Is prostitution legal in Senegal?
Legal & regulated
Prostitution is legal and regulated in Senegal with specific requirements for registration and health checks.
Senegal is one of 61 countries classified “Legal & regulated” for sex work — 28% of the 219 with data. (Also searched as prostitution.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Prostitution in Africa
- Last checked
- 17 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- The Gambia
- Illegal Prostitution is explicitly stated to be illegal in The Gambia.
- Guinea
- Illegal Prostitution is explicitly stated to be illegal in Guinea.
- Mauritania
- Illegal Prostitution is explicitly stated to be illegal in Mauritania.
- Sierra Leone
- Legal & regulated Prostitution is legal in Sierra Leone, though soliciting and third-party involvement are prohibited.
- Mali
- Legal & regulated Prostitution is explicitly stated to be legal in Mali, though third-party activities are illegal.
- Cape Verde
- Decriminalized / unregulated Selling sex is legal, with no specific laws prohibiting it except for trafficking.
Other laws in Senegal
- Same-Sex Activity
- Illegal
- Age of Consent
- 16–17
- Incest Laws
- Criminal offense
- Marriage Age
- 18+
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.