<item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> mestico, angolares (descendents of Angolan slaves), forros (descendents of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese)
<item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Seventh-Day Adventist
<item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 21,096 (1981); most of population engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing; labor shortages on plantations and of skilled workers; 56% of population of working age (1983)