Senegal

Current head of state

Bassirou Diomaye Faye President of Senegal In office 2024–present · 2.4y PartyAfrican Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity Born 1980 · took office at 44 The White House (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley); cropped by Brühl · Public domain

Bassirou Diomaye Faye

President of Senegal

Since 2024 2.4 years in office

Governance indicator

-0.05

−2.50+2.5

World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators, composite of six dimensions · 2024

Chamber

Member of the National Assembly of Senegal

Seats

—

Speaker

—

Active alliances

29

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor President of Senegal In office 1960–1980 · 20.3y PartyFrench Section of the Workers' International Born 1906 · took office at 53 Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F011981-0003,_Frankfurt-Main,_Staatspräsident_von_Senegal.jpg: Steiner, Egon derivative work: RoyFocker 12 (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Abdou Diouf Abdou Diouf President of Senegal In office 1980–2000 · 19.2y PartySocialist Party of Senegal Born 1935 · took office at 45 Chris Peus · CC BY-SA 2.0

Abdoulaye Wade Abdoulaye Wade President of Senegal In office 2000–2012 · 12y PartySenegalese Democratic Party Born 1926 · took office at 73 Prime Minister's Office · GODL-India

Macky Sall Macky Sall President of Senegal In office 2012–2024 · 12y PartySenegalese Democratic Party Born 1961 · took office at 50 Office of the White House (Amanda Lucidon) · Public domain

Bassirou Diomaye Faye Bassirou Diomaye Faye President of Senegal In office 2024–present · 2.4y PartyAfrican Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity Born 1980 · took office at 44 The White House (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley); cropped by Brühl · Public domain

Term Began with a realized coup In office

The scale spans every dated record held for this country, so it may begin before the first leader on file — a gap at the left means coups are recorded for years where no office-holder is. Coup markers link to the Cline Center source.

1. 2024– Bassirou Diomaye Faye President of Senegal In office 2024–present · 2.4y PartyAfrican Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity Born 1980 · took office at 44 The White House (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley); cropped by Brühl · Public domain Bassirou Diomaye Faye In office 2.4y
2. 2012–2024 Macky Sall President of Senegal In office 2012–2024 · 12y PartySenegalese Democratic Party Born 1961 · took office at 50 Office of the White House (Amanda Lucidon) · Public domain Macky Sall 12y
3. 2000–2012 Abdoulaye Wade President of Senegal In office 2000–2012 · 12y PartySenegalese Democratic Party Born 1926 · took office at 73 Prime Minister's Office · GODL-India Abdoulaye Wade 12y
4. 1980–2000 Abdou Diouf President of Senegal In office 1980–2000 · 19.2y PartySocialist Party of Senegal Born 1935 · took office at 45 Chris Peus · CC BY-SA 2.0 Abdou Diouf 19.2y
5. 1960–1980 Léopold Sédar Senghor President of Senegal In office 1960–1980 · 20.3y PartyFrench Section of the Workers' International Born 1906 · took office at 53 Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F011981-0003,_Frankfurt-Main,_Staatspräsident_von_Senegal.jpg: Steiner, Egon derivative work: RoyFocker 12 (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0 Léopold Sédar Senghor 20.3y

• 2024
  Senegal National Assembly November 2024 Election Pastef Party13078.8% Coalition Takku Wallu Sénégal169.7% Coalition Jamm ak Njarin74.2% Coalition Samm Sa Kaddu31.8%

  Seats

  165

  Turnout

  49.5%

  Women

  41.2%

  Parties won

  13

• 2022
  Senegal National Assembly July 2022 Election Benno Bokk Yaakaar8249.7% Yewwi Askan Wi5633.9% Wallu Sénégal2414.5% Bokk Gis Gis/Liguèy10.6%

  Seats

  165

  Turnout

  46.6%

  Women

  44.2%

  Parties won

  6

• 2017
  Senegal National Assembly July 2017 Election Benno Bokk Yaakaar12575.8% Winning Coalition - Wattu Senegaal"1911.5% Mankoo Taxawu Senegaal Coalition74.2% Unity and Rally Party (PUR)31.8%

  Seats

  165

  Turnout

  53.7%

  Women

  41.8%

  Parties won

  14

• 2012
  Senegal National Assembly July 2012 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 2007
  Senegal National Assembly August 2007 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 2007
  Senegal National Assembly June 2007 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 2001
  Senegal National Assembly April 2001 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1999
  Senegal National Assembly January 1999 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1998
  Senegal National Assembly May 1998 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1993
  Senegal National Assembly May 1993 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1988
  Senegal National Assembly February 1988 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1983
  Senegal National Assembly February 1983 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1978
  Senegal National Assembly February 1978 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1973
  Senegal National Assembly January 1973 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

• 1968
  Senegal National Assembly February 1968 Election

  Seats

  —

  Turnout

  not recorded

  Women

  —

  Parties won

  —

Source: ipu_parline.

Separatist and self-determination movements recorded for this country. Coverage is partial — this is what the source describes, not a complete census of secessionism.

• Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance in Senegal separatist movement in Casamance, Senegal
  from description

Source: Wikidata. “Classified separatist” means the source explicitly tags the movement as such; the rest are identified from their description. The authoritative dataset for secessionist conflict is UCDP/PRIO, which is not yet ingested.

Fertility rate

3.8 2024

Life expectancy at birth

68.9 2024

Population growth

2.3 2024

Total population

18.5M 2024

Urban population percent

55.2 2024

Adult literacy rate

50.4 2023

Government expenditure on education percent of GDP

6.2 2023

Primary net enrollment ratio

75.4 2017

Secondary net enrollment ratio

37.7 2017

Ethnic groups

Religion

Languages

• French
• Wolof
• Pulaar
• Jola
• Mandinka
• Serer
• Soninke

Composition: CIA World Factbook, 2019 estimate. Shares are reproduced as published and are not renormalised, so a country may total slightly under or over 100%.

Regional & continental

• AfCFTA
• African Union
• AFRISTAT 1993
• ECOWAS
• OHADA
• La Francophonie 1970
• OIC 1969

Global bodies & treaties

• African Development Bank
• African Groundnut Council
• Group on Earth Observations
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
• International Civil Defence Organisation
• International Development Association
• International Finance Corporation
• International Telecommunication Union
• Interpol
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
• Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• UNESCO
• United Nations
• United Nations–African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur
• Universal Postal Union
• World Customs Organization
• World Health Organization
• World Meteorological Organization
• World Trade Organization

• ICJ 2009 decided

  Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal)

  obligation to prosecute or extradite

• ICJ 1995 no judgment in corpus

  Maritime Delimitation between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal (Guinea-Bissau v. Senegal)

  maritime boundary

• ICJ 1989 decided

  Arbitral Award of 31 July 1989 (Guinea-Bissau v. Senegal)

  validity of an arbitral award

Register

Every party the observatory holds for this country, historical and current — the register is not filtered to parties currently holding seats.

