Country comparison Senegal : United States

General information

	Senegal	United States
Region:	Western Africa	North America
Area:	196,710 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Wolof	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Dakar	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Senegal	United States
Population:	16,744,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	85.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 70 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 19.4 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	33.95 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.60 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.24 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Senegal	United States
Political stability:	60	67
Civil rights:	48	81
Health:	33	73
Climate:	46	62
Cost of Living:	56	16
Popularity:	35	72

Economy

	Senegal	United States
Currency:	West African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.1 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.55 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	44.93 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	44.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,430 US$	64,550 US$
Corruption index:	45 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	24,644 M US$	1.47 M US$	20,893,746 M US$	63.41 M US$
Gross national product:	23,971 M US$	1.43 M US$	21,266,806 M US$	64.55 M US$
Exported goods:	5,287 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	8,960 M US$	0.54 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	16,665 km	1.00 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	906 km	0.05 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.06 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	34	0.002	3,652	0.011
Airports:	20	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.50 bn kWh	208,851.80 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	4.17 bn kWh	248,866.31 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	9.86 m t	588.87 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Senegal	United States
International dialing:	+221	+1
Internet domain:	.sn	.us

	SEN total	SEN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	207,592	12	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	19,078,948	1139	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	237	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	6,613,852	395	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	177,363	11	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Senegal	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.30	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.07	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.12 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	91.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	9.1 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Senegal and United States

	Senegal	United States
Daytime temperatures:	35.3 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	24.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	67 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.7	7.2

Native languages

	Senegal	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Wolof:	43.1 %	n/a
Fula:	20.7 %	n/a
Serer:	12.5 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Bambara:	10.3 %	n/a
Diola:	5.0 %	n/a
Malinke:	3.8 %	n/a
French:	1.4 %	0.7 %
Soninke:	1.3 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Senegal	United States
Islam:	94.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	5.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Native religions:	1.0 %	n/a
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %