countries in this edition, values run from 1 (Gibraltar) to 21.6 (Haiti); the world median is 4.4.
- World median
- 4.4
- Best in Western Africa
- 3.2 Liberia
No reading
LPI score (1–5)
Higher is better
World Bank Group publishes no 2023 figure for Cabo Verde, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 139 countries in this edition, values run from 1.9 (Afghanistan) to 4.3 (Singapore); the world median is 2.9.
- World median
- 2.9
- Best in Western Africa
- 2.9 Benin
Key 4 of 4
ICT Goods Exports
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 3.0 IGO
No reading
ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports)
Higher is better
UNCTAD publishes no 2024 figure for Cabo Verde, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 120 countries in this edition, values run from 0 (Gambia) to 61.45 (Hong Kong); the world median is 0.975.
- World median
- 0.975
- Best in Western Africa
- 0.26 Côte d’Ivoire
02Over time
Which way Cabo Verde is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100) · higher is better
Cabo VerdeWorld median
Cabo Verde fell from 19.14 in 2006 to 17.28 in 2026; the world median went from 52.25 to 56.21.
Every year’s figures
Year Cabo Verde World median 2026 17.284 56.21 2025 11.680 60.84 2024 11.680 55.22 2023 11.663 54.78 2022 11.495 51.49 2021 11.621 52.64 2020 11.639 47.86 2019 19.182 51.05 2018 20.042 52.03 2017 19.624 49.87 2016 13.215 48.09 2015 14.006 49.13 2014 12.355 48.08 2013 12.006 51.32 2012 18.727 47.44 2011 19.179 50.26 2010 18.118 50.51 2009 19.494 53.04 2008 23.051 51.68 2007 17.230 55.78 2006 19.137 52.25 ICT Goods Exports
ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) · higher is better
Cabo VerdeWorld median
Cabo Verde fell from 1.69 in 2000 to 0.27 in 2023; the world median went from 0.43 to 0.69.
Every year’s figures
Year Cabo Verde World median 2024 — 0.975000 2023 0.27 0.690000 2022 0.67 0.565000 2021 0.67 0.550000 2020 0.07 0.680000 2019 0.43 0.625000 2018 0.00 0.480000 2017 — 0.630000 2016 — 0.865000 2015 — 0.790000 2014 — 0.760000 2013 — 0.645000 2012 0.17 0.630000 2011 0.18 0.535000 2010 0.52 0.560000 2009 0.21 0.780000 2008 — 0.595000 2007 0.31 0.660000 2006 1.35 0.445000 2005 0.55 0.570000 2004 — 0.535000 2003 — 0.530000 2002 — 0.510000 2001 — 0.490000 2000 1.69 0.430000
03In context
Cabo Verde beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 177 countries on mobility & trade, never a place within the region.
Cabo Verde and Western Africa
Cabo Verde has no land border, so the table compares it with its sub-region. Standing among all 177; the key columns are the publishers’ own values.
| Country | Standing | Liner Shipping Connectivity IndexLSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100) | Container Import Dwell TimeMedian days a full import container waits in port | Logistics Performance IndexLPI score (1–5) | ICT Goods ExportsICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Côte d’Ivoire | 98th | 135.75 | 6.2 | — | 0.26 |
 Sierra Leone | =117th | 29.93 | 4.9 | — | — |
 Ghana | 119th | 139.37 | 8.2 | 2.5 | — |
 Benin | 123rd | 70.86 | 7.6 | 2.9 | 0.18 |
 Liberia | 131st | 19.91 | 3.2 | 2.4 | — |
 Senegal | =132nd | 76.73 | 8.1 | — | 0.24 |
 Togo | 135th | 123.88 | 9.8 | 2.5 | 0.12 |
 Nigeria | 144th | 114.93 | 12.4 | 2.6 | 0 |
 Guinea | 146th | 32.74 | 6.6 | 2.5 | — |
 Guinea-Bissau | =155th | 16.66 | 7.5 | 2.6 | — |
 Gambia | 157th | 15.46 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 0 |
 Mauritania | 162nd | 36.44 | 6.5 | 2.3 | 0.01 |
| Cabo Verde | 163rd | 11.68 | 6 | — | — |
 Burkina Faso | 176th | — | — | 2.3 | 0.01 |
 Mali | not placed | — | — | 2.6 | — |
 Niger | not placed | — | — | — | 0.01 |
“—”: no published reading in that edition. What a standing is
Across Western Africa
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 177.
Placed either side on mobility & trade
The countries immediately above and below Cabo Verde in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Cabo Verde is ahead of the world, and behind
24 more statistics filed under mobility & trade, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median2
Statistics on which Cabo Verde does better than the middle country measured.
