Sao Tome and Principe

  • President:Carlos Vila Nova
  • Prime Minister:Américo Ramos
  • Capital city:São Tomé
  • Languages:Portuguese 98.4% (official), Forro 36.2%, Cabo Verdian 8.5%, French 6.8%, Angolar 6.6%, English 4.9%, Lunguie 1%, other (including sign language) 2.4% note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2012 est.)
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  • Population, persons:237,888 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:960
  • GDP per capita, US$:2,941 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:0.7 (2023)
  • GINI index:40.7 (2017)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:170

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    • April 2025
      Source: Fund for Peace
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 05 April, 2025
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      Data cited at: Fragile States Index - https://fragilestatesindex.org/ The FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by our CAST Software from electronically available sources. Measures of fragility, like Demographic Pressures,Refugees and IDPs and etc., have been scaled on 0 to 10 where 10 is highest fragility and 0 no fragility.