Country comparison: France / Mauritania

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for France and Mauritania. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	France	Mauritania
Region:	Western Europe	Western Africa
Area:	549,087 km²	1,030,700 km²
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Paris	Nouakchott

Population

Details for France and Mauritania

	France	Mauritania
Population:	67,750,000	4,615,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	4.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 63 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 66 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 21.0 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	33.43 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.47 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.72 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	France	Mauritania
Political stability:	74	46
Civil rights:	85	25
Health:	92	21
Climate:	41	52
Cost of Living:	30	18
Popularity:	71	62

Economy

Details for France and Mauritania

	France	Mauritania
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Mauritanian ouguiya (1 MRO =5 Khoums)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	11.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	3.57 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	67.00 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	1,950 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	70 (very bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	9,996 M US$	2.17 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	9,021 M US$	1.95 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	3,180 M US$	0.69 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	4,312 M US$	0.93 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Mauritania

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	12,253 km	2.66 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	728 km	0.16 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	5	0.0011
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	2	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for France and Mauritania

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	1.06 bn kWh	229,470.42 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	1.14 bn kWh	246,805.29 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	3.95 m t	855.91 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Mauritania

	France	Mauritania
International dialing:	+33	+222
Internet domain:	.fr	.mr

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	MRT total	MRT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	58,094	13
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	6,512,361	1411
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	22	0
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	1,882,909	408
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	19,219	4

Healthcare system

Details for France and Mauritania

	France	Mauritania
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	0.40
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.18
Diabetes:	4.8 %	7.1 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.81 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	10.7 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: France and Mauritania

	France	Mauritania
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	35.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	22.1 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	21.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	45 %
Rain days:	8.9	1.7
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	8.8

Native languages

	France	Mauritania
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Hassaniya:	n/a	81.7 %
Wolof:	n/a	6.6 %
Tukulor:	n/a	5.4 %
Soninke:	n/a	2.7 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Fula:	n/a	1.2 %
Zenaga:	n/a	1.2 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	1.2 %

Religions

	France	Mauritania
Islam:	8.0 %	100.0 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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