ACOG - Senegal  - IBM

Geography

Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania

Area:
total area: 196,190 sq km
land area: 192,000 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than South Dakota

Land boundaries: total 2,640 km, The Gambia 740 km, Guinea 330 km, Guinea-Bissau 338km, Mali 419 km, Mauritania 813 km

Coastline: 531 km


People

Population: 9,007,080 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 45% (female 2,004,514; male 2,021,251)
15-64 years: 52% (female 2,398,609; male 2,301,236)
65 years and over: 3% (female 140,128; male 141,342)

Population growth rate: 3.12% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 42.87 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 11.64 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 73.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 57.16 years
male: 55.65 years
female: 58.71 years

Total fertility rate: 6.03 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Wolof 36%, Fulani 17%, Serer 17%, Toucouleur 9%, Diola 9%, Mandingo9%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 2%

Religions: Muslim 92%, indigenous beliefs 6%, Christian 2% (mostly Roman Catholic)

Languages: French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Diola, Mandingo

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1988)
total population: 27%
male: 37%
female: 18%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Senegal
conventional short form: Senegal

Type: republic under multiparty democratic rule

Capital: Dakar

Independence: 20 August 1960 (from France; The Gambia and Senegal signed an agreementon 12 December 1981 that called for the creation of a loose confederationto be known as Senegambia, but the agreement was dissolved on 30 September 1989)

Constitution: 3 March 1963, revised 1991


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $12.3 billion

National product real growth rate: -2%

National product per capita: $1,450

Inflation rate (consumer prices): -1.8%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 230,000 kW
production: 720 million kWh
consumption per capita: 79 kWh



Olympic Factoid
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