Cabo Verde

Official 2025 H2 labour data show 215,317 employed people, 4.9% unemployment and 23.3% labour underutilisation. This measures labour access, not family time. No reliable current national actual-hours, commuting-time or unpaid-care measure was found in this run.

Government maintains social-housing and youth-housing application systems and in 2026 launched subsidised-interest and youth-credit-guarantee measures. These are access interventions, but their credit design confirms that housing remains money-gated for many households.

Cabo Verde has farming and fishing capacity but is a dry small-island state with limited arable land and high exposure to imported food and global prices. Current production/import quantities need a dedicated statistical pull before a high-confidence score.

Water management is a core national system because natural freshwater is scarce. ANAS regulates supply, sanitation, wastewater treatment/reuse and resource protection. Santiago treatment infrastructure shows real capacity but also sharp implementation gaps: Praia ETAR has 8,120 m3/day design capacity while ANAS reports a temporary operating level around 50 m3/day.

Electricity coverage reached about 98% by early 2026. Renewable projects are active, but the system remains dependent on imported fossil fuels. A pumped-storage project is planned to add renewable integration and reduce fossil use, with operation scheduled for 2029; it must not be counted as current achieved capacity.

Cabo Verde was certified malaria-free by WHO in 2024. More than 95% of births are institutional across all islands; vaccination coverage was reported above 92%. A 2023 UHC figure of 69% shows substantial coverage but not universal effective access, and the ministry itself records financial/geographic barriers for some women's specialist care.

Education is a national public system, but this run did not retrieve sufficiently current official enrolment, completion, learning and household-cost measures for a defensible category judgment.

As an archipelago, everyday mobility depends on roads plus inter-island air/sea links. Road transport also consumes roughly 30% of imported fossil fuel, while government is pursuing electric mobility.

High health coverage and housing programmes support families, while World Bank analysis says childcare access and flexible work remain important to women's equal economic participation. Remittances were 11.7% of GDP in 2025, showing strong diaspora-family economic ties but also external dependence.

Cabo Verde's small, dry islands create hard physical land limits. Protected areas cover 18.19% of terrestrial territory, preserving public ecological space, while agriculture and housing compete for scarce usable land.

The archipelago has major beaches, volcanic landscapes and 46 protected areas. Costa Fragata shows the abundance/pressure tension clearly: it is a major turtle-nesting and recreation area but heavy tourism and vehicles threaten fragile dunes.

Cabo Verde has a large protected-area system and active dune/coastal restoration, but drought, water scarcity, sea-level rise and climate hazards are structural. The 2025 Early Warnings for All launch is an implementation initiative, not proof that universal multi-hazard coverage has already been achieved.

No reliable current national crime, violence, court-delay, incarceration and access-to-justice dataset was retrieved in this run. Climate early-warning and maritime-security cooperation are relevant to safety but cannot substitute for justice evidence.

ANAS has an explicit integrated-waste mandate covering prevention, recycling and reuse, and wastewater reuse is practiced. This establishes institutional intent and partial implementation, but no reliable current national recycling/material-return rate was found.