Mauritania Analytics

Mauritania is a mid-size country with 0.1% of the world's population. Mauritania is a republic country. It has 2 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Arabic : 3,359,185
2. French : 705,500

Mother Tongue : Arabic

Literacy Rate (%) : 53.5

Details

Country Capital	:	Nauakchott
GDP Per capita	:	7,113
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	129^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	64
Unemployment Rate	:	11
Number of Internet Users	:	2,714,000
Internet Users Rank	:	120^th/195
Area	:	1,030,588
Area Rank	:	27^th/195
Total Population	:	4,615
Total Population Rank	:	124^th/195

Continent: Africa

Cities with > 100K popln: 2

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Mauritania Highlights

Mauritania is the 124^th ranked country in population and 27^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Worse than World Average-

1. Mauritania is the 16^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.
2. The average Total No. of Pharmacists of the countries in the world is 28,678. Mauritania is the 28^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Mauritania is the 47^th worst ranked in Formal Jobs . This may indicate that the country is not highly urbanised or indicate that the unemployment rate is high compared to other countries

Mauritania Metrics

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Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Soninke	# People	5,328	4	1127
2	Soninke as a % of total Soninke speakers	% People	0	4	1130
3	French	# People	596,219	12	1130
4	Fula as a % of total Fula speakers	% People	0	13	1128
5	Arabic as a % of total Arabic speakers	% People	0	15	1129
6	Arabic	# People	1,760,925	17	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Fula	# People	188,175	16	1234
2	Berber	# People	116,117	6	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	17	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	1	52	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	21	1128
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	42	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	153	1232
2	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	126	1234
3	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	124	1230
4	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	124	1232
5	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	95	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	52	1128
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	52	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	174	1230
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	155	1233
3	Formal Jobs	# People	20,455,444	150	1234
4	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	145	1230
5	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	28,805,473	141	1235
6	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	139	1233
7	Employment in Services	# People	19,494,546	139	1231
8	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	128	1235
9	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	106	1230
10	Employment in Agriculture	# People	10,466,926	106	1233
11	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	106	1231
12	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	104	1232
13	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	83	1235
14	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	36	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		45	54	1129
2	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		52	61	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	155	1231
2	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	1	132	1233
3	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	10,566	149	1232
4	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	145	1235
5	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	25,265	129	1232
6	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	117	1235
7	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	123	1234
8	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	110	1233
9	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	120	1230
10	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	81	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	88	1130
2	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	15	24	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	172	1235
2	# Cities>100000	# Cities	42	133	1234
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1233
4	# Cities>300000	# Cities	14	87	1230
5	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	123	1231
6	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1231
7	# Cities>500000	# Cities	8	66	1233
8	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	121	1235
9	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	114	1230
10	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1235
11	Rural Pop.	# People	36,027,518	106	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	180	1230
2	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	158	1230
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	143	1233
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	143	1232
5	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	140	1232
6	Total Literate Pop.	# People	68,251,097	139	1235
7	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	130	1235
8	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	129	1230
9	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	126	1235
10	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	114	1231
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	109	1235
12	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	107	1231
13	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	99	1233
14	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	39	1235
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	29	1233
16	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	21	1230
17	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	17	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	179	1232
2	Tree density .	Density	828	151	1234
3	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	132	1232
4	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	147	1231
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	146	1230
6	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	137	1230
7	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	1	110	1232
8	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	115	1231
9	Wheat prod.	Weight	6,681,335	104	1234
10	Barley prod.	Weight	1,558,004	91	1235
11	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	66	1235
12	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Weight	833,178	73	1231
13	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	1	53	1231
14	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	52	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	28,678	169	1232
2	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	153	1233
3	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	35	136	1235
4	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	128	1234
5	Total No. of Doctors	# People	118,384	61	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	156	1232
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	54	141	1231
3	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	67	131	1233
4	Facebook users	# People	16,391,045	127	1231
5	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	120	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	110	1232
2	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	51	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	123	1230
2	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	116	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	1	113	1231
2	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	121	1231
3	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	1	100	1231
4	Total Military Force	# People	353,432	112	1233
5	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	85	1231
6	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	129	37	1230

Mauritania Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Arabic	72.79 %
2	French	15.29 %
3	Soninke	2.84 %
4	Fula	1.26 %
5	Berber	1.26 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Nouadhibou	152,592
2	Nouakchott	1,237,262