Dengue in Senegal
Country profile for Senegal (Africa): official dengue surveillance data reported to WHO, analysed by the SENTINARA early-warning engine.
Key facts
- Senegal reported 1,873 dengue cases from January to August 2026, +21.9% compared with the same period of 2025, according to WHO Global Dengue Surveillance.
- Deaths reported in 2026 to August: 10 (10 in the same period of 2025).
- In 2025, the last full year, Senegal recorded 12,463 cases, an incidence of 65.8 per 100,000 people and a case fatality rate of 0.080%.
- Automatic early-warning analysis is not available because there are fewer than 36 consecutive months of data, too short for seasonal analysis.
- OpenDengue holds complete annual totals for Senegal since 2024.
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Data updated 2026-10-31. Sources: WHO Global Dengue Surveillance; OpenDengue V1.3 (Clarke et al., 2025), doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.24259573; Dinas Kesehatan Kota Semarang; World Bank Open Data; NASA POWER.