Does Cape Verde have mandatory military service?
Selective / de jure only
Selective / de jure only
Cape Verde is one of 5 countries classified “Selective / de jure only” for military conscription — 3% of the 192 with data. (Also searched as the draft, national service.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Conscription
- Last checked
- 17 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- The Gambia
- No conscription
- Guinea-Bissau
- Active conscription
- Senegal
- Active conscription
- Mauritania
- No conscription
- Guinea
- No conscription
- Sierra Leone
- No conscription
Other laws in Cape Verde
- Death Penalty
- Fully abolished
- Gun Laws
- Restrictive
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