Senegal is a unitary semi-presidential republic of fourteen regions. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko in May 2026 and appointed Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo, while the government negotiates with the IMF over high public debt.
In the 12 Axes register, Senegal leans hardest on Security – Freedom: Freedom 68%; the register median is balanced 50%.
Take the test and this line shows how close your twelve scores are to Senegal, and the axis where you differ most.
Where Senegal sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Unitary
Unitary state with fourteen regions
Centrist
President Faye dismissed PM Sonko May 2026
Liberal
Free press, protest crackdowns
Non-Interventionist
Pan-African and non-aligned diplomacy
Neutral
Peacekeeping contributor, no major wars
Centrist
French official, many national languages
Mixed Economic
Mixed economy under IMF pressure
Balanced
State role in energy and agriculture
Free Trade
ECOWAS member, regional customs union
Moderate
Secular state, Sufi brotherhoods influential
Conservative
2026 law doubled penalties for same-sex acts
Neutral
No distinct state stance
Set against the median of all 195 countries in the register.
Security – Freedom
On Security – Freedom, Senegal is at Freedom 68%. The register median is balanced 50%.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Senegal is at Unitary 68%, almost the register median of Unitary 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · freedomhouse.org
Map: Flappiefh, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
Last updated: 2026-10-15
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
