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$:2,121 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:10.7 (2023)
  • GINI index:32.0 (2019)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:152
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    • October 2010
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 01 December, 2014
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      Data cited at: The World Bank https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/ Topic: Africa's Infrastructure: Airports Publication: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/africas-infrastructure-airports License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) has data collection and analysis on the status of the main network infrastructures. The AICD database provides cross-country data on network infrastructure for nine major sectors: air transport, information and communication technologies, irrigation, ports, power, railways, roads, water and sanitation.