Mauritania's trade (% of GDP) was 94.02% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 16.68 percentage points from 77.35% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 94.02% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 86.78% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 77.35% | 2015 |
| Highest | 110.79% | 2012 |
| Lowest | 30.05% | 1961 |
| Average since 2016 | 89.15% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 30.05% | 1961 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Mauritania's trade (% of GDP) rose 0.43 percentage points on 2024 (from 93.6% to 94.02%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +1.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.15 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 23.33 percentage points in 1972 and the biggest yearly fall was 22.31 percentage points in 1991. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.02 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 56% of the movement over 10 observed years.
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 53rd highest value of the 137 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 94.02% | 2025 |
| World | 68.49% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 55.68% | 2024 |
| Lower middle income | 46.57% | 2025 |
Closest to Mauritania in the 2025 ranking
- Nicaragua — 49th of 137: 96.45%
- Cabo Verde — 50th of 137: 95.33%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 51st of 137: 95.12%
- Morocco — 53rd of 137: 93.1%
- Micronesia, Fed. Sts. — 54th of 137: 93.07%
- Moldova — 55th of 137: 92.67%
What this measures
Trade is the sum of exports and imports of goods and services. 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.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 65 values
| Year | Trade (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 94.02 |
| 2024 | 93.6 |
| 2023 | 92.17 |
| 2022 | 102.03 |
| 2021 | 88.31 |
| 2020 | 86.78 |
| 2019 | 93.49 |
| 2018 | 89.15 |
| 2017 | 78.81 |
| 2016 | 73.15 |
| 2015 | 77.35 |
Trade (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 34.65% (2025)
- Benin — 37.12% (2025)
- Botswana — 69.54% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 65% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 95.33% (2025)
- Cameroon — 33.38% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 52.91% (2025)
- Chad — 46.13% (2025)
- Comoros — 40.89% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 87.33% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — 91.67% (2025)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 54.56% (2025)
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)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Mauritania's trade (% of GDP)?
- 94.02% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is up 63.98 percentage points from 30.05% in 1961. The highest value was 110.79% in 2012 and the lowest 30.05% in 1961.
- How does Mauritania rank?
- 53rd highest of 137 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in trade (% of GDP) unusual for Mauritania?
- In 2025, Mauritania's trade (% of GDP) rose 0.43 percentage points on 2024 (from 93.6% to 94.02%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +1.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.15 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 NE.TRD.GNFS.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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