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Statistics from Portuguese administration in the 1960s stated that the racial composition of the inhabitants was 78 % of mestiços, 21 % of “ Africans ” ( i. e. blacks ) and 1 % of “ Europeans ” ( i. e. whites ).

Those figures have been overused in several sites, in spite of not being up to date.

Since the independence in 1975 the official statistics in Cape Verde have no longer made statistics based on racial groups.

Official sources only states “ the majority of the population is mulatto ” (“… maioritariamente mestiça …”) without stating any number.

Ethnically, Cape Verdeans see themselves as a single group, regardless of being mulatto, black or white.