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Mauritania

Headline economic indicators for Mauritania, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Mauritania
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 1.5% -0.94 (-37.9%)
Consumer price index · 171.3 +2.61 (+1.5%)
GDP deflator inflation · 3.4% -0.48 (-12.5%)

GDP

GDP — Mauritania
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 4.0% -2.28 (-36.1%)
GDP per capita · 2,197.51 +92.97 (+4.4%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 3,680 +152.94 (+4.3%)
GDP · 11,679,910,946.44 +800,698,913 (+7.4%)
GDP, PPP · 40,795,887,531 +2,648,573,764 (+6.9%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 7,676 +296.07 (+4.0%)
GDP per capita growth · 1.2% -2.11 (-64.2%)
GNI per capita · 2,210 +100.00 (+4.7%)
Agriculture to GDP · 20.0% +0.62 (+3.2%)
Industry to GDP · 29.7% -0.76 (-2.5%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 4.6% -0.38 (-7.6%)
Services to GDP · 42.4% -0.06 (-0.1%)
Household consumption to GDP · 54.0% +2.12 (+4.1%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 44.3% +1.25 (+2.9%)
Gross savings to GDP · 34.4% +2.36 (+7.4%)

Labour

Labour — Mauritania
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 10.3% +0.06 (+0.6%)
Labour force participation rate · 40.8% -0.12 (-0.3%)
Female labour force participation rate · 26.2% -0.06 (-0.2%)
Youth unemployment rate · 22.9% -0.12 (-0.5%)
Employment to population ratio · 36.6% -0.14 (-0.4%)
Employment in agriculture · 32.1% -0.67 (-2.1%)
Employment in industry · 15.0% +0.12 (+0.8%)
Employment in services · 52.8% +0.55 (+1.1%)

Money

Money — Mauritania
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · 15.2% +9.97 (+191.5%)
Broad money to GDP · 28.4% +0.34 (+1.2%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 22.7% +0.68 (+3.1%)
Lending rate · 17.0% +0.00 (+0.0%)
Bank deposit rate · 5.7% +0.34 (+6.3%)
Official exchange rate · 36.49 -0.45 (-1.2%)

Trade

Trade — Mauritania
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · -9.6% -0.51 (-5.6%)
Exports to GDP · 39.9% -1.56 (-3.8%)
Imports to GDP · 54.2% +1.98 (+3.8%)
Trade to GDP · 94.0% +0.43 (+0.5%)
Exports of goods and services · 4,654,787,700.17 +149,615,569 (+3.3%)
Imports of goods and services · 6,327,162,514.08 +649,518,861 (+11.4%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · -1,315,020,525.72 +967,591 (+0.1%)
Current account balance (annual) · -1,039,382,012.63 -72,876,159 (-7.5%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 5.4% -7.81 (-59.0%)
Remittances received to GDP · 0.9% -0.70 (-44.6%)
Total reserves, including gold · 2,038,562,789.4 +545,378,143 (+36.5%)
Reserves in months of imports · 5.4 +0.78 (+16.8%)
External debt to GNI · 41.8% -1.21 (-2.8%)

Government

Government — Mauritania
Indicator Value Change
Government consumption to GDP · 16.0% +0.17 (+1.1%)
Education spending to GDP · 7.6% +2.89 (+61.4%)
Health spending to GDP · 4.3% -0.33 (-7.0%)

Demography

Demography — Mauritania
Indicator Value Change
Population · 5,315,065 +145,670 (+2.8%)
Population, long-run history · 4,259 +108.96 (+2.6%)
Population growth · 2.8% -0.11 (-3.6%)
Life expectancy · 68.7 +0.23 (+0.3%)
Fertility rate · 4.63 -0.07 (-1.5%)
Birth rate · 34.0 -0.39 (-1.1%)
Death rate · 5.4 -0.11 (-1.9%)
Urban population share · 61.5% +0.88 (+1.5%)
Population aged 65 and over · 3.2% +0.02 (+0.6%)
Under-five mortality rate · 36.9 -1.20 (-3.1%)
Population density · 5.0 +0.14 (+2.9%)
Net migration · -5,044 -2,859 (-130.8%)
Gini index · 32.0 -0.60 (-1.8%)

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

No separate list is published for Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.

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