Senegal

Senegal grew 6.7% in real terms in 2025, and US$ GDP rose 15.0% to US$37.0 billion. The 8.4-percentage-point gap between the two was mostly exchange-rate and price effects, not output. The country edged up 1 place to 109th, between Georgia and El Salvador.

Services account for 46.3% of output and industry 26.1%, with manufacturing at 13.2% and agriculture at 17.1%. Inflation was a mild 1.5% and unemployment 2.7%. The figure that stands out is debt: government gross debt reached 127.7% of GDP.

With 18.9 million people, output per person is US$1,955, 162nd of 196, and $5,463 international dollars on a purchasing-power basis, 159th. GDP has grown 6.2x since 2000, when it stood at US$6.0 billion and ranked 110th, almost exactly where it sits today. Senegal is the 14th largest of 47 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa and about the size of the Anchorage, AK metro area.