- Capital: Dakar
- POPULATION: 11.987 Million
- LANGUAGES: French(official)
- Median age: 19
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 32.78
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 9.42
- Life expectancy: 59.25
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 40.2%
  male: 50%
  female: 30.7% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 4 April 1960 from France
- GDP per capita: $1,700

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