Senegal: How to live in Dakar, most expensive city in West Africa?

Video the city has become the most expensive in West Africa in 2022 in 2022 in front of Abidjan, according to a classification of the cabinet Mercer.

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How to live with 71,000 CFA francs (some 108 euros), the average salary of informal workers, in the Senegalese capital, when life has never been so expensive? The consumer price increased by 11 % between September 2021 and September 2022 and those of foodstuffs increased by 18 % over the same period.

 Affi Hope Gape, saleswoman Street in Dakar, September 17, 2022. Affi Hope Gape, Street saleswoman in Dakar, September 17, 2022.

access to the Property has become very complicated, the land selling today 15 times more expensive than thirty years ago. 42 % of Dakarois are tenants and pay an average of 64,502 monthly CFA francs (almost 100 euros) for their accommodation.

Le Monde Africa followed in her daily Hope Gabe, a seller from Arachid Street in the Ngor district of Dakar.

integrated regional survey on employment and the informal sector (Eri-Esi), Senegal, 2017

Harmonized survey on household living conditions (EHCVM) in Senegal

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