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Mauritania

5,315,065

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+145.67K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+103.4%from 2.61M
Life expectancy68.7 years2024
Fertility rate4.63births per woman · 2024
Urban population61.5%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Mauritania is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1442.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6454.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate34.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+28.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-5.04Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Mauritania look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.42M in 2050—82.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.17M
  2. 20509.42M
  3. 210017.12M
Median age in 205022.3years
Births in 2050230.88Kduring the year
Deaths in 205043.35Kduring the year
Life expectancy73.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960824.3K
  2. 19701.1M
  3. 19801.47M
  4. 19901.95M
  5. 20002.61M
  6. 20103.39M
  7. 20204.6M
  8. 20255.32M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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