Rankings · Cape Verde

Prime ministers

• Real GDP during each prime minister's tenureINE Cabo Verde quarterly national accounts via the IMF (QNEA, B1GQ, chain-linked volumes at 2015 prices, not seasonally adjusted), summed over the trailing four quarters, from 2007; the World Bank's yearly GDP at constant escudos before, rescaled to 2007
• Real GDP per person during each prime minister's tenureINE Cabo Verde quarterly GDP via the IMF (chain-linked volumes at 2015 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's yearly GDP before 2007), over the population (World Bank, the UN's estimates) interpolated to the quarter
• Unemployment rate during each prime minister's tenureINE Cabo Verde, Inquérito Multi-Objetivo Contínuo (continuous multi-purpose survey), persons aged 15 and over, yearly from 2011 (fieldwork late in the year), from INE's own indicator list; 2021, the census year, left out (INE's list gives the census's figure)
• Inflation (CPI) during each prime minister's tenureINE Cabo Verde consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, INE's base years spliced by the IMF), change on the same month a year earlier (INE's headline is the 12-month average change)
• Consumer prices (CPI) during each prime minister's tenureINE Cabo Verde consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, INE's base years spliced into one index by the IMF, 2010 = 100)
• Hotel guests during each prime minister's tenureINE Cabo Verde hotel survey (Estatísticas do Turismo: guests checked in at hotels and other establishments), yearly from 2000, from INE's own indicator list
• Government debt during each prime minister's tenureIMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (GGXWDG_NGDP), from 1997, the years of actual figures only (the latest an estimate)
• Population during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank (SP.POP.TOTL) from the UN's World Population Prospects, mid-year; the 2021 census counted 491,233 residents
• Government effectiveness during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Regulatory quality during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Rule of law during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Control of corruption during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Corruption perceptions index during each prime minister's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
• Voice and accountability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Electoral democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Liberal democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Freedom of expression during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Political stability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval