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Mauritania

  • President:Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
  • Prime Minister:Yahya Ould Hademine
  • Capital city:Nouakchott
  • Languages:Arabic (official and national), Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof (all national languages), French note: the spoken Arabic in Mauritania differs considerably from the modern standard Arabic used for official written purposes or in the media; the Mauritanian dialect, which incorporates many Berber words, is referred to as Hassaniya
  • Government:No data
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:4,420,184 (2017)
  • Area, sq km:1,030,700 (2017)
  • GDP per capita, US$:1,137 (2017)
  • GDP, billion current US$:5.0 (2017)
  • GINI index:32.6 (2014)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:150 (2017)

All datasets: F M P
  • F
    • July 2015
      Source: African Development Bank Group
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 06 August, 2015
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      The AfDB Statistics Department and the Fragile States Unit have compiled this data set from various sources (the World Bank, WHO, IMF, and many others)
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  • P
    • January 2016
      Source: World Bank
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 14 April, 2016
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      This dataset provides population and other demographic estimates and projections from 1960 to 2050. They are disaggregated by age-group and gender and cover approximately 200 economies.
    • March 2017
      Source: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 02 August, 2017
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      This dataset covers the topics of Urban population and proportion of urban population living in slum area across countries & regions for the year of 1990-2014
    • July 2017
      Source: Office of National Statistics, Mauritania
      Uploaded by: Balaji S
      Accessed On: 03 January, 2018
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      The data on number of population by gender and regions of Mauritania from "Statistics Yearbook 2016". Provided by National Statistics Office of Mauritania.

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