Mauritania: Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Australia (current US$)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 100% from US$70,000 in 2013 (89.26% a year on average, compounded). Since 1977 it is down 99.99% from US$20,000 in 1977 (21.46% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 28 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2018, Mauritania's net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Australia (current US$) fell 100% on 2017 (from US$105,755 to US$1).

Across the 8 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2017), the average change was +266.2% and a typical year strayed about 517% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below 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 1,389.7% in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 100% in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2011 to 2018 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 22% of the movement over 8 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

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Closest to Mauritania in the 2018 ranking

• Kazakhstan — 1st of 2: US$18,047

What this measures

Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors are the net disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) or official aid from the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Net disbursements are gross disbursements of grants and loans minus repayments of principal on earlier loans. ODA consists of loans made on concessional terms (with a grant element of at least 25 percent, calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent) and grants made to promote economic development and welfare in countries and territories in the DAC list of ODA recipients. Official aid refers to aid flows from official donors to countries and territories in part II of the DAC list of recipients: more advanced countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and certain advanced developing countries and territories. Official aid is provided under terms and conditions similar to those for ODA. Part II of the DAC List was abolished in 2005. The collection of data on official aid and other resource flows to Part II countries ended with 2004 data.

Limitations: Data exclude DAC members’ multilateral aid (contributions to the regular budgets of the multilateral institutions). However, projects executed by multilateral institutions or nongovernmental organizations on behalf of DAC members are classified as bilateral aid (since the donor country effectively controls the use of the funds) and are included in the data. Aid to unspecified economies is included in regional totals and, when possible, income group totals. Aid not allocated by country or region - including administrative costs, research on development, and aid to nongovernmental organizations - is included in the world total.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.

All 14 values

Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Australia (current US$) in nearby economies

• Angola — US$14,634 (2023)
• Benin — US$560,772 (2023)
• Botswana — US$117,058 (2023)
• Burkina Faso — US$381,829 (2023)
• Burundi — US$1.55 million (2023)
• Cabo Verde — US$39,247 (2023)
• Cameroon — US$5,255 (2023)
• Central African Republic — US$11,443 (2023)
• Chad

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$13.35 billion (2025)
• Gross national expenditure (current LCU) — 531.28 billion (2025)
• Gross national expenditure (% of GDP) — 114.32% (2025)
• Exports of goods and services (current US$) — US$4.65 billion (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Mauritania's net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Australia (current US$)?

US$1 in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1977?

It is down 99.99% from US$20,000 in 1977 (21.46% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$580,000 in 2012 and the lowest US$1 in 2018.

Is the latest change in net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Australia (current US$) unusual for Mauritania?

In 2018, Mauritania's net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Australia (current US$) fell 100% on 2017 (from US$105,755 to US$1). Across the 8 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2017), the average change was +266.2% and a typical year strayed about 517% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below 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 DC.DAC.AUSL.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), uri: https://stats.oecd.org/; Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), uri: https://stats.oecd.org/; Developmen… 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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