Indicators of economy in Mauritania

The essential economic performance of a country is reflected by the gross domestic product. So the total of all goods and services sold. Worldwide gross domestic product in 2019 was at about 11.429 US Dollar per capita. In contrast, the GDP in Mauritania reached 1.679 US dollars per inhabitant, or 7.60 bn US Dollar in the whole country. Mauritania is one of the smaller economies and is currently ranked 149. If this is calculated per inhabitant taking into account the purchasing power parity, then Mauritania is in the list of the world's richest countries in place 138.

Inflation in Mauritania was in 2019 at around 2.30%. For the the EU, the average of the same was year at 1.63%.

The Corruption Perceptions Index for the public sector counts 29 and is compared to other countries very bad.


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