Freedom of Foreign MovementV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 · world median 1.22.4711.2▲ Improved since 2015
Cabo Verde: 2.471 · world median 1.2 · Original latent estimate (≈ −3.6 to +2.9); higher = freer movement. V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -3.642 to 2.727; higher is better.
Position 3rd of 176 · derived.
Average Time to Clear Exports Through CustomsWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 4.4561.3494.456No earlier reading
Cabo Verde: 1.349 · world median 4.456 · Average time to clear exports through customs (days). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1 to 27.46; lower is better.
Position 163rd of 174 · derived, 1st = worst.
Behind the world median4
Statistics on which Cabo Verde does worse than the middle country measured.
Cost of Sending RemittancesWorld Bank Group · 2023 · world median 3.2253.4383.225▼ Worsened since 2016
Cabo Verde: 3.438 · world median 3.225 · Average cost of sending $200 home (% of the amount). World Bank Group, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from -49.69 to 19.63; lower is better.
Position 42nd of 93 · derived, 1st = worst.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness IndexOECD · 2025 · world median 0.2060.2520.206▼ Worsened since 2015
Cabo Verde: 0.252 · world median 0.206 · Digital STRI (0 = open, 1 = closed). OECD, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.021 to 0.649; lower is better.
Position 50th of 125 · derived, 1st = worst.
Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 25.427.2325.42▼ Worsened since 2014
Cabo Verde: 7.23 · world median 25.42 · Digitally-deliverable services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.377 to 87.15; higher is better.
Position 142nd of 170 · derived.
ICT Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 7.4741.3257.474▼ Worsened since 2014
Cabo Verde: 1.325 · world median 7.474 · ICT services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 56.25; higher is better.
Position 102nd of 118 · derived.
No better end18
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Cereal Import Dependency RatioFAO · 2022 · world median 42.810042.8Moved since 2012
Cabo Verde: 100 · world median 42.8 · Share of the cereal supply that is imported (%). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from -1,894 to 100.
Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All ProductsWorld Bank Group · 2022 · world median 3.6612.563.66No real change since 2012
Cabo Verde: 12.56 · world median 3.66 · Applied tariff rate, trade-weighted mean (%). World Bank Group, 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 29.52.
Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 9.60230.179.602Moved since 2015
Cabo Verde: 30.17 · world median 9.602 · Services exports (% of GDP). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.085 to 166.21.
Export Concentration IndexUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 0.3060.410.306Moved since 2015
Cabo Verde: 0.41 · world median 0.306 · Export concentration index (0–1, normalised Herfindahl–Hirschman). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.059 to 0.933.
Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 41.7253.3541.72Moved since 2015
Cabo Verde: 53.35 · world median 41.72 · Imports of goods and services (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1.279 to 196.89.
Position 50th of 138 · derived, counted from the highest value.
Trade (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 79.6895.3379.68No real change since 2015
Cabo Verde: 95.33 · world median 79.68 · Exports plus imports (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.382 to 396.65.
Position 50th of 138 · derived, counted from the highest value.
Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 36.3441.9836.34No real change since 2015
Cabo Verde: 41.98 · world median 36.34 · Exports of goods and services (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1.103 to 199.76.
Position 54th of 138 · derived, counted from the highest value.
Commodity Export DependenceUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 67.1774.3967.17Moved since 2014
Cabo Verde: 74.39 · world median 67.17 · Commodity exports (% of merchandise exports, three-year average). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 4.605 to 99.77.
International Migrants as a Share of PopulationUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 6.0893.1466.089Moved since 2015
Cabo Verde: 3.146 · world median 6.089 · International migrants (% of population). UN DESA Population Division, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.02 to 100.
EmigrantsUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 444,451146,396444,451No real change since 2015
Cabo Verde: 146,396 · world median 444,451 · Migrants from the country living abroad, mid-year (people). UN DESA Population Division, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 313 to 18,533,845.
Terms of Trade IndexUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 103.2393.69103.23Moved since 2015
Cabo Verde: 93.69 · world median 103.23 · Terms of trade index (2015 = 100). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 38.2 to 1,448.
Net Migration RateUN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median -0.133-2.347-0.133Moved since 2013
Cabo Verde: -2.347 · world median -0.133 · Net migrants per 1,000 population. UN DESA Population Division, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from -61.68 to 39.62.
Merchant Fleet by Country of OwnershipUNCTAD · 2026 · world median 275.736.679275.73Moved since 2016
Cabo Verde: 6.679 · world median 275.73 · Merchant fleet owned (thousand dead-weight tons). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2026 edition, data for 2026.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 397,071.
International MigrantsUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 223,32316,515223,323No real change since 2015
Cabo Verde: 16,515 · world median 223,323 · International migrants living in the country, mid-year (people). UN DESA Population Division, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 246 to 52,375,047.
