====== Senegal ======

==== ASM Population: 67,000 ====
Total: Most reliable field based data from 2017: **67,000**\\
Min/max: no data. Best guess: **60,000 - 75,000**\\
Female participation: Data from 2021 sugests 50% -> **34,000**\\
Gold: presumingla all data is for ASGM. -> **67,000**\\

==== Data sources for estimation ====

===2021: female participation 50% ===
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/gold-doesnt-shine-for-women-in-mali-and-senegals-mines indicates:
  While definitive official data is limited due to the clandestine nature of most of the mining sites, analysis from 2018 in Senegal and 2019 in Mali estimated that women constituted half of the artisanal and small-scale mining labour force. Significantly, the female mining labour force is not only Senegalese and Malian but also includes various West African nationals from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria.

===2018: 15,000 ===
(IGF-18): 15,000

===2017: 67,000 ===
Data contained in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313688253_Artisanal_and_Small-Scale_Gold_Mining_in_Senegal_Livelihoods_Customary_Authority_and_Formalization:
  The structured interviews were applied to a total of eight primary hard-rock sites representing  five major sites (5000þpeople), two medium-sized sites  (500þpeople), and one small  site  (>250  people),  which  together  accounted  for  more  than  half  of  the  total estimated ASGM population in  Senegal of  approximately 67,000  people.

===2014: 15,000 ===
(UBC-14): Gold-only data produced by statistic modelling: \\
  Expected ASM population: 15,000 
  Estimated ASM gold production: 0.3 t/a

===1999: 3,000 ===
(ILO-99): Employment: 3,000\\
Number of mines: n/a \\
Illegal mines: n/a \\
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==== Publications ====
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==== Further Materials ====
Videos: \\
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLED18CFD35F4FD59B \\
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Articles: \\
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313688253_Artisanal_and_Small-Scale_Gold_Mining_in_Senegal_Livelihoods_Customary_Authority_and_Formalization
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/gold-doesnt-shine-for-women-in-mali-and-senegals-mines
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==== Data section ====