Protecting investors, director liability index in Senegal
Senegal: Protecting investors, director liability index was 1 in 2012. ▬ Flat
Protecting investors, director liability index in Senegal, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
Senegal recorded 1 for protecting investors, director liability index in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
That places Senegal 32nd out of 51 countries with data for 2012, putting it in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Senegal
- 29 Djibouti 2 compare
- 29 Kenya 2 compare
- 29 Morocco 2 compare
- 32 Benin 1 compare
- 32 Burkina Faso 1 compare
- 32 Cameroon 1 compare
- 32 Central African Republic 1 compare
- 32 Chad 1 compare
- 32 Comoros 1 compare
- 32 Congo 1 compare
- 32 Cote d'Ivoire 1 compare
- 32 Equatorial Guinea 1 compare
- 32 Gabon 1 compare
- 32 Gambia 1 compare
- 32 Guinea 1 compare
- 32 Guinea-Bissau 1 compare
- 32 Liberia 1 compare
- 32 Mali 1 compare
- 32 Niger 1 compare
- 32 Sao Tome and Principe 1 compare
- 32 Togo 1 compare
- 32 Zimbabwe 1 compare
More private sector data for Senegal
- Merchandise trade 60.0% (2025)
- Food imports 19.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 46.4% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 11.95 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 21.6% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 22.3% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 10.24 billion current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports 1.27 billion current US$ (2023)
- Transport services 32.1% (2023)
- Computer, communications and other services 56.6% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is protecting investors, director liability index in Senegal?
- Protecting investors, director liability index in Senegal was 1 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Senegal?
- The highest recorded value was 1 in 2005.
- What is the lowest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Senegal?
- The lowest recorded value was 1 in 2005.
- How does Senegal rank for protecting investors, director liability index?
- Senegal ranks 32nd out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is protecting investors, director liability index rising or falling in Senegal?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Senegal data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Protecting investors, director liability index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Director liability index measures a plaintiff’s ability to hold directors of firms liable for damages to the company, that is, measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors’ misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. The indicators distinguish 3 dimensions of investor protection: transparency of transactions (extent of disclosure index), liability for self-dealing (extent of director liability index) and shareholders’ ability to sue officers and directors for misconduct (ease of shareholder suits index). The data come from a survey of corporate lawyers and are based on company laws, court rules of evidence and securities regulations. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.