Mali vs Mauritania: Government debt

Government debt in 2025: 40.3% of GDP in Mali and 40.4% of GDP in Mauritania, by IMF estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Mauritania, by 0.1 percentage points, or 1 times that in Mali.

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% of GDP · IMF

MaliMauritaniaIMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026)

What the numbers say

Mauritania has been higher since 2005, when it overtook Mali.
In 2025, Mali ranked 105 and Mauritania ranked 103 of 149 countries, counting from the highest.
The IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) puts Mali at 39.8% of GDP and Mauritania at 39.9% of GDP in 2031.

Every year

% of GDP · IMF

Year	Mali	Mauritania
2025	40.3	40.4
2024	44	45.2
2023	44.2	48.6
2022	43	50.1
2021	43.2	54.5
2020	39.9	56.5
2019	34.3	57.7
2018	31.4	59.2
2017	30.2	55.7
2016	30.1	57.6
2015	25.8	59.9
2014	22.6	49.5
2013	22.2	40.7
2012	21.3	39.3
2011	20.1	38.8
2010	21.8	44
2009	18.8	54.3
2008	17.3	57.2
2007	15.6	61.5
2006	15.4	38
2005	39.5	71.1
2004	36.1	22
2003	37.7	22.9
2002	36	59.5
2001	66.3	63.5
2000	77	55.5

IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) · 2026–2031

Year	Mali	Mauritania
2026	39.7	38.3
2027	39	38.5
2028	38.9	38.2
2029	39.1	38.3
2030	39.4	39.1
2031	39.8	39.9

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What the government owes, as a share of the economy’s yearly output.
Source: IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026.
The dashed line is the IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026), a scenario rather than a forecast.
Ranks count the 149 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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