Cape Verdean passport
Lucky Nomads Passport Index
LN Passport score
34.88
Global rank
#108
Pure mobility
21.59
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
20.53
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
18.3
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, not just visit.
Tax friendliness
64.8
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 (52)
- Albania
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Ascension
- 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
- Tristan da Cunha
- 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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Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.