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Senegal's new business registrations by quarter, second quarter of 2025 to third quarter of 2026

Q2 25Q3 25Q4 25Q1 26Q2 26Q3 26
Senegal · Macro & prices
17.8%

Senegal business registrations climb 17.8% in third quarter

Analysis: The increase partly reflects a weak third quarter in 2025: registrations were just 0.4% above the same period in 2024. Excluding landowners, whose registrations fell 74.7%, the total rose 28.7%, by our calculation. Growth was concentrated in small-scale commerce, not manufacturing. Retail and other commerce accounted for 70.5% of new sole proprietorships, against 1.5% for textiles and 1.1% for food processing. Dakar represented 51.7% of registrations. These figures measure newly issued identification numbers, not businesses operating or creating jobs. ANSD is due to publish its next bulletin on February 7, 2027.

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Source

New registrations in the national business register (NINEA): 19,686 in the second quarter of 2025, 20,213 in the third, 26,685 in the fourth, 24,449 in the first quarter of 2026, 22,180 in the second and 23,804 in the third. Registrations count new identification numbers, not active businesses, and are seasonal, so compare each quarter with the same quarter a year earlier. Source: statistics agency ANSD, quarterly NINEA bulletins.. ANSD, Dakaractu, « Créations : 22 180 nouvelles immatriculations au NINEA, en baisse sur trois mois mais en hausse de 12,7 % sur un an », August 10, 2026 (ANSD BTNIN, second quarter 2026), Q2 2025 and Q1 2026 and Q2 2026; ANSD, ANSD, Bulletin trimestriel sur les nouvelles immatriculations au NINEA (BTNIN), troisième trimestre 2025 (vie-publique.sn copy), Q3 2025; ANSD, ANSD, Bulletin trimestriel sur les nouvelles immatriculations au NINEA au Sénégal, T4 2025 (vie-publique.sn copy), Q4 2025; ANSD, ANSD, Bulletin trimestriel sur les nouvelles immatriculations au NINEA (BTNIN), T3 2026, posted October 29, 2026, Q3 2026

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  1. Closes 6 NovBoarding-area seating for Cotonou airport · Benin · Benin airports company SAB (Société des Aéroports du Bénin)
  2. Closes 6 NovConsulting firm for designs, tender documents and impact studies for valley development (rice) · Senegal · PNAR, Ministry of Agriculture
  3. Closes 6 NovConverting temporary learning spaces into permanent classrooms in the Nakambé region · Burkina Faso · Enabel (Belgian development agency)
  4. Closes 6 NovFeasibility study for a heavy-truck fleet renewal fund · Burkina Faso · Transport Sector Program permanent secretariat (SP-PST), for the PRISE economic infrastructure rehabilitation project
  5. Closes 6 NovIndependent verification agent for the public resource management program · Ivory Coast · Public resource management for jobs and growth program PGRPEC
  6. Closes 6 NovPalm oil storage center at Adja-Ouèrè · Benin · Plateau agricultural development agency ATDA (Pôle 6)
  7. Closes 9 NovCompletion of the business school (EHEC) building in Nouakchott · Mauritania · Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and Land Management
  8. Closes 9 NovConnection materials for new electricity customers · Togo · Ministry Delegate for Energy and Mining Resources (public procurement officer), IDEA project
  9. Closes 9 NovCrop seeds and seedlings for homestead gardens in 21 states (three lots) · Nigeria · Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria 2.0 (ANRiN 2.0) project
  10. Closes 9 NovDesign review and supervision of the Bansara irrigation scheme, Cross River · Nigeria · Cross River State project unit of the Sustainable Power and Irrigation for Nigeria (SPIN) project
  11. Closes 9 NovExpansion of the canteen at the Agostinho Neto secondary school in Bissau · Guinea-Bissau · UNICEF Guinea-Bissau (supply office, Bissau)
  12. Closes 9 NovSupply of materials and equipment for OSPs in Mauritania · Mauritania · Enabel, the Belgian development agency
  13. Closes 10 NovAwareness campaigns on HIV, road safety and the environment along the Tamaské roads · Niger · Ministry of Equipment and Infrastructure, Tamaské–Tahoua and Tamaské–Mararraba road project (PARTTM)
  14. Closes 10 NovConstruction equipment for the Lomé-Cotonou road rehabilitation, phase 2 (three lots) · Togo · Ministry Delegate for Public Works and Infrastructure (Directorate General of Public Works)
  15. Closes 10 NovDrilling of 15 exploratory boreholes in the two Hodh regions · Mauritania · PROGRES natural resources and producers project
  16. Closes 10 NovEquipment for the Mopoyem and Abengourou fish fingerling stations · Ivory Coast · Food value chain development project PDC2V
  17. Closes 10 NovLarge-model rutting tester for the national roads laboratory LNR-BTP (relaunch) · Senegal · AGEROUTE
  18. Closes 10 NovPilot for systematic registration of customary land rights · The Gambia · Ministry of Agriculture, Central Projects Coordination Unit (CPCU)
  19. Closes 10 NovPrequalification of building and public works contractors for a three-year framework · Burkina Faso · Plan International Burkina Faso
  20. Closes 10 NovPrequalification: Kouroussa and 16 nearby localities electricity distribution network · Guinea · Electricité de Guinée (EDG) for the Ministry of Energy
  21. Closes 10 NovRehabilitation, densification and extension of the Labé electricity grid · Guinea · Electricité de Guinée (EDG), PAAEG 2 electricity access project unit
  22. Closes 10 NovTen motor pumps for village irrigation schemes in Timbuktu and Gao · Mali · Niger Basin climate adaptation program, Mali component (PIDACC/BN-Mali), Ministry of Energy and Water
  23. Closes 11 NovAerial imagery, orthophotos and cadastral mapping of eight urban areas for the tax office · Togo · Ministry of Finance and Budget, through the PAGDSP project unit (for the revenue office OTR)
  24. Closes 11 NovEight exploratory boreholes in the Néma and Oualata uplands (two lots) · Mauritania · National Water Resources Center (CNRE)
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