Healthy diet unaffordable in Senegal

Name: Healthy diet unaffordable in Senegal
Creator: FAOSTAT
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In Senegal, 45.5% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2017.

People unable to afford a healthy diet % of the population Data: 2017 to 2025 Source: FAOSTAT

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Senegal, 2025 45.5%e % of the population

Change from 2024 −1.9percentage points 2024: 47.4%

World, 2025 32.7%e Official aggregate

Position in 2025 50th of 145 See the full ranking

Healthy diet unaffordable in Senegal over time

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% of the population. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

People unable to afford a healthy diet (% of the population), 2017 to 2025
Period	Senegal	World
2025	45.5%e (Estimated value)	32.7%e (Estimated value)
2024	47.4%e (Estimated value)	34.3%e (Estimated value)
2023	49.4%e (Estimated value)	35.4%e (Estimated value)
2022	49.8%e (Estimated value)	36.7%e (Estimated value)
2021	47.9%e (Estimated value)	37.4%e (Estimated value)
2020	49.0%e (Estimated value)	39.6%e (Estimated value)
2019	47.6%e (Estimated value)	38.0%e (Estimated value)
2018	49.5%e (Estimated value)	39.0%e (Estimated value)
2017	54.7%e (Estimated value)	41.0%e (Estimated value)

Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

That is a change of −1.9 percentage points from 47.4% in 2024.
Since 2017, when it was 54.7%, the figure has changed by −9.2 percentage points.
Among the 145 countries with data for 2025, Senegal has the 50th highest value.
The figure for the world in 2025 was 32.7%.

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All statistics for Senegal

Cost of a healthy diet Int$3.83e per person per day 2025 · FAOSTAT Pesticide use 0.15e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Nitrogen fertiliser use 13.9e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Agriculture share of GDP 17.1% 2025 · World Bank Cereal yield 2,004 kg per hectare 2024 · World Bank Agricultural land 49.4% 2024 · World Bank

Source and dates

Original producer: FAOSTAT
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT
Dataset or series code: CAHD · dataset details · view at source
Selection: Item Code=7005 Element Code=6121
Observation period: 2017 to 2025 for Senegal
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (FAO statistical database terms)
Attribution: Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0

How Senegal compares in 2025 Neighbouring positions among 145 countries with a value for 2025.

47 Guatemala 47.3%e (Estimated value)
48 Côte d'Ivoire 46.6%e (Estimated value)
49 Lebanon 46.4%e (Estimated value)
50 Senegal 45.5%e (Estimated value)
51 Philippines 45.0%e (Estimated value)
52 Armenia 44.0%e (Estimated value)
53 Gambia 43.7%e (Estimated value)

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What this measures

Share of the population whose income, after setting aside an amount for other basic needs, is too low to buy the cheapest healthy diet available locally.

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