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Government debt during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how the government debt changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1 Ulisses Correia e Silva 22 Apr 2016 – 19 Jun 2026 +1.9 pp 2015 → 2024+0.2 pp/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in pp; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. % of GDP · IMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (GGXWDG_NGDP), from 1997, the years of actual figures only (the latest an estimate) · Cape Verde data · as of Aug 2026.

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. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy