Senegal

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
16,294,270 1
Urban
47.20% 1
Rural
52.80% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
1.7% 2
Homicides
7.30 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
64 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
82 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
5.03 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
4.70% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
67 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
52.05% 6
Internet Users
18% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$1,050 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
38.0% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
865,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
5.10
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
5,716
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
2,567
First Communions per Year
5,700
Confirmations per Year
4,648
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
71,726
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
37,168
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
9,983
Church Marriages per Year
733
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
676
Priests
561
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
858
Catholics per Priest
1,542
Parishes
163
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
343
Catholic Hospitals
2
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
1