
Mauritania
General information
Capital: Nouakchott
Currency unit: Mauritanian ouguiya
Official language: Arabic
Area: 1,030,700 km²
Population in million: 4.4
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 1,137
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 3,950
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 49.4
Annual growth rate of the population: 2.7 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 53.3 %
Life expectancy at birth: 63.2 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 52 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 5.02
Agriculture value added of GDP: 22.9
Industry value added of GDP: 28.7
Services value added of GDP: 35.4
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 2.76
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 3.51
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Cartons, boxes, cases, bags and other packing containers of paper (0.07 %)
Tubes and pipes, seamless, of iron or steel (0.00 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Frozen fish (12.09 %)
Molluscs (8.07 %)
Fresh or chilled fish (1.82 %)
Animal meals, unfit for human consumption (1.46 %)
Fats and oils (0.29 %)