there are significant cape verde populations in portugal (150,000), angola (45,000), são tomé and príncipe (25,000), senegal (25,000), the netherlands (20,000, of which 15,000 are concentrated in rotterdam), spain (65,500), united kingdom (35,500), france (25,000), italy (10,000) luxembourg (7,000) and scandinavia (7,000). there is a cape verdean community in argentina numbering 8,000. a large number of cape verdeans and people of cape verdean descent who emigrated before 1975 are not included in these statistics, because cape verdeans had portuguese passports before 1975.