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Least Developed Country Category: Mauritania Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Mauritania Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1986

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP reports:
ECOSOC resolutions: E/DEC/1986/103, E/DEC/1986/153
GA resolution:

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,797

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

64.5

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 39.2 stat Value: 41.4
Index: 82.3 Index: 34.9
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 22.1 stat Value: 67.0
Index: 60.8 Index: 55.9
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 464 stat Value: 0.9
Index: 61.6 Index: 91.2
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

52.9

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 20.6 stat Value: 21.0
Index: 33.2 Index: 60.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 41.7 stat Value: 93.0
Index: 39.7 Index: 93.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.9 stat Value: 2.6
Index: 65.3 Index: 6.1
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 14.7 stat Value: 12.04
Index: 29.5 Index: 96.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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