cape verde counted 25 researchers in 2011, a researcher density of 51 per million inhabitants. the world average was 1,083 per million in 2013. all 25 researchers were working in the government sector in 2011 and one in three were women (36%). there was no research being conducted in either medical or agricultural sciences. of the eight engineers involved in research and development, one was a woman. three of the five researchers working in natural sciences were women, as were three of the six social scientists and two of the five researchers from the humanities.