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African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
Sources: INE Cabo Verde (quarterly national accounts and consumer prices via the IMF; the continuous multi-purpose survey's unemployment rate and the hotel survey from its own indicator list), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt), World Bank (GDP before 2007, population; Worldwide Governance Indicators), Natural Earth, V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; prime ministers checked against the official lists and the election results. CreditsPrivacy

Francisco Carvalho (African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde) has been Prime Minister of Cape Verde since 19 Jun 2026. In Aug 2026 inflation was 0.8% on a year earlier, 0.1 percentage points higher than when Francisco Carvalho took office in June 2026. Under Ulisses Correia e Silva (2016 to 2026) inflation rose 2.0 percentage points. The latest governance scores, for 2025 and from before this tenure: liberal democracy index 63.1 of 100 (V-Dem Institute) and government effectiveness 62.8 of 100 (the World Bank). Since 1991 the office has changed hands 5 times; Francisco Carvalho has held it since June 2026.

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