Mauritania
64 figures for Mauritania, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Mauritania compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $2,198 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $7,676 (2025)
- Economic growth +4.0% (2025)
- Unemployment 10.3% (2025)
- Inflation +2.5% (2024)
- Exports 41.4% (2024)
- Income per person $6,267 (2023)
- Household wealth 40.3 (2015)
- Poorer households 65.6% (2015)
- Wealth inequality 0.35 (2015)
- Women in paid work 29.1% (2001)
People
- Population 5.02 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.78% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.63 (2024)
- Typical age 17.1 (2023)
- Living in cities 61.5% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.563 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.886 (2023)
- People per household 5.8 (2015)
- People over 65 3.7% (2015)
- Children under 15 47.7% (2015)
- Women’s age at first marriage 18.1 (2015)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.7 (2015)
Health
- Life expectancy 68.5 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 36.9 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 381 (2023)
- Health spending per person $92 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 93% (2024)
- Overweight adults 47.2% (2022)
- Stunted children 27.9% (2015)
- Overweight children 1.8% (2015)
- Homes with piped water 35.9% (2015)
- Homes with a flush toilet 19.1% (2015)
Education
- Years of schooling 4.9 (2023)
- Expected years in school 7.9 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 36.0% (2020)
- Education spending 1.4% (2022)
- Teens in school 60.6% (2015)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 1.01 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 5.24 million (2024)
- Forest cover 0.3% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 35.2 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 22.1% (2021)
- Average temperature 28.8 (2022)
Energy
- Access to electricity 52.2% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 22.7% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 98.9% (2018)
Technology
- Internet users 45.8% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 109.9 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.4 (2022)
- Homes with internet 3.5% (2015)
- Homes with a mobile phone 90.2% (2015)
Food and farming
- Hunger 8.7% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,817 (2023)
- Farmland 38.5% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 32.1% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.33 (2025)
- Human rights 0.51 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.95 (2025)
- Women in parliament 23.3% (2025)
- Military spending 2.2% (2024)
- Clean government 41.7 (2022)