[2] The municipality has 58,290 inhabitants,[3][4] and its economy is dominated by agriculture, herding and small trade.

[5] In Say there is also a forty-year-old College of Secondary Education (Collège d'enseignement secondaire), with nine teachers and 675 students.

The town (now an urban commune) has today 70,000 people but bears little resemblance to the ancient center of Islamic learning.

Say is connected to the capital Niamey by an all-weather road and has a colorful Friday market to which many tourists flock.

[9][10] An extension of the railway from Benin to Niamey is proposed which would serve the iron ore mines at Say.