Lucky Nomads Passport Index
Cape Verdean passport
The Cape Verdean passport scores 40.62 out of 100 and ranks 100 of 200 on the Lucky Nomads Passport Index, our livability-weighted measure of where a passport lets you live, work and settle.
LN Passport score
40.62 / 100
Global rank
#100of 2001
Pure mobility
21.47
Mobility rank #141, shown for reference at 0% weight
+41
Lives better than visa-free counts suggest
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
18.25
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with livability counted squared and longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
38.19
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, with diminishing returns as the free-movement list grows.
Tax friendliness
62.1
How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.
Optionality and freedom
75.65
Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.
Free-movement destinations: 11. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 54.
Where this passport can go
Live and work freely (11)
- Benin
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Liberia
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
Visa-free (30)
- Angola
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Burkina Faso
- Cook Islands
- Dominica
- Ecuador
- Haiti
- Hong Kong
- Macao
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Niger
- Niue
- Palestinian Territories
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Russia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Timor-Leste
- Tunisia
- Zambia
Visa on arrival (11)
- Bangladesh
- Burundi
- Comoros
- Maldives
- Nicaragua
- Palau
- Saint Lucia
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
Electronic travel authorization (2)
- Kenya
- Sri Lanka
eVisa (50)
- Albania
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Georgia
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe
Visa required (128)
- Afghanistan
- Alderney
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Anguilla
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chile
- China
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guernsey
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Saba
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint-Martin (French part)
- San Marino
- Sark
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- US Virgin Islands
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Wallis and Futuna
- Yemen
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