Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Tunisia instead of Cabo Verde, you would:

Health

see 80.4% more spent on your healthcare

Cabo Verde spends $617 per person on healthcare as of 2023 (international dollars, adjusted for prices). Tunisia spends $1,113 as of 2023.

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have 80.1% more doctors per person

Cabo Verde has 7.3 doctors per 10,000 people as of 2023. Tunisia has 13.2 as of 2021.

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be 87.7% less likely to die by suicide

Cabo Verde has a suicide rate of 14.9 per 100,000 people as of 2021. In Tunisia, it is 1.8 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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be 55.9% more likely to be obese

In Cabo Verde, 16.7% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Tunisia, that number is 26.1% of people as of 2024.

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Economy

be 33.1% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Cabo Verde, 24.8% live below the poverty line as of 2023. In Tunisia, however, that number is 16.6% as of 2021.

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be 26.5% more likely to be unemployed

In Cabo Verde, 11.9% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Tunisia, that number is 15.1% as of 2025.

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make 19.7% less money

Cabo Verde has a GDP per capita of $5,796 as of 2025, while in Tunisia, the GDP per capita is $4,657 as of 2025.

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Expenditures

spend 54.7% more on education

Cabo Verde spends 4.3% of its total GDP on education as of 2023. Tunisia spends 6.7% of total GDP on education as of 2023.

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spend 36.6% more on healthcare

Cabo Verde spends 5.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2023. In Tunisia, that number is 8.0% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 19.0% more coastline

Cabo Verde has a total of 965 km of coastline. In Tunisia, that number is 1,148 km.

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Safety

be 32.9% less likely to be murdered

Cabo Verde has a homicide rate of 7.0 per 100,000 people as of 2020. In Tunisia, that number is 4.7 per 100,000 as of 2020.

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Infrastructure

find 80.1% more home broadband

Cabo Verde has 8.3 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2024. Tunisia has 15.0 as of 2024.

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live with 64.4% more strain on fresh water

Cabo Verde withdraws 60% of its available fresh water each year as of 2022. Tunisia withdraws 98% as of 2022.

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Environment

emit 2.0 times more CO2

Cabo Verde emits 1.3 tonnes of CO2 per person each year as of 2024. Tunisia emits 2.6 tonnes as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2020–2025), World Health Organization (2024), The World Factbook. How we calculate this

Compare further: Cabo Verde vs. Tunisia

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Tunisia: At a glance

Tunisia is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 155,360 sq km. Rivalry between French and Italian interests in Tunisia culminated in a French invasion in 1881 and the creation of a protectorate. Agitation for independence in the decades following World War I was finally successful in getting the French to recognize Tunisia as an independent state in 1956. The country's first president, Habib BOURGUIBA, established a strict one-party state. He dominated the country for 31 years, repressing Islamic fundamentalism and establishing rights for women unmatched by any other Arab nation. In November 1987, BOURGUIBA was removed from office and replaced by Zine el Abidine BEN ALI in a bloodless coup. Street protests that began in Tunis in December 2010 over high unemployment, corruption, widespread poverty, and high food prices escalated in January 2011, culminating in rioting that led to hundreds of deaths. On 14 January 2011, the same day BEN ALI dismissed the government, he fled the country, and by late January 2011, a "national unity government" was formed. Elections for the new Constituent Assembly were held in late October 2011, and in December, it elected human rights activist Moncef MARZOUKI as interim president. The Assembly began drafting a new constitution in February 2012 and, after several iterations and a months-long political crisis that stalled the transition, ratified the document in January 2014. Presidential and parliamentary elections for a permanent government could be held by the end of 2014.
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