Mauritania — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Mauritania, 1986–2025.
Latest value · 2025
1.55%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -79.2% since 1986
Inflation for Mauritania was 1.55% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 40 years, from 1986 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 12.93% in 1989. The lowest was 1.32% in 1988 (about 1.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -3.94% per year.
Mauritania ranks 137 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 73%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Mauritania sits below it. It peaked in 1989 and has fallen 88% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 52%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
1.55%
First (1986)
7.43%
Change
-79.2%
Highest
12.93%
in 1989
Lowest
1.32%
in 1988
Average
5.44%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-3.94%
Years of data
40
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.55% |
| 2024 | 2.49% |
| 2023 | 4.95% |
| 2022 | 9.53% |
| 2021 | 3.57% |
| 2020 | 2.39% |
| 2019 | 2.3% |
| 2018 | 3.07% |
| 2017 | 2.25% |
| 2016 | 1.47% |
| 2015 | 3.25% |
| 2014 | 3.53% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services. A negative value means deflation. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG — Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.