Mauritania's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) was 1.5% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 11.6 percentage points from 13.1% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.5% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 5.43% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 13.1% | 2014 |
| Highest | 60.86% | 1997 |
| Lowest | 1.23% | 2023 |
| Average since 2015 | 5.47% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 31.36% | 1975 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Mauritania's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.27 percentage points on 2023 (from 1.23% to 1.5%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1980 to 2023), the average change was +0.52 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.43 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 20.64 percentage points in 1996 and the biggest yearly fall was 13.47 percentage points in 1977. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1.33 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 70% 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 2024, Mauritania had the 29th highest value of the 29 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 | 1.5% | 2024 |
| World | 19.75% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 37.15% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 15.98% | 2025 |
Closest to Mauritania in the 2024 ranking
- Guinea — 25th of 29: 6.97%
- Djibouti — 26th of 29: 4.42%
- Naoero — 27th of 29: 1.53%
- Papua New Guinea — 29th of 29: 1.06%
What this measures
Travel services cover goods and services for own use or to give away acquired from an economy by nonresidents during visits to that economy, or acquired from other economies by residents during visits to these other economies. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service exports which are services provided by residents to non-residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 37 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 1.23 |
| 2022 | 3.37 |
| 2021 | 1.32 |
| 2020 | 2.86 |
| 2019 | 5.43 |
| 2018 | 2.55 |
| 2017 | 13.45 |
| 2016 | 11.26 |
| 2015 | 11.76 |
| 2014 |
Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 13.7% (2025)
- Benin — 54.43% (2023)
- Botswana — 55.17% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 20.08% (2024)
- Burundi — 2.18% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 78.29% (2025)
- Cameroon — 12.51% (2024)
- Comoros — 72.9% (2023)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 51.49% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — 3.14% (2021)
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 travel services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 1.5% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1975?
- It is down 29.86 percentage points from 31.36% in 1975. The highest value was 60.86% in 1997 and the lowest 1.23% in 2023.
- How does Mauritania rank?
- 29th highest of 29 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Mauritania?
- In 2024, Mauritania's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.27 percentage points on 2023 (from 1.23% to 1.5%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1980 to 2023), the average change was +0.52 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.43 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 BX.GSR.TRVL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) 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.
Want to ask your own questions of data like this? Try AnalyzeIt: upload a file or ask about public data in plain words, and every figure comes with its working.
Legal entity
Devansh Yadav
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Governing law: Courts at Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Phone: +91 8433475698
Legal: legal@analyzeit.in