Nauru and Senegal Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Senegal
Leader
President: Marcus Stephen	President: Macky Sall
Population
9,378	12,969,606
Life Expectancy
65.700 years	60.180 years
Capital City
	Dakar
Largest city
(population: )	Dakar (population: 2,476,400)
Human Development Index
0	0.502
GDP per capita
	$1,900 US
Literacy Rate
%	39.3%
Corruption Perception Index
NA	3.4
Percentage of Women in Parliament
0%	29.2%
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
	48.000%
Death Penalty
Abolished in practice	Abolished

Political System
republic	republic
Independence date
	4 April 1960 (from France); note - complete independence achieved upon dissolution of federation with Mali on 20 August 1960
Religions
Nauru Congregational 35.4%, Roman Catholic 33.2%, Nauru Independent Church 10.4%, other 14.1%, none 4.5%, unspecified 2.4% (2002 census)	Muslim 94%, Christian 5% (mostly Roman Catholic), indigenous beliefs 1%
Languages
Nauruan (official; a distinct Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes	French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka
Exports
	fish, groundnuts (peanuts), petroleum products, phosphates, cotton
External Debt
	$4,429,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
	Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar 438.77 (2008 est.), 481.83 (2007), 522.89 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004) note: since 1 January 1999, the XOF franc has been pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF francs per euro
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
	1.400%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count

Location
Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands	Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania
Area
21 km sq	196,722 km sq
Coastline
30 km	531 km
Climate
tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February)	tropical; hot, humid; rainy season (May to November) has strong southeast winds; dry season (December to April) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind

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Nauru vs Senegal