Senegal Poverty Rate 1991-2025

Senegal poverty rate for 2021 was 75.60%, a 1.2% increase from 2018.
  • Senegal poverty rate for 2018 was 74.40%, a 16.5% decline from 2011.
  • Senegal poverty rate for 2011 was 90.90%, a 1% decline from 2005.
  • Senegal poverty rate for 2005 was 91.90%, a 2.4% decline from 2001.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.