• Action pour le développement national
• African Independence Party – Renewal
• African Party for the Independence of the Masses
• African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity Pan-Africanism; left-wing populism Ousmane Sonko
• African Regroupment Party – Renewal
• African Regroupment Party – Senegal
• Alliance démocratique PÉNCÓO
• Alliance for Progress and Justice/Jëf-Jël
• Alliance for the Republic Macky Sall
• Alliance of the Forces of Progress social democracy Moustapha Niasse
• Alliance pour la conscience citoyenne
• And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism
• And-Jëf/Revolutionary Movement for New Democracy
• Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi
• Authentic Socialist Party
• bloc des masses sénégalaises
• Bokk Gis Gis
• Bolshevik Nuclei communism
• Casamancian Autonomous Movement
• Citizen Movement for National Reform
• Committee for the Initiative for Permanent Revolutionary Action communism
• Communist Workers League
• Convention of Democrats and Patriots
• Convergence for Renewal and Citizenship
• Deggo Souxali Transport ak Commerce
• Democratic Bloc of Diambour
• Democratic League/Movement for the Labour Party
• Democratic Rally
• Democratic Regroupment of Kolda
• Forces Citoyennes
• Front des alliances patriotiques
• Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubël social democracy Cheikh Bamba Dièye
• Front national sénégalais
• Front pour la démocratie et le progrès
• Gaïndé Centrist Bloc
• Independent Party of Sine Saloum
• Independent Party of the Community of the Cap-Vert Peninsula
• Independent Socialist Republican Party
• Kiiraay – Les Patriotes républicains Pan-Africanism; Republicanism; sovereigntism Bassirou Diomaye Faye
• Kiraay ak Natangue
• Labour Party of Sine Saloum
• Leeral coalition
• Liberate the People
• Mouvement des citoyens pour une démocratie de développement
• Mouvement libéral pour le peuple sénégalais
• Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance nationalism
• Movement of Leftwing Radicals
• Movement of Young Marxist–Leninists Marxism–Leninism
• MPR- en Marche Pour la Renaissance
• National Democratic Rally
• National Movement of Servants of the Masses
• National Patriotic Union/Tekki
• Parti Africain Écologiste du Sénégal green politics
• Parti de la réforme
• Parti de la renaissance et de la citoyenneté
• Parti de l'espoir et du progrès
• Parti des libéraux et démocrates / And Suqali
• Parti des travailleurs
• Parti nouvelle solidarité
• Parti populaire sénégalais
• Parti pour la renaissance africaine
• Parti pour l'avenir et la solidarité
• Parti pour le rassemblement démocratique
• Parti républicain sénégalais
• Parti sénégalais du progrès
• Party for Progress and Citizenship
• Party for Solidarity and Development of Senegal – Sunu Party
• Party for the Defence of the Interests of Kolda
• Party for Truth and Development
• Party for Unity and Rally
• Party of Hope
• Party of Independence and Labour Magatte Thiam
• Patriotic Action for Liberation
• Patriotic Convergence for Justice and Equity
• Popular Front
• Rally for the People
• Rally of the Ecologists of Senegal
• Rassemblement démocratique et populaire
• Rassemblement des patriotes républicains
• Rassemblement des travailleurs africains - Sénégal
• Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le changement
• Rassemblement pour l'unité et la paix
• Reenu-Rew
• Reform Movement for Social Development MRDS
• Rewmi
• Sàmm Sa Kàddu
• Sénégaal Kese
• Senegalese Communist Party communism Landing Savané
• Senegalese Democratic Bloc
• Senegalese Democratic Party liberalism Abdoulaye Wade
• Senegalese Democratic Party – Renewal
• Senegalese Democratic Union
• Senegalese Democratic Union – Renewal
• Senegalese Liberal Party
• Senegalese Party of Socialist Action
• Senegalese Patriotic Movement
• Senegalese Patriotic Rally/Jammi Rewmi
• Senegalese Popular Bloc
• Senegalese Popular Movement
• Senegalese Republican Movement
• Senegalese Socialist Party
• Senegalese Solidarity Party
• Social Democratic Party/Jant Bi
• Socialist Movement of the Senegalese Union
• Socialist Party of Senegal democratic socialism Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye
• Socialists United for Renaissance of Senegal
• Socialist Workers Organisation OST
• Takku Defaraat Sénégal
• The Servants – MPR
• Thiesian Democratic Front
• Union Centriste du Senegal
• Union démocratique des forces progressistes patriotiques
• Union des forces patriotiques
• Union des forces républicaines
• Union for Democratic Renewal URD
• Union for People's Democracy
• Union pour la République
• Union pour le renouveau démocratique/Front pour l'alternance
• Union progressiste sénégalaise African socialism; Pan-Africanism Léopold Sédar Senghor
• Waar Wi
• Wallu Sénégal

Census, population and demographic documents the observatory has located for this country. These are links to the publishers’ own files — the library does not rehost them.

• Projection de la population par localité et par sexe de 2014 à 2025 au Sénégal — Projections demographiques.xlsx hdx xlsx
• Libya - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators — Indicators_data_LY hdx csv
• Nepal - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators — Indicators_data_NP hdx csv
• Central African Republic - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators — Indicators_data_CF hdx csv
• Sudan - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators — Indicators_data_SD hdx csv
• Principaux indicateurs démographiques du Sénégal — Indices fécondité et autres.xlsx hdx xlsx
• HDX HAPI Data for Senegal — Geography & Infrastructure: Baseline Population for Senegal hdx csv
• Chad - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators — Indicators_data_TD hdx csv
• Senegal - Education Indicators — Demographic and Socio-economic indicator list hdx csv
• Senegal - Education Indicators — Demographic and Socio-economic data hdx csv
• Population of Senegal at Admin2 level — SEN_Projection_Population_2013-2025_Admin2_v2.xlsx hdx xlsx
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — PMI/RBM Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — DHS Quickstats Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — DHS Mobile Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — MDGs Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — Adult Mortality Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — IYCF Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — SDGs Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — Anemia Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — Anthropometry Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — Access to Health Care Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — FP2020 Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - National Demographic and Health Data — MICS indicators Data for Senegal hdx csv
• Senegal - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators — Indicators_data_SN hdx csv