Container Port TrafficUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 1,827,78889,3821,827,788Moved since 2014
Cabo Verde: 89,382 · world median 1,827,788 · Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 17,263 to 299,703,800.
Position 97th of 103 · derived, counted from the highest value.
Asylum-Seekers by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 1,83601,836No real change since 2015
Cabo Verde: 0 · world median 1,836 · Asylum-seekers awaiting a decision, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 3,718,945.
Creative Goods ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 1.2350.021.235Moved since 2014
Cabo Verde: 0.02 · world median 1.235 · Creative goods exports (% of merchandise exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 37.23.
Refugee Population by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 12,269012,269No real change since 2015
Cabo Verde: 0 · world median 12,269 · Refugees under UNHCR's mandate hosted, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 2,655,191.
No current reading for Cabo Verde
Creative Services Exports (last 2013), FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, Foreign Value Added Share of Gross Exports, ICT Goods Exports (last 2023), Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary (last 2018), Logistics Performance Index and Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary (last 2018). Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
“Position · derived” is this site’s ordering of the published values, 1st = best unless the row says otherwise; the publisher ranks no country on it. Rank, position and standing
05Country Index 2026
Mobility & Trade among Cabo Verde’s 16 topics
Mobility & Trade is Cabo Verde’s 16th best-placed topic of 16. Strongest first, each marker at its share of that topic’s field.
- Peace & Security6th of 1774/4 keys
- Gender & Equalityjoint 34th of 1833/4 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties37th of 1984/4 keys
- Governance & Institutions48th of 1944/4 keys
- Risk & Resilience54th of 1933/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeing80th of 2004/4 keys
- Energy80th of 1652/3 keys
- Development & Human Capital109th of 1963/3 keys
- Digital & Technologyjoint 123rd of 1984/4 keys
- Environment & Sustainability125th of 1862/4 keys
- Education & Knowledge142nd of 1983/4 keys
- Economy & Innovation129th of 1762/4 keys
- Poverty & Inequalityjoint 128th of 1593/3 keys
- Work & Labour161st of 1824/4 keys
- Food & Agriculture165th of 1843/4 keys
- Mobility & Trade163rd of 1772/4 keys
06The top of the list
Who leads on mobility & trade
The three countries placed highest of 177, and the leaders Cabo Verde can most readily be measured against.
1
SingaporeSouth-eastern Asia
1st of 177 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Khairul Nizam . · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
2
MacauEastern Asia
2nd of 177 · 2 of 4 keys
Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3
Hong KongEastern Asia
3rd of 177 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Africa
South Africa39th4/4 keysHighest in Western Africa
Côte d’Ivoire98th3/4 keysThis page
Cabo Verde163rd2/4 keys
Positions out of 177 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Analysis
Charts and analysis about Cabo Verde and mobility & trade
On mobility & trade
China Leads Global High-Technology Exports
The world’s ten largest high-technology exporters as a treemap, with the rest of the world beside them. Each country’s figure is its own most recent year, between 2022 and 2024.
On mobility & trade
The World’s Safest Airlines for 2025
The eleven safest airlines of 2025, each beside the country it is based in, and the nine things the grading looks at. Three airlines share third place, and the publisher gives an order but no score.
On mobility & trade
The world’s most powerful passports for 2025
Sixteen passports, their mobility scores, and the visa-free, visa-on-arrival and visa-required split behind each. Fourteen share third place while differing in how they reach it.
08Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
Passport strength and visa-free travel are not measured with a key, because the data behind passport rankings is not licensed for reuse here. Trade as a share of the economy, the cost of sending money home, migrant numbers, refugees and student mobility are published as context: they describe how much crosses a border, not how well a country handles it. Services sold over the internet are measured under Digital & Technology.
How the Mobility & Trade standing is decided
A standing is this site’s ordering, named with its edition — never a publisher’s rank. 4 key statistics vote, one vote each; every country’s published value becomes a place within that key’s own field, the places are averaged, and the average is never published. A country needs 2 of the 4 keys to be placed.
The mobility & trade method, step by stepHow every standing on this site is built
The key statistics and their licences
- Liner Shipping Connectivity Index — UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), CC BY 3.0 IGO
- Container Import Dwell Time — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Logistics Performance Index — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- ICT Goods Exports — UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), CC BY 3.0 IGO
The other 24 statistics on this page come from 7 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Cabo Verde’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Cabo Verde (banner) — Ximonic , Simo Räsänen derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Singapore — Khairul Nizam ., CC BY 2.0
- Macau — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Hong Kong — Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Cabo Verde: Mobility & Trade — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/cabo-verde/mobility