Country comparison: France / Senegal

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for France and Senegal. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	France	Senegal
Region:	Western Europe	Western Africa
Area:	549,087 km²	196,710 km²
National language:	French	Wolof
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Paris	Dakar

Population

Details for France and Senegal

	France	Senegal
Population:	67,750,000	16,877,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	85.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 70 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 19.4 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	33.03 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	5.58 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.71 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	France	Senegal
Political stability:	74	63
Civil rights:	85	46
Health:	92	32
Climate:	41	52
Cost of Living:	30	56
Popularity:	71	35

Economy

Details for France and Senegal

	France	Senegal
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	West African franc
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	3.7 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	2.55 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	42.72 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	44.80 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	1,570 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	57 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	27,625 M US$	1.64 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	26,463 M US$	1.57 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	5,287 M US$	0.31 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	8,960 M US$	0.53 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Senegal

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	16,665 km	0.99 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	906 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	35	0.0021
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	7	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for France and Senegal

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	3.50 bn kWh	207,208.51 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	4.17 bn kWh	246,908.17 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	10.62 m t	629.27 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Senegal

	France	Senegal
International dialing:	+33	+221
Internet domain:	.fr	.sn

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	SEN total	SEN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	261,440	15
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	19,859,981	1177
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	237	0
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	7,189,483	426
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	208,314	12

Healthcare system

Details for France and Senegal

	France	Senegal
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	0.30
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.07
Diabetes:	4.8 %	2.4 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.15 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	1.13 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	6.9 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: France and Senegal

	France	Senegal
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	35.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	22.0 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	24.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.9	4.3
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.7

Native languages

	France	Senegal
French:	93.6 %	1.4 %
Wolof:	n/a	43.1 %
Fula:	n/a	20.7 %
Serer:	n/a	12.5 %
Bambara:	n/a	10.3 %
Diola:	n/a	5.0 %
Malinke:	n/a	3.8 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Soninke:	n/a	1.3 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	1.9 %

Religions

	France	Senegal
Islam:	8.0 %	94.0 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	5.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Native religions:	n/a	1.0 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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