- ISO 3166
SN- Main language + region
wo-SN- Currency
- XOF · West African CFA Franc
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Senegal
Senegal has 18.8M people, and 11.3M of them are online. Wolof is the most widely spoken language at 70%, one of 10 languages CLDR lists here. Wolof and French are official nationally, and Fula and Serer are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to wo-SN.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
11.3M
0%world median 81%100%
60% of 18.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,955
Higher than 17% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
76%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
10
Wolof 70% · French 26% · Fula 21%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
442
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
50%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Senegal
share of 18.8M people
- Wolofofficial70%13.2M
- Frenchofficial26%4.9M
- Fularegional21%4M
- Sererregional11%2.1M
- Jola-Fonyiregional2.6%490K
- Saafi-Saafiregional1.5%282.7K
- Mandjakregional0.8%145.1K
- Balanta-Ganjaregional0.7%115K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 2 more languages sit below the top eight, at 0.5% combined.
CLDR records Wolof in 2 territories and 13.2M speakers in total; Senegal holds 100% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Wolof profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (wo-SN).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 Awril, 2026
Short: 21-04-2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
F CFA 1.235
1,234.56 in XOF · West African CFA Franc