Cape Verdeans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 500,000–850,000 Cape Verdean ancestry and citizenship worldwide | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Cape Verde 491,875 (2010) | |
| Portugal | 312,084 |
| Argentina | 35,000 |
| United States | 30,000 |
| Senegal | 25,000 (1995) |
| Netherlands | 21,218 (2011) |
| France | 21,000 (1995) |
| Spain | 10,000 |
| Italy | 10,000 (1999) |
| Angola | 9,400 |
| Mozambique | 6,843 |
| Cuba | 6,000 |
| Mexico | 5,000 |
| Brazil | 4,831 (2024) |
| Canada | 4,000 (1999) |
| Germany | 3,500 (1995) |
| Luxembourg | 2,562 (2021) |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1,237 |
| Uruguay | 1,000 |
| Venezuela | 1,000 |
| Languages | |
| Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism Protestantism, Irreligion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| • West Africans mainly: Wolof people, Serer people, Mandinka people, Biafada people, Papel people • Europeans mainly Portuguese people | |
Cape Verdeans, also called Cabo Verdeans (Portuguese: cabo-verdiano), are a people native to Cape Verde, an island nation in West Africa consisting of an archipelago in the central Atlantic Ocean. Cape Verde is a multi-ethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many different ethnic backgrounds. Cabo Verdeans do not consider their nationality as an ethnicity but as a citizenship with various ethnicities.