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Senegal

 

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 Senegal
All information: Senegal
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:196,710 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:15,854,000 326,688,000
Official language:Wolof English

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Government

Government form:Presidential republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1960 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Dakar Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:80.6 33.2
Life expectancy males:65.5 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:69.6 years 81.1 years
Average age:18.1 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:34.52 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:5.72 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-1.30 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

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Political stability:60 75
Civil rights:46 96
Health:14 68
Security:81 63
Climate:46 64
Cost of Living:35 36
Popularity:21 92


Economy

Currency:West African Franc US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:6.6 % 3.7 %
Inflation rate:1.76 % 1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:44.80 % 36.60 %
Average income:1,259 € 56,427 €
Corruption index:45 (bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:21,554 Mio €1.36 M € 18,351,356 M €56.17 M €
Gross national product:19,999 Mio €1.26 M € 18,433,513 M €56.43 M €
Exported goods:4,723 M €0.30 M € 2,234,305 M €6.84 M €
Imported goods:8,004 M €0.50 M € 2,794,991 M €8.56 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:16,665 km1.05 km 6,586,610 km20.16 km
Railways:906 km0.06 km 293,564 km0.90 km
Waterways:1,000 km0.06 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:320.002 3,6730.011
Airports:200.001 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:3.50 bn kWh220,570.24 kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.94 m kWh
Energy production:4.17 bn kWh262,829.91 kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.53 m kWh
Energy export:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,676.68 kWh
Energy imports:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 72.72 bn kWh222,598.05 kWh
CO2 emissions:8.86 m t558.57 t 5.25 bn t16,083.50 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+221 +1
Internet domain:.sn .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:302,24319 109,961,000337
Mobile phones:16,559,9421,045 422,000,0001,292
Internet server:2370 505,000,0001,546
Internet users:7,293,006460 285,087,483873



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:0.30 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:0.07 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:2.4 % 10.8 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:1.2 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:87.0 % 77.0 %
Smokers:8.2 % 21.8 %

Climate

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Daytime temperatures:35.7 °C 18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:22.1 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:24.5 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:64 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:19 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:56.4 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:7.7 7.2


Native languages

English:n/a 82.1 %
Wolof:48.1 % n/a
Ful:21.7 % n/a
Serer:12.5 % n/a
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Diola:5.0 % n/a
Malinke:3.8 % n/a
Soninke:1.3 % n/a
French:n/a 0.7 %
German:n/a 0.7 %
Chinese:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
other:7.6 % 3.0 %


Religions

Islam:94.0 % 0.6 %
Christianity:5.0 % 78.5 %
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
Native religions:1.0 % n/a
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
other:0.0 % 18.4 %