Mauritania: Poverty at 1.90 USD per day

The latest value from 2019 is 10.2 percent, a decline from 11.7 percent in 2014. In comparison, the world average is 5.72 percent, based on data from 76 countries. Historically, the average for Mauritania from 1987 to 2019 is 29.61 percent. The minimum value, 10.2 percent, was reached in 2019 while the maximum of 54.1 percent was recorded in 1993. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.

Definition: Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.