Mauritania
Mauritania in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Mauritania recorded GDP per capita: 2,198 (2025), ranking 173 of 212 worldwide; Population: 5.32 million (2025), ranking 125 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 68.7 (2024), ranking 164 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 1.55% (2025), ranking 137 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+7236%) and Inflation the largest decrease (-79%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 5 of 19 comparable series are higher and 14 are lower.
Its population of 5.32 million (2025) makes it a smaller population by the standards of this dataset.
All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 11,679,910,946.44 | 2025 | +7236.0% |
| GDP per capita | 2,197.51 | 2025 | +1067.9% |
| GDP growth | 4.03% | 2025 | +454.5% |
| Population | 5,315,065 | 2025 | +544.8% |
| Population growth | 2.78% | 2025 | +6.1% |
| Urban population | 61.49% | 2025 | +796.8% |
| Inflation | 1.55% | 2025 | -79.2% |
| Life expectancy | 68.71 | 2024 | +57.6% |
| Infant mortality | 30.2 | 2024 | -77.4% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.97 | 2024 | +220.0% |
| GDP (PPP) | 40,795,887,531.19 | 2025 | +909.6% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 7,675.52 | 2025 | +270.7% |
| Labor participation | 40.77% | 2025 | -12.3% |
| Unemployment | 10.32% | 2025 | +3.5% |
| Internet users | 45.78% | 2024 | — |
| Electricity access | 52.2% | 2024 | +173.3% |
| Education spending | 7.61% | 2024 | +379.9% |
| Forest area | 0.29% | 2023 | -37.7% |
| Health spending | 4.34% | 2023 | +28.6% |