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Mauritania

  • President:Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
  • Prime Minister:Mokhtar Ould Djay
  • Capital city:Nouakchott
  • Languages:Arabic (official and national), Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof (all national languages), French note: the spoken Arabic in Mauritania differs considerably from the modern standard Arabic used for official written purposes or in the media; the Mauritanian dialect, which incorporates many Berber words, is referred to as Hassaniya
  • Government:No data
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:5,242,270 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:1,030,700
  • GDP per capita, US$:2,083 (2024)
  • GDP, billion current US$:10.8 (2024)
  • GINI index:32.0 (2019)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:152

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    • Fragile States Index-FSI
      November 2025
      Source: Fund for Peace
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 05 November, 2025
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      Data cited at: Fragile States Index - https://fragilestatesindex.org/ The FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by our CAST Software from electronically available sources. Measures of fragility, like Demographic Pressures,Refugees and IDPs and etc., have been scaled on 0 to 10 where 10 is highest fragility and 0 no fragility.
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    • Global Peace Index (GPI)
      June 2024
      Source: Institute for Economics and Peace
      Uploaded by: Alex Kulikov
      Accessed On: 20 June, 2024
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      Data cited at: Institute for Economics and Peace retrieved from Vision of Humanity  The Global Peace Index 2022