Mauritania GDP Data & Country Report

Mauritania Country Report: GDP data and GDP forecasts; economic, financial and trade information; the best banks in Mauritania; country and population overview

DATA ON GDP AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

Central bank

N/A

International Reserves

US$ 287.852 million (Source: World Bank; Data updated: November 2010)

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

US$ 4.402 billion (2009 estimate)

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

7.075 billion of International dollars (2009 estimate)

Real GDP growth

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
1.9%	2.9%	1.1%	5.6%	5.2%	5.4%	11.4%	1%
2008	2009	2010	2011*
3.7%	-1.2%	4.7%	5.2%

*Estimate

GDP per capita - current prices

US$ 1,352 (2009 estimate)

GDP per capita - PPP

$2,173 International Dollars (2009 estimate)

GDP (PPP) - share of world total

1980	1990	2000	2010	2015**
0.01%	0.01%	0.01%	0.01%	0.01%

**Forecast

GDP - composition by sector

agriculture: 19.2%
industry: 36.6%
services: 44.1% (2011 estimate)

(Data released on February 2012)

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (% of GDP)

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Inflation

2008	2009	2010	2011*
7.3%(2008)	2.2%	6.1%	7.3%

*Estimate

Unemployment rate

2008	2009	2010	2011*
N/A	N/A	N/A(2009)	N/A

*Estimate

Household saving rates

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010	2011*
96.9%	90.4%	111.4%	85.6%	51.3%

*Estimate

Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010*	2011**
-3.9%	-7.3%	-5.9%	-7.4%	-4.9%

*Estimate **Forecast

Government bond ratings

Standard & Poor's: N/A

Moody's rating: N/A

Moody's outlook: N/A

(Foreign Currency Government Bond Ratings; Data last updated Nov 2010)

Market value of publicly traded shares

2007	2008	2009
N/A	N/A	N/A

Largest companies in Mauritania

N/A

DATA ON TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS

Current account balance

US$ -0.3 billion (2009 estimate)(After 2008)

Current account balance by percentage of GDP

-6.9% of GDP (2009 estimate)(2009)

Exports as percent of GDP

(Exports of goods and services)

57.7% (2007)

(Data released on December 2010)

Shares in world total merchandising export

0.01%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Shares in world total commercial services export

0%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Total exports

N/A

Export commodities

iron ore, fish and fish products, gold, copper, petroleum

Total imports

US$1.475 billion f.o.b. (2006)

Import commodities

machinery and equipment, petroleum products, capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods

Exports - major partners

China 30.5%, France 9.5%, Italy 8.5%, Spain 8.5%, Japan 5.5%, Netherlands 5.3%, Belgium 5%, Cote d'Ivoire 4.7% (2007)

Imports - major partners

France 16.5%, China 8.1%, Spain 6.7%, US 6.1%, Belgium 5.8%, Brazil 5.7% (2007)

FDI inflows

2008	2009	2010
US$338 million	US$-38 million(2009)	US$14 million(2009)

FDI outflows

2008	2009	2010
US$4 million	US$4 million	US$4 million

Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser

2008	2009	2010	2011
N/A	N/A(2009)	N/A(2009)	N/A

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2008

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2010

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A(2008 estimate)

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Best countries for doing business

World Bank/IFC Doing Business Project

(Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 183. A high ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.)

Overall ranking: 165 out of 183 countries(2009) (2010)

Subcategories:

Starting a business: 152 out of 183 countries(2009)

Registering property: 73 out of 183 countries

Paying Taxes: 172 out of 183 countries

Getting credit: 152 out of 183 countries

Protecting investors: 147 out of 183 countries

Trading across border: 163 out of 183 countries

Enforcing Contracts: 83 out of 183 countries

(2010)

Global competitiveness ranking
(ranking by country on a basis of 142, the first is the best)

137

(2011/2012)

Index of Economic Freedom

WSJ and Heritage Foundation

Ranking: 134 Score: 52.1 (Mostly Unfree) (2009)

(100=totally free 0=totally repressed )

COUNTRY AND POPULATION OVERVIEW

Time zone

UTC 0

Total area

1,025,520 km² (2006)

Capital

Nouakchott (2009)

Currency

ouguiyas (MRO) (2009)

Government type

military junta (2009)

Languages

Arabic (official and national), Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof (all national languages), French, Hassaniya

Religions

Muslim 100%

Total population

1980	1990	2000	2010*	2015**
1.55 million	1.96 million	2.51 million	3.18 million	3.5 million

*Estimate **Forecast

Urban population as % of total population

1960	1980	2000	2009
6.9%	27.4%	40%	41.2%

Population median age

20.0 years (2006)

Population growth rate

2.3% (2009)

Life expectancy

64 years (2007)

Adult literacy

56% (2000/2007)

% of population living on less than $2 a day

44.13% (2011)

Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index)

39 (2000)

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)

Freedom House rating

Political Rights:6
Civil Liberties:5 (2010)

(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free)

Total telephone subscribers as % of population

81.41% (2010)

(sum of fixed telephone lines and mobile cellular subscribers)

Internet users as % of total population

3% (Data were released in 2011 and refer to 2010)

Cost of living index

(ranking by city on a basis of 214; the 1st is the most expensive and the 214th is the least expensive)

Nouakchott: 205th (2011)

CO2 emissions
(Metric tons of CO2 per capita)

0.6218 (2008)

GLOBAL FINANCE RANKINGS AND AWARDS

ARTICLES AND COUNTRIES REPORTS FROM GLOBAL FINANCE ARCHIVE

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