Mauritania's gross national expenditure (% of GDP) was 114.32% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 2.64 percentage points from 116.96% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 114.32% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 103.96% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 116.96% | 2015 |
| Highest | 135.83% | 1977 |
| Lowest | 7.06% | 1965 |
| Average since 2016 | 111.48% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 24.73% | 1961 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Mauritania's gross national expenditure (% of GDP) rose 3.54 percentage points on 2024 (from 110.78% to 114.32%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.64 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.73 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 70.75 percentage points in 1966 and the biggest yearly fall was 36.67 percentage points in 2006. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 19% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Mauritania had the 21st highest value of the 130 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
Closest to Mauritania in the 2025 ranking
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 18th of 130: 118.4%
- Guatemala — 19th of 130: 115.41%
- Tunisia — 20th of 130: 114.75%
- Mozambique — 22nd of 130: 114.32%
- Central African Republic — 23rd of 130: 114.22%
- North Macedonia — 24th of 130: 113.74%
What this measures
Gross national expenditure is the sum of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, and gross capital formation. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
All 65 values
| Year | Gross national expenditure (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 114.32 |
| 2024 | 110.78 |
| 2023 | 115.35 |
| 2022 | 122.55 |
| 2021 | 108.59 |
| 2020 | 103.96 |
| 2019 | 108.18 |
| 2018 | 115.96 |
| 2017 | 109.79 |
| 2016 | 105.3 |
| 2015 |
Gross national expenditure (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 88.09% (2024)
- Benin — 103.01% (2025)
- Botswana — 106.41% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 95.02% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 111.38% (2025)
- Cameroon — 106.3% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 114.22% (2025)
- Chad — 87.3% (2025)
- Comoros — 122.29% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 100.33% (2025)
- Congo, Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for Mauritania
- Changes in inventories (current US$) — US$2.03 billion (2025)
- Changes in inventories (current LCU) — 80.64 billion (2025)
- Final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$8.17 billion (2025)
- Final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 325.27 billion (2025)
- Final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 69.99% (2025)
- Gross national expenditure (current US$) — US$13.35 billion (2025)
- Gross national expenditure (current LCU) — 531.28 billion (2025)
- Exports of goods and services (current US$) — US$4.65 billion (2025)
- Exports of goods and services (current LCU) — 185.21 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Mauritania's gross national expenditure (% of GDP)?
- 114.32% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is up 89.59 percentage points from 24.73% in 1961. The highest value was 135.83% in 1977 and the lowest 7.06% in 1965.
- How does Mauritania rank?
- 21st highest of 130 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in gross national expenditure (% of GDP) unusual for Mauritania?
- In 2025, Mauritania's gross national expenditure (% of GDP) rose 3.54 percentage points on 2024 (from 110.78% to 114.32%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.64 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.73 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.DAB.TOTL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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