🇸🇳 Senegal
Republic of Senegal
Every statistic we track for Senegal — 137 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$5,565
68.5 yrs
4.79
0.48
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.8 | #33/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #45/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 19.8 | #199/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 13.5 | #71/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 19.7 | #61/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 100.6 | #118/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 13,028 | #59/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 55.2% | #140/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 82.9% | #167/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 46.1% | #14/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 60.1% | #136/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 118.2 | #89/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 50.8% | #27/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 50.4% | #30/31 | 2023 |
| Education Spending (QoG) | 6.2% | #11/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 4.4 | #142/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.8 | #149/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 291 | #144/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 43.8 | #100/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 19.8% | #123/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 58.1 | #77/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 66.6% | #4/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.9 | #93/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 1.6 | #140/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 20.8 | #35/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 78.3% | #2/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 77.7% | #120/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 51.7% | #50/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.1 | #99/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 32.7% | #45/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 10.4% | #42/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.7 | #66/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 48.4 | #96/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 5.9 | #80/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 83.8% | #15/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.8 | #107/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.9 | #71/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.2 | #123/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #61/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.5 | #100/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #77/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.9 | #117/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #169/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 90% | #17/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 49.5% | #29/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 14.6% | #42/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 81% | #84/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 73.4% | #90/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 58.5% | #29/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 28.6% | #22/39 | 2023 |
| Trade Union Membership | 23.3% | #17/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 69.2% | #7/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.4 | #36/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 64.2% | #110/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 62.2% | #85/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.7 | #11/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 55.8% | #28/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.