Senegal

General information

Capital: Dakar

Currency unit: CFA franc

Official language: French

Area: 196,710 km²

Population in million: 15.9

GDP per capita (current US dollars): 1,033

GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 2,712

Demography

Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 57.2

Annual growth rate of the population: 2.8 %

Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 32.7 %

Life expectancy at birth: 67.2 ans

Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 56 %

Production

Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 16.37

Agriculture value added of GDP: 15.4

Industry value added of GDP: 20.5

Services value added of GDP: 53.8

Trade

Total exports in billions of US dollars: 3.11

Total imports in billions of US dollars: 6.65

Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Diphosphorus pentaoxide (8.94 %)
Hydraulic cements (8.22 %)
Bars and rods of iron or steel (1.15 %)
Beauty or make-up preparations (1.05 %)
Other bars and rods of iron or steel (0.95 %)

Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Frozen fish (6.77 %)
Ground-nut oil (3.67 %)
Molluscs (3.59 %)
Soups and broths (2.88 %)
Fresh or chilled fish (2.42 %)

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Global Sustainable Competitiveness Indicator
- National attractiveness
  - Infrastructures
    - Transport and logistics
      - Nearest port
      - Connectivity index
      - Logistic Performance Index (LPI)
      - Adjusted connectivity index
      - Non desertic roads density
      - Roads density
      - Paved roads
      - Quality of roads infrastructure
      - General quality of infrastructures
      - General quality of railroads infrastructures
      - General quality of airport infrastructures
      - General quality of portuary infrastructures
    - Electricity and telecommunications
      - Access to mobile phone
      - Access to fixed telephone
      - Access to broadband internet
      - Access to electricity
      - Quality of electricity supply
      - Reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index (0-8)
  - Market
    - Size and dynamics
      - Size of the national market
      - Size of the regional market
      - Population in the capital city
      - GDP per capita (current US $)
      - Average growth rate of the national economy (5 years)
      - Average growth rate of the regional economy (5 years)
      - Gini Index
    - Potential demand
      - Percentage of the population over the UN poverty line
      - Percentage of the population living above the national poverty line
      - Middle class size (% of the population)
      - Flux of FDI per capita
      - Stock of FDI per capita
      - Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
  - Human and financial capital
    - Human capital
      - Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)
      - Life expectancy at birth
      - Human Development Index (HDI)
      - Pupil-teacher ratio
      - Youth literacy rate (% of people ages 15-24)
      - Gross enrollment ratio (secondary school)
      - Tertiary school enrollment rate
      - Public spending on education, total (% of government expenditure)
      - Mean years of schooling of adults
      - Population with at least some secondary education
      - Quality of the education system
    - Financial capital
      - Soundness of banks
      - Avaibility of financial services
      - Affordability of financial services
      - Ease of acess to loans
      - Account at a formal financial institution (% age 15+)
      - Getting credit
      - Credit registry coverage (% of adults)
      - Credit bureau coverage (% of adults)
      - Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP)
      - Market capitalization in % of GDP
  - Political and economic governance
    - Economic governance
      - Ease to do business
      - Control of Corruption
      - Regulatory Quality
      - Government Effectiveness
      - Safety and rule of law
    - Political governance
      - Political Stability and Absence of violence
      - Voice and Accountability
      - Rule of Law
      - Polity2 (Polity IV)
      - Political rights and civil liberties
- Price competitiveness
  - Macroeconomic competitiveness
    - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) Index (weighting based on exportations)
    - Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index (weighting based on exportations)
    - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) Index (weighting based on importations)
    - Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index (weighting based on importations)
    - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) Index (weighting based on importations and exportations)
    - Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index (weighting based on importations and exportations)
    - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) Index (weighting based on non-oil exports)
    - Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index (weighting based on non-oil export)
    - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) Index (weighting based on non-oil imports)
    - Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index (weighting based on non-oil imports)
    - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) Index (weighting based on total non-oil imports and exports)
    - Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index (weighting based on total non-oil imports and exports)
    - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) Index (weighting based on non-oil imports and total exports)
    - Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index (weighting based on non-oil imports and total exports)
    - PPP conversion factor ratio
    - Effective PPP conversion factor ratio (net of productivity)
  - Products competitiveness
    - Weighted average index of the Real Internal Exchange Rate (RIER) of the 5 majors exported primary products (except oil and ores)
      - RIER index of the 5 majors exported primary products (except oil and ores)
    - Weighted average index of the Real Internal Exchange Rate (RIER) of the 5 majors exported manufactured products
      - RIER index of the 5 majors exported manufactured products
    - Weighted average index of the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) of the 5 majors exported primary products (except oil and ores)
      - REER indices of the 5 majors exported primary products (except oil and ores)
    - Weighted average index of the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) of the 5 majors exported manufactured products
      - REER index of the 5 majors exported manufactured products
    - Weighted average index of the price of the 5 majors exported primary products (except oil and ores)
      - Price index of the 5 majors exported primary products (except oil and ores)
    - Weighted average index of price of the 5 majors exported manufactured products
      - Price index of the 5 majors exported manufactured products
  - Productions factors competitiveness
    - Formation and distribution of added value
      - Minimum wage (US Dollars)
      - Cashier minimum wage
      - Wage of non qualified worker in services' sector
      - Wage of non qualified worker in services' sector in % of GDP per capita
      - Wage of non qualified worker in services' sector in % of GDP in PPP per capita
      - Wage of non qualified worker in services' sector in % of GDP per capita
      - Wage of non qualified worker in services' sector in % of GDP per capita in PPP net of Petrol
      - Lending rate
      - Real interest rate (%)
      - Total tax rates (% of profit)
    - Intermediate consumption and competitiveness of turnover
      - Price of electricity (US cents per kWh)
      - Pump price for diesel fuel (US$ per liter)
      - Pump price for gasoline (US$ per liter)
      - Cost to export: Border compliance
      - Cost to export: Documentary compliance
      - Cost to export (US$ per container)
      - Cost to import: Border compliance
      - Cost to import: Documentary compliance
      - Cost to import (US$ per container)
      - Average tariff rate (applied to all products)
      - Weighted average tariff applied to Manufactured goods, ores and metals
      - Weighted average tariff applied to manufactured products
      - Weighted average tariff applied to (MFN) manufactured goods, ores and metals
      - Weighted average tariff applied to (MFN) manufactured products
      - Fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions cost (% of GNI per capita)
      - ICT basket price (in % of GNI per capita)
      - ICT basket price (in US Dollar)
- Durability and resistance to vulnerabilities
  - Economical vulnerability
    - Exposure
      - Population size
      - exports concentration
      - share of agriculture, forestry and fishery in GDP
    - Shocks
      - Victims of natural disasters
      - Instability of agricultural production
      - Instability of exports of good and services
  - Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI)
    - Risks related to progresssive shocks
      - Share of floods areas
      - Increasing aridity
    - Risks related to the intensification of recurrent shocks
      - Temperature shocks
      - Rainfall shocks
      - Storms
  - Internal Violence Index (IVI)
    - Internal armed conflicts
      - Deaths due to internal armed conflict
      - Internally displaced people
    - Criminality-homicides
    - Terrorism
      - Terrorist incidents
      - Deaths due to terrorism
      - injuries due to terrorism
    - Political violence
- Revealed competitivenes and economic performances
  - - Weighted market shares index of the 5 major exported primary products (except oil and ores)
      - Market shares index of the 5 major exported primary products (except oil and ores)
    - Weighted market shares index of the 5 major exported manufactured products
      - Market shares index of the 5 major exported manufactured products
    - Weighted average market share index (all primary exports)
    - Weighted average market share index (all manufactured exports)
    - Overall market share index (all primary exports)
    - Overall market share index (all manufactured exports)

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GDP per capita (current US $)

Senegal: 4

2014

Breakdown by component

2014	Senegal
GDP per capita (current US $)	4