Report
Senegal is unusual among sub-Saharan African countries in that more than 70 per cent of its population is accessible by phone. Teledensity has grown from 0.6 per cent in 1990 to 2.5 per cent in 2000, and it is second only to South Africa in terms of quality of coverage. More than 40 per cent of Senegal’s population of 10 million lives in cities, half of them in the capital Dakar. The country is ranked 156th poorest of 175 states (UNDP, 2003) – 67 per cent of the population lives on incomes of US$2 a day (UNDP, 2003). This report, by Panos, looks at the economic, geographical and telecoms landscape in Senegal.