Rankings · Senegal

Presidents

• Real GDP during each president's tenureANSD quarterly national accounts via the IMF (QNEA, B1GQ, chain-linked volumes re-referenced to 2014, seasonally adjusted: the IMF carries no unadjusted series), summed over the trailing four quarters, from 2014; the World Bank's yearly GDP at constant 2014 prices before, rescaled to 2014
• Real GDP per person during each president's tenureANSD quarterly GDP via the IMF (chain-linked volumes re-referenced to 2014), summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's yearly GDP before 2014), over the population (World Bank, UN estimates) interpolated to the quarter
• Unemployment rate during each president's tenureANSD, Enquête nationale sur l'emploi au Sénégal (ENES), persons aged 15 and over, the ILO's strict definition as ILOSTAT computes it from the survey's microdata: the yearly round of 2015, then quarterly from April-June 2016 (no survey in April-June 2017, in 2018, 2020 and 2021); ANSD's own headline is a broader rate that also counts people available for work but not looking (19.2 % in July-September 2025, against 3.2 % in the strict sense)
• Employment rate, 15 and over during each president's tenureANSD, Enquête nationale sur l'emploi au Sénégal (ENES), persons aged 15 and over, the ILO's definition of employment as ILOSTAT computes it from the survey's microdata: the yearly round of 2015, then quarterly from April-June 2016 (no survey in April-June 2017, in 2018, 2020 and 2021); ANSD's own employment rate leaves out unpaid family workers (40.5 % in July-September 2025)
• Inflation (CPI) during each president's tenureANSD harmonised consumer price index (IHPC) via the IMF (CPI, all items, ANSD's bases spliced by the IMF): Dakar's index before the 2014 base, then a national one (prices collected in the towns and countryside of five regions, six zones since the 2023 base), change on the same month a year earlier
• Consumer prices (CPI) during each president's tenureANSD harmonised consumer price index (IHPC) via the IMF (CPI, all items, ANSD's bases spliced into one index by the IMF, 2010 = 100): Dakar's before the 2014 base, national after
• Government debt during each president's tenureIMF World Economic Outlook (GGXWDG_NGDP), general government gross debt, the years the IMF marks actual; from 2019 the figures as revised after the Court of Auditors' report of 12 February 2025 found debt and deficits the previous government had not declared (debt at the end of 2023: 99.7 % of GDP in the audit, against 74.4 % reported); from 2000 (the WEO's figures for the 1990s are not plausible)
• Government deficit during each president's tenureIMF World Economic Outlook (GGXCNL_NGDP), general government net borrowing (a surplus is negative), the years the IMF marks actual; from 2019 the figures as revised after the Court of Auditors' report of 12 February 2025 found debt and deficits the previous government had not declared (debt at the end of 2023: 99.7 % of GDP in the audit, against 74.4 % reported); from 2000 (the WEO's figures for the 1990s are not plausible)
• Population during each president's tenureWorld Bank (SP.POP.TOTL) from the UN's World Population Prospects, mid-year
• Happiness during each president's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published
• Government effectiveness during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Regulatory quality during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Rule of law during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Control of corruption during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Corruption perceptions index during each president's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
• Voice and accountability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Electoral democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Liberal democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Freedom of expression during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Political stability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval