Brunei vs Cape Verde
Cape Verde has 13% more people than Brunei: 527,326 vs 466,330, a gap of 60,996. Brunei is growing faster (+0.78% vs +0.47% a year), adding about 3,623 people a year against +2,455. Using continuous exponential growth from the stated base year, if these rates held, Brunei would overtake Cape Verde in about 39 years (from the 2025 population bases, around 2064) — a projection, not a forecast. Cape Verde is 1.5× as densely populated (129.6 vs 87.1 people per km²). GDP per capita is 5.6× higher in Brunei ($32,235 vs $5,796).
Country/territory population bases: World Bank 2025 (Brunei) and 2025 (Cape Verde); growth years 2025 / 2025. Annual source values, not live counts; years may differ. Growth is national, not local.
Brunei vs Cape Verde — side by side
 Brunei |  Cape Verde | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 466,3302025 | 527,3262025 |
| Growth rate / yr | +0.78%2025 | +0.47%2025 |
| Births per 1,000 | 13.32024 | 12.22024 |
| Deaths per 1,000 | 5.32024 | 5.12024 |
| Children per woman | 1.732024 | 1.512024 |
| Life expectancy | 75.5 yrs2024 | 76.2 yrs2024 |
| Aged 0–14 | 20.6%2025 | 24.7%2025 |
| Aged 65+ | 7.2%2025 | 7.2%2025 |
| Density | 87.1 /km²2023 | 129.6 /km²2023 |
| Area | 5,770 km²2023 | 4,030 km²2023 |
| Urban population | 75.0%2025 | 77.6%2025 |
| Net migration / yr | 02025 | -1,2842025 |
| GDP per capita | $32,2352025 | $5,7962025 |
| Country population rank (available records) | #173 | #172 |
| Base / world population (World Bank 2025) | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Highlighted cell = the higher value (not "better"). Small print under each value is its own data year. Source: World Bank; country/territory population bases may have different years. These are not live counts.
Population since 1960
World Bank population history (not the separate UN WPP timeline). Brunei: 5.3× from 1960 to 2025; Cape Verde: 2.5× from 1960 to 2025. Left: absolute population. Right: each series indexed to its own first available year = 100; baseline years may differ.
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