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Senegal

Senegal in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Dakar · Region: Sub-Saharan Africa · Income group: Lower middle income

Senegal recorded GDP per capita: 1,955 (2025), ranking 177 of 212 worldwide; Population: 18.93 million (2025), ranking 68 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 68.9 (2024), ranking 161 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 1.46% (2025), ranking 141 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+3587%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-77%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.

Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 6 of 19 comparable series are higher and 13 are lower.

Its population of 18.93 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.

All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.

Indicators

IndicatorLatestYearChange
GDP37,006,536,238.372025+3587.0%
GDP per capita1,954.712025+550.6%
GDP growth6.68%2025+123.2%
Population18,931,9662025+466.7%
Population growth2.3%2025-18.5%
Urban population55.77%2025+146.6%
Inflation1.46%2025+2401.2%
Life expectancy68.922024+73.8%
Infant mortality28.92024-77.3%
CO2 per capita0.772024+154.1%
GDP (PPP)103,429,462,833.812025+785.4%
GDP per capita (PPP)5,463.222025+261.1%
Labor participation52.02%2025+1.7%
Unemployment2.74%2025-4.4%
Electricity access82.9%2024+218.8%
Internet users60.12%2024
Forest area41.28%2023-14.6%
Education spending6.16%2023+149.0%
Health spending4.32%2023+21.8%
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.