Remittance corridor · World Bank RPW · 2025Q3
Senegal → Mali
Average cost sits in the upper fleet tercile at 25.7% on this Senegal → Mali route - senders pay more than typical RPW-tracked corridors.
- 25.7%
- Average cost
- 1.5%
- Cheapest · Orange Money
- 5
- Providers tracked
How the 25.7% average cost breaks down
World Bank RPW splits total remittance cost into the provider's transaction fee and the exchange-rate margin applied to the transfer. Same 2025Q3 figures as the detail table below.
Corridor-cost tercile vs fleet
Senegal → Mali posts 25.7% average cost, above the fleet upper tercile (~6.6%), ranking #342 of 348. Cheapest tracked floor: 1.5% via Orange Money.
- #342 of 348
- cheapest-cost corpus rank
- 25.7%
- average cost of a $200 transfer
- +18.4pp
- vs the 7.3% average of 348 corridors
- +22.7pp
- gap to the UN 3% target
Compared against the 348 corridors in the 2025Q3 release, not a generic headline figure.
Based on average cost, delivery speed, FX margin, provider competition, and cost trend from World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide data, benchmarked against all 348 tracked corridors - not a quote or a prediction of what you will pay.
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Where this corridor sits by provider panel size
Senegal → Mali has 5 World Bank RPW providers among 377 tracked corridors (inventory signal, not a cost-quality ranking). Orthogonal to the cost comparison below.
Senegal → Mali vs all corridors by provider count
Where this corridor's RPW provider panel sits among every tracked route
5 304th of 377 higher than 73 of 377 corridors
Corridors, banded by RPW provider inventory
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Source World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide · 2026-08-10
How Senegal → Mali compares
Average cost of a $200 transfer, percent, lower is cheaper
25.70% average - 22.7pp above target
Cost trend: Senegal → Mali
Average and cheapest cost of a $200 transfer over time, percent
World Bank RPW fee spread
Release 2025Q3 SN→ML
25.7% avg · 1.5% floor · 24.20pp spread on $200
- AVG 25.7%
- CHEAP 1.5%
- SPREAD 24.20pp
- SDG +22.7pp
- RANK #342 of 348
- REL 2025Q3
- PANEL 5
Cross-sender cost peers
Fee spread manifest for Senegal → Mali: entity-varying RPW stamps plus cross-sender ABS(avg_cost) peers from the current release. Compare corridors side-by-side →
High transfer cost on Senegal → Mali
World Bank RPW prices Senegal → Mali at 25.70% (2025Q3) - above the fleet upper tercile (~6.6%). Senders here pay more than typical tracked corridors, 19.3 pp above the ~6.4% global average.
That cheapest figure comes from the World Bank's mystery-shopping survey: trained researchers pose as customers and obtain real quotes for a standardized $200 transfer, across the 5 banks, money transfer operators, post offices and mobile-money providers RPW tracks on this corridor. It is a snapshot from that survey quarter, not a live guarantee -- confirm the current rate directly with the provider before sending.
Costs on this route have stayed essentially flat, moving 0.00 percentage points over the tracked period, unusual stability against the broader downward trend seen on most corridors. Across 53 quarters on record, average cost ranged 1.3%–25.7%, with 9 quarters at or under the UN 3% target. It sits 22.7 pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target.
About Senegal → Mali data
PlainRemit compares international money-transfer costs across tracked corridors so you can see which routes and providers charge the least before you send money abroad. This corridor's figures are computed directly from the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) quarterly survey, a mystery-shopping panel of actual transfer quotes for a standardized $200 transfer.
Average 25.70%; cheapest observed 1.50% via Orange Money; 5 providers tracked across 53 RPW quarters; vintage 2026-08-10.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to send money from Senegal to Mali?
Average 25.70% of the transfer amount (World Bank RPW, 2025Q3) - upper fleet tercile (above ~6.6%). Cheapest observed: 1.50% via Orange Money.
What is the cheapest way to send money from Senegal to Mali?
Lowest RPW survey quote: 1.50% (Orange Money). Panel is low-tercile with only 5 providers tracked.
Is the Senegal to Mali corridor meeting the UN SDG cost target?
Not yet: 25.7% is 22.7pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target and in the upper fleet cost tercile.
Where does Senegal → Mali sit among tracked remittance corridors?
According to World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide average cost among 348 tracked corridors on PlainRemit, Senegal → Mali ranks #342 of 348 (cheapest = #1). Ordinal uses latest_avg_cost ASC matching /rankings/cheapest. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.