Senegal
Senegal in numbers
39 measures of Senegal from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.56% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$533M in 2025
- Military spending per person$30 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel19,000 people in 2020
- National power0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.37% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports79 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports3 million TIV in 1976
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Senegal with…
- Senegal vs Nigeria
- Senegal vs Ethiopia
- Senegal vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Senegal vs Tanzania
- Senegal vs South Africa
- Senegal vs Kenya
- Senegal vs Sudan
- Senegal vs Uganda
- Senegal vs Angola
- Senegal vs Mozambique
- Senegal vs Ghana
- Senegal vs Madagascar
- Senegal vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Senegal vs Cameroon
- Senegal vs Niger
- Senegal vs Mali
- Senegal vs Burkina Faso
- Senegal vs Malawi
- Senegal vs Zambia
- Senegal vs Chad
- Senegal vs Somalia
- Senegal vs Zimbabwe
- Senegal vs Guinea
- Senegal vs Benin
- Senegal vs Rwanda
- Senegal vs Burundi
- Senegal vs South Sudan
- Senegal vs Mauritania
- Senegal vs Gambia
- Senegal vs Guinea-Bissau
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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