Cape Verde’s coastline is 12 times as long as the Gambia’s

Cape Verde: 965 km (2026 edition) · Gambia: 80 km (2026 edition)

Cape Verde’s highest peak towers 2,766 m above the Gambia’s

Cape Verde: 2,829 m (2026 edition) · Gambia: 63 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 76% of the Gambia, versus 25% of Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 24.8% (2024) · Gambia: 76.1% (2024)

The Gambia has 5.4 times as many people as Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 527,326 (2025) · Gambia: 2.82 million (2025)

The Gambia is 2.1 times as densely populated as Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 131 per km² (2025) · Gambia: 279 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Cape Verde is 9.7 years older than in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 27.9 years (2023) · Gambia: 18.2 years (2023)

Women in the Gambia have 2.4 more children on average than in Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 1.51 children per woman (2024) · Gambia: 3.91 children per woman (2024)

7.2% of people in Cape Verde are 65 or older, versus 3.2% in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 7.2% (2025) · Gambia: 3.2% (2025)

Cape Verde: 0 per 1,000 (2025) · Gambia: 1.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Cape Verde: no data · Gambia: 0 (2026)

Cape Verde and the Gambia are practically level

Cape Verde: 1 (2026) · Gambia: 1 (2026)

Cape Verde’s economy is 18% larger than the Gambia’s

Cape Verde: $3.06 billion (2025) · Gambia: $2.59 billion (2025)

Cape Verde produces 3.3 times as much per person as the Gambia

Cape Verde: Int$12,165 (2025) · Gambia: Int$3,706 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Cape Verde than in the Gambia (Gini 3.6 points higher)

Cape Verde: 42.4 (2015) · Gambia: 38.8 (2020)

Cape Verde: no data · Gambia: 22% (2020)

Unemployment is 12% in Cape Verde, versus 6.5% in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 11.9% (2025) · Gambia: 6.5% (2025)

Cape Verde and the Gambia are practically level

Cape Verde: 0.7% (2025) · Gambia: 0.6% (2025)

Cape Verde: 18.4% (2020) · Gambia: no data

Cape Verde’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× the Gambia’s

Cape Verde: 48% (2025) · Gambia: 25% (2025)

Cape Verde spends 11 times as much on health per person as the Gambia

Cape Verde: $290 (2023) · Gambia: $26 (2023)

A baby in the Gambia is 3.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 10.6 per 1,000 (2024) · Gambia: 32.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Cape Verde has 8.1 times as many doctors per person as the Gambia

Cape Verde: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Gambia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Cape Verde has 2 times as many hospital beds per person as the Gambia

Cape Verde: 2.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Gambia: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Cape Verde is 42% higher than in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 19.3 per 100k (2023) · Gambia: 13.6 per 100k (2023)

17% of adults in Cape Verde are obese, versus 11% in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 16.5% (2024) · Gambia: 11.2% (2024)

11% of adults in the Gambia smoke, versus 10% in Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 10.4% (2024) · Gambia: 11.1% (2024)

Cape Verde: no data · Gambia: 4.31 (2025)

Adults in Cape Verde drink 8.4 times as much alcohol as in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 4.1 litres (2023) · Gambia: 0.5 litres (2023)

Cape Verde has 2.3 times as much meat per person as the Gambia

Cape Verde: 43.8 kg (2023) · Gambia: 19.1 kg (2023)

Cape Verde has 391 kcal more food per person per day than the Gambia

Cape Verde: 2,794 kcal (2023) · Gambia: 2,402 kcal (2023)

Adults in Cape Verde went to school 1.4 years longer than in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 6.1 years (2023) · Gambia: 4.7 years (2023)

Cape Verde welcomed 7 times as many tourists per resident as the Gambia (2019)

Cape Verde: 1.51 (2022) · Gambia: 0.22 (2022)

The Gambia has 1 more World Heritage site than Cape Verde (2 against 1)

Cape Verde: 1 (2026) · Gambia: 2 (2026)

Cape Verde has won 1 Olympic medal, the Gambia none

Cape Verde: 1 (2026 edition) · Gambia: 0 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Cape Verde are online, versus 49% in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 75% (2024) · Gambia: 49% (2024)

Home internet in Cape Verde is 2.7 times as fast as in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 64 Mbps (2026) · Gambia: 23 Mbps (2026)

98% of people in Cape Verde have electricity, versus 69% in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 98.4% (2024) · Gambia: 69% (2024)

78% of people in Cape Verde live in cities, versus 65% in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 78% (2025) · Gambia: 65% (2025)

The Gambia has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Cape Verde 112

Cape Verde: 112 (2024) · Gambia: 126 (2024)

Airlines from Cape Verde fly 3.5 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Gambia

Cape Verde: 0.14 (2023) · Gambia: 0.04 (2019)

Forest covers 21% of the Gambia, but only 13% of Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 12.5% (2024) · Gambia: 21.3% (2024)

The average person in Cape Verde emits 3.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 1.1 t (2024) · Gambia: 0.3 t (2024)

31% of Cape Verde’s electricity is renewable, versus 0% in the Gambia

Cape Verde: 30.8% (2024) · Gambia: 0% (2024)

The air in the Gambia carries 2.1 times as much fine dust as in Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 17 µg/m³ (2024) · Gambia: 35.7 µg/m³ (2024)

Cape Verde: 7 per 100k (2020) · Gambia: no data

Roads in the Gambia are 24% deadlier than in Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 24.2 per 100k (2023) · Gambia: 29.9 per 100k (2023)

The Gambia is on average 5.1 °C warmer than Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 23°C (2016–2025 avg) · Gambia: 28.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Gambia gets 4.5 times as much rain as Cape Verde

Cape Verde: 171 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Gambia: 774 mm (2016–2025 avg)