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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Dakar	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Senegal	United States
Population:	16,296,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	82.8	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 70 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 18.1 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	34.52 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.72 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.24 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Senegal	United States
Political stability:	64	73
Civil rights:	49	83
Health:	32	74
Climate:	47	64
Cost of Living:	39	23
Popularity:	30	86

Economy

	Senegal	United States
Currency:	West African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.1 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.76 %	1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	44.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,460 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	45 (bad)	69 (moderate)

	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	23,578 M US$	1.45 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	23,752 M US$	1.46 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	5,287 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	8,960 M US$	0.55 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	SEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	16,665 km	1.02 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	906 km	0.06 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.06 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	32	0.002	3,673	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	214,587.74 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	4.17 bn kWh	255,701.21 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.90 m t	668.98 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	13	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	17,880,600	1097	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	237	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	7,496,327	460	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Senegal	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.07	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.14 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	1.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	89.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	9.1 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Senegal and United States

	Senegal	United States
Daytime temperatures:	35.5 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	24.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.7	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 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
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 %