Mauritania
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Key facts
- Currency: Mauritanian ouguiya
- Capital city: Nouakchott
- Region: Western Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 1,030,700 km²
- Population: 4,736,139
- Political Leader: Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (President)
Latest news (see all)
Mauritania needs Russian experience in growing grain-crops -- Agriculture Minister
Read: TASS News Agency
2024-04-19
9 corpses found adrift in boat off Brazil were likely migrants from Mauritania and Mali, police say
Read: ABC News
2024-04-16
9 corpses found adrift in boat off Brazil were likely migrants from Mauritania and Mali, police say
Read: The Star
2024-04-16
9 corpses found adrift in boat off Brazil were likely migrants from Mauritania and Mali, police say
Read: Independent
2024-04-16
4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain's Canary Islands
Read: The Washington Times
2024-03-06
The EU announces 210 million euros in aid to help Mauritania combat irregular migration
Read: The Washington Times
2024-02-08
Metrics
General information
Business
| GDP | 9,780,860,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 9.53 annual % |
| Self-employed | 73.02 % of total employment |
| Unemployment | 10.62 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 65.95 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 397,100.00 km² |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 3,847.10 kt |
| Fertility rate | 4.40 births per woman |
| Forest area | 3,073 km² |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 275.65 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 13.80 years |
| Methane emissions | 6,896.75 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 3,273.34 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 2,414,911 |
| Male Population | 2,321,228 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 23.44 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 1,045,550.00 km² |
| Rural population | 2,040,187 |
| Urban land area | 373.54 km² |
| Urban population | 2,695,952 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 19.54 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 33.19 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 7.44 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 59.05 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 3.36 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.13 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 0.40 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 64 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 3.10 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 47.70 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 58.76 % of population |
| Net migration | 3,000 |
| Press freedom | 2.47 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 21,000 |
| Democracy score | 3.82 |
| Democracy type | Authoritarian |
| Military expenditure | 2.27 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 20.26 % |
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Coordinates: [20°0′N, -12°0′S]
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
