Editing Demographics of Cape Verde (section)

==Languages==
:[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] (official), [[Cape Verdean Creole|Kriolu]]<ref name="CIATONGA">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cabo-verde/|title=Africa :: CAPE VERDE|date=14 April 2022|publisher=CIA The World Factbook}}</ref>
According to results from 2016, 72.8% of the population aged 12 or above could speak a language besides Kriolu, and the vast majority of them spoke [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], the official language of the country and the language from [[Portuguese Cape Verde|colonial time]]. Ability to speak non-Kriolu languages also varied greatly by age, with younger generation being substantially more likely to speak a non-creole language.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://ine.cv/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/apresentacao_cdl_imc.pdf |title=Seminário sobre as Estatísticas da Cultura, Desporto e Lazer |trans-title=Seminar about Culture, Sport and Leisure Statistics |date=2016 |publisher=[[Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde)|Instituto Nacional de Estatística]] |language=Portuguese |access-date=2025-04-07}}</ref> 
{| class="wikitable"
|+Percentage of population aged 12 or above by ability to speak various languages
!
!Any non-creole languages
![[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]
![[English language|English]]
![[French language|French]]
![[Spanish language|Spanish]]
![[Italian language|Italian]]
|-
|'''Total 12+'''
|'''72.8'''
|'''72.2'''
|'''16.5'''
|'''13.5'''
|'''3.0'''
|'''0.9'''
|-
|12-14
|84.8
|84.7
|8.5
|7.0
|0.0
|0.1
|-
|15-24
|88.6
|88.1
|25.0
|19.5
|1.2
|0.3
|-
|25-44
|79.8
|78.8
|20.5
|15.8
|4.3
|1.6
|-
|45-64
|54.6
|54.4
|7.2
|7.8
|4.6
|0.6
|-
|65 +
|26.4
|26.3
|2.6
|4.5
|1.8
|1.1
|}