HEAD TO HEAD
Mali vs Senegal
Verdict
Mali and Senegal are close to evenly matched, 50–50 on the Relative Advantage Index.
Mali leads on military spending (63% of the combined total, $953m) and active personnel (60% of the combined total, 21.0k), which Senegal offsets elsewhere.
1 factor — nuclear warheads — could not be scored because the figure is unpublished for at least one side. Those factors are excluded and the remaining weights renormalised, never substituted.
Factor by factor
| Factor | Mali | Share | Senegal | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Military spending SIPRI Milex | $953m | 63%37% | $567m | 33% |
Economic size (GDP) World Bank WDI | $26.8bn | 45%55% | $32.8bn | 27% |
Active personnel COW NMC | 21.0k | 60%40% | 14.0k | 20% |
Logistics & power projection OurAirports | 5 | 24%76% | 16 | 20% |
Shares are each side's portion of the combined total for that factor. Weights are renormalised across the factors both sides publish — see the methodology. Data read 2026-10-22.
