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** Size of Country ** The size of Cape in square miles is 1557, and in the United States it is 3,794,100. ** Population ** There is 327 people per square mile in Cape Verde, and in the USA it is 82 people per square miles. A huge difference don’t you think? ** Gross Domestic Product ** Gross Domestic Product is the value of all the things the country makes and services they do in the country's border in a certain time period. Cape Verde's is $3041 and $45,592 in the USA. The US got a treaty withParis, and Cape Verde didn't. Cape Verde has high unemployment while US has low unemployment.
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** Cape Verde's Flag and its Meaning **

Cape Verde's flag was adopted on the 25th of September, 1992. The stars represents the Cape Verdean nation and its unity. The red represents effort, the white is peace, and the blue is the sky and sea. ** Life Expectancy ** The life expectancy in Cape Verde for females is 74 and for males its 68. In the US for females is 81 and for males it is 77. ** Birth Rate ** In Cape Verde there are 21.67 births out of 1000 people. In the US it is 13.83 births out of 1000 people. ** Infant Mortality Rate ** At Cape Verde, 41 die out of 1000. At US, 6 die out of 1000. Big difference right? ** Language(s) ** Portuguese (official), Crioulo, US English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7%. ** The Monetary Unit ** Cape Verdean escudo (CVE). ** Government ** Cape Verde's government is a multi-party democratic system, while the US's is a democratic federal republic. Cape Verde's voting age is 18, and so is the US's. The leader of Cape Verde (currently) is Pedro Pires, Barack Obama is the US president. And while the US president is voted every four years, in Cape Verde it's five years. In the US, voting is done by an electoral college which is represented by the vote of people in each state, and in Cape Verde, it's voted by the national peoples' assembly (which had 72 elected members). ** Political Leader ** Cape Verde's leader currently is Pedro Pires. The current leader of the Us is Barack Obama. ** Religions ** Their main religions are Christianity and Protestant. ** Literacy Rate ** Cape Verde= Female is 79% Male is 89%. USA= Female is 99% Male is 99%. ** Economy ** Cape Verde is poor. A large amount of people are wage earners, but still don’t make enough to buy what they need. The main exports are fish, clothing, hides, bananas and salt. Most residents are government employees, small retail business owners, or fishermen. Unemployment in Cape Verde is extremely high. Industries suffer from underdeveloped resources. Lots of people work in construction or fishing or farming. ** History ** In the 15th century, Portuguese navigators came to Cape Verde. Previous to this, Wolof, Serere, and Lebou, (African groups), might have been living in some of the islands. In the next one to ten years, Portuguese people brought slaves to Cape Verde from Guinea Coast to develop sugar plantations. The previous history of the islands’ began with Guinea-Bissau. On 1955, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC for short), was created by Amilcar Cabral, Luís Cabral, Aristides Pereira, Pedro Pires, and others. After about 20 years of guerrilla warfare against Portugal, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde got their independence. Cape Verde got their independence in 1975, and PAIGC became PAICV, (African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde). In 1973 in Conakry, Guinea, The movement’s leader (Amilcar Cabral) was murdered. Then Pereira was voted president, and Pires became prime minister. They had a single-party system until 1990. In Cape Verde’s first multiparty elections in 1991, António Mascarenhas Monteiro was elected president and Carlos Veiga became prime minister. Pires protected 51 percent of the poll to overthrow Veiga by just three thousand votes. 20 percent of Cape Verde's registered voters were critical to the election; 65 percent of the diaspora community voted for Pires. In 2007, Cape Verde increased admission to the World Trade Organization, and it is creating efforts to establish trading ties with the United States, Portugal, and the European Union. In 2009, Cape Verde acknowledged a national emergency in the outbreak of dengue fever.

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