Senegal
Republic of Senegal
- Capital
- Dakar
- Region
- Western Africa
- Population, 2025
- 19 million
- Currency
- XOF
- Area
- 196,722 km²
Across Senegal's 3 priced cities, one person needs about $1,655 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $349.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%18
- Safety20%55
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%80
- Connectivity10%18
- Cost10%39
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 43%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 54.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 45.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2015
- 0.3
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #122 worldwide
- 45
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +95%
Cities in Senegal
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Kolda | 62 | — | — | — | — | 103.6K | Low confidence |
| 2Ziguinchor | 62 | 52.0 | $438 | — | — | 214.9K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 3Kaolack | 61 | — | — | — | — | 298.9K | Low confidence |
| 4Tivaouane | 60 | — | — | — | — | 102.7K | Low confidence |
| 5Thies | 60 | — | — | — | — | 317.8K | Low confidence |
| 6Thiès Nones | 60 | — | — | — | — | 252.3K | Low confidence |
| 7Mbour | 60 | — | — | — | — | 284.2K | Low confidence |
| 8Diourbel | 59 | — | — | — | — | 157.6K | Low confidence |
| 9Tiébo | 59 | — | — | — | — | 100.3K | Low confidence |
| 10Tambacounda | 59 | — | — | — | — | 149.1K | Low confidence |
| 11Mbaké | 59 | — | — | — | — | 101.5K | Low confidence |
| 12Touba | 59 | — | — | — | — | 1.1M | Low confidence |
| 13Pikine | 59 | — | — | — | — | 1.2M | Low confidence |
| 14Rufisque est | 59 | — | — | — | — | 221.1K | Low confidence |
| 15Guédiawaye | 59 | — | — | — | — | 329.7K | Low confidence |
| 16Rufisque | 59 | — | — | — | — | 295.5K | Low confidence |
| 17Louga | 58 | — | — | — | — | 113.4K | Low confidence |
| 18Saint-Louis | 57 | 53.6 | $442 | — | — | 254.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 19Dakar | 42 | 54.8 | $831 | $349 | 24.1 | 2.6M | Medium confidence, 18 contributors |