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Key facts

  • Currency: West African CFA franc
  • Capital city: Dakar
  • Region: Western Africa
  • Continent: Africa
  • Land area: 192,530 km²
  • Population: 17,316,449
  • Political Leader: Macky Sall (President)

Latest news

Senegal's New President Was Unknown, but 'This Family is Not New to Ruling'

Read: The New York Times

2024-03-28

Provisional results show big win for Senegal's President-elect Faye

Read: Daily Sabah

2024-03-28

Senegal results show large win for opponent Faye in Presidential poll

Read: France 24

2024-03-28

Senegal opposition candidate Faye won 54 percent in presidential vote

Read: Al Jazeera

2024-03-27

Senegal's Faye gets 54.28% of presidential vote, provisional results show

Read: France 24

2024-03-27

'We are finally free': Senegal hails new anti-establishment president

Read: The Guardian

2024-03-27

Senegal's president-elect to lead country days after being released from prison

Read: CBC

2024-03-27

Metrics

Business

Expense 23.21 % of GDP
GDP 27,684,300,000.00 current US$
Inflation 9.70 annual %
Self-employed 64.36 % of total employment
Tax revenue 18.66 % of GDP
Unemployment 3.01 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 62.55 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 95,110.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 0.61 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 10,680.20 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 4.17 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 8.65 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 83.62 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 1.77 % of total
Net energy imports 52.69 % of energy use
Fertility rate 4.39 births per woman
Forest area 80,281 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 53.91 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 2,962.71 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 14.00 years
Methane emissions 11,762.80 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 6,023.25 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 8,800,406
Male Population 8,516,043
Renewable energy consumption 38.64 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 194,449.00 km²
Rural population 8,816,497
Urban land area 1,566.40 km²
Urban population 8,499,952
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 4.82 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 32.57 per 1,000 people
Death rate 5.92 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 76.78 current US$
Health expenditure 5.15 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.10 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 0.30 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 67 years
Suicide mortality rate 6.00 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 67.98 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 8,400
Individuals using the Internet 58.05 % of population
Net migration -19,999
Press freedom 3.03


Politics

Armed forces personnel 19,000
Democracy score 6.15
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 1.57 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 44.24 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

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