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Population trends in Senegal: Total population, rural population, and percent urban, 1960–2008
15 40 10 30 20 5 0 1960 1970 1980 Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank 2009).
TABLE 11.1 Population growth rates in Senegal, 1960–2008 (percent) Decade
1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99
2000–2008
Total growth rate 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.6
Rural growth rate 2.0 2.1 2.4 2.5 2.2
Source: Authors’ calculations based on World Development Indicators (World Bank 2009). 1990 2000
Total Rural Urban
2010 10 0
Urban growth rate 5.7 4.9 3.8 3.1 3.1
Income Figure 11.3 shows trends in GDP per capita and the proportion of Senegal’s GDP from agriculture. The general decline in per capita GDP, bottoming around 1994, reflects the poor performance of the Senegalese economy since 1960. The share of GDP from agriculture has been declining since the mid- 1980s despite noticeable improvement during the past decade, reflecting the emergence and growing dominance of a service sector. In general, agricultural