Mauritania (MR) is covered on EconEarth’s interactive globe with economy, market, and country data drawn from the same dataset used in the live app.
An Atlantic economy of iron ore, fish and a new gas story on the border with Senegal. Nouakchott is a commercial city on the edge of the Sahara. Slavery's legacy and a thin private sector still shape who earns.
Region: Africa. Population: 4.9M (rank #128). GDP per capita: $3,033 (2026, IMF). GDP growth: 0%. Inflation: 0%. Currency: MRU.