63
score (maximum 100), 2025
Low trust, 58 of 100 The sources disagree: their figures run from 63 to 92.
All countriesAll of Cabo Verde's figures
Cabo Verde among 197 countries
81 have a higher figure and 111 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2025 to 2025.
Cabo Verde 63
Lowest: Eritrea, 3Highest: Uruguay, 97
What this number counts
- Counts
- Democracy score from each index, each measuring its own concept (maximum 100 on every index; lowest possible 0 on V-Dem, -4 on Freedom House, 10 on the BTI)
- Where
- Cabo Verde
- When
- Latest year available: V-Dem 2025, Freedom House 2025 (one year's rating)
Where the number comes from (2 sources)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
632025 | V-Dem asks "To what extent is the ideal of liberal democracy achieved?": civil liberties, rule of law, independent courts and checks on the executive, combined with the level of electoral democracy.V-Dem publishes 0-1; multiplied by 100 (its own maximum), nothing else changed, so this index runs from 0 to 100. The report prints two decimals, so this row moves in whole points. V-Dem's uncertainty for this score is a standard deviation of 0.059 on its 0-1 scale. Raw file: V-Dem Institute, Democracy Report 2026, Table A2, PDF page 48, row "Cape Verde" (rank 40), read into scripts/democracy-by-country.manual.json. | 5 of 5 checks
| 71% | |
Freedom House, Freedom in the World aggregate scoreFreedom House · Expert ratingRetrieved 2026-11-02 | 922025 | Total score in Freedom in the World 2026, covering 1 January to 31 December 2025: 0 to 4 points on each of 10 political rights and 15 civil liberties questions.Freedom House publishes this with a maximum of 100, so no rescaling. The floor is -4, not 0: a discretionary question can subtract 1 to 4 points, and Freedom House says the political rights score can fall to between -1 and -4. It rates rights and freedoms people have in practice, whoever affects them, rather than governments as such. Raw file: scores.html (https://freedomhouse.org/country/scores), table row "Cabo Verde". | 2 of 5 checks
| 29% |
- V-Dem71%
- Freedom House29%
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality33.1 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement2.4 / 30
How close the sources are to each other
- Independence12 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
- Blind spot: every counted source is the same kind
- Freedom House, 2017: From the 2018 edition (covering 2017) Freedom House removed Additional Discretionary Political Rights Question A, which it says affected a very small number of countries. source
Why the numbers differ
- What counts as democracy. V-Dem's index weighs electoral democracy together with limits on executive power, such as courts and civil liberties. Freedom House adds up 25 questions on the political rights and civil liberties people have in practice, including where non-state actors restrict them. The BTI averages five criteria that include whether the state functions at all (stateness), and it caps some scores for countries it classes as autocracies. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Who codes V-Dem: it lists more than 4,200 country experts, aims for at least five on each question, and combines their answers with a statistical model that also reports uncertainty. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Who codes Freedom House: its 2026 edition used 134 analysts and 28 advisers, with Freedom House staff responsible for final decisions after regional review meetings. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Who codes the BTI: one country expert writes a report and scores it, a second reviews it blind and scores independently, then regional coordinators and the BTI Board calibrate and adopt the scores. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Who funds V-Dem: the University of Gothenburg hosts it, and its listed funders include the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council, the European Commission, the World Bank and the foreign ministries of Sweden and Denmark. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Who funds Freedom House: its audited accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 show U.S. Government grants as 91% of total revenue, and report stop-work orders on many of those grants during that year. The Freedom in the World report names private donors and says Freedom House is solely responsible for its content. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Who funds the BTI: it is the index of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a foundation in Gütersloh, Germany, with experts from universities and think tanks. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Time. V-Dem and Freedom House score the calendar year 2025. BTI 2026 covers two years to 31 January 2025 and comes out every two years, so a recent event can show in one and not another. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Coverage. The BTI covers 137 countries and leaves out those that were OECD members by 1989, so Norway or the United States have no BTI score. V-Dem also scores units such as Hong Kong, Somaliland and Zanzibar, and Freedom House scores 13 territories. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Common mistakes
- Treating equal numbers as equal findings: rescaling gives the indices one maximum, not one definition, so 60 on one index and 60 on another are not the same assessment. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Reading small gaps as real differences: V-Dem publishes a standard deviation around each score, and neighbouring countries in its ranking often overlap. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Reading the BTI floor as 0: its lowest possible score here is 10, because its scale starts at 1. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Reading the Freedom House floor as 0: a question that subtracts points can take a total as low as -4. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Reading a Freedom House score as a rating of a government: Freedom House says it assesses the rights and freedoms individuals have, rather than governments as such. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
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From the table How democratic is each country, according to the main indices? Updated 2026-11-02.
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Cite as: RealStats, “Democracy score in Cabo Verde”, updated 2026-11-02, with the original sources listed on the page.