Mauritania
Access to electricity in Mauritania
Access to electricity in Mauritania: 19.1% in 2000 and 52.2% in 2024, by World Bank estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- 52.2%
- Since 2000
- +33.1 percentage points
- Rank, 2024
- 198 of 213
- counting from the highest
- World, 2024
- 91.9%
% of people · World Bank
What the numbers say
- The highest was 52.2% in 2024, the lowest 18.2% in 2005.
Every year
% of people · World Bank
| Year | Mauritania | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52.2 | 91.9 |
| 2023 | 50.3 | 91.6 |
| 2022 | 49 | 91.3 |
| 2021 | 47.7 | 91.3 |
| 2020 | 45.4 | 90.4 |
| 2019 | 44.9 | 90.1 |
| 2018 | 43.6 | 89.8 |
| 2017 | 42.9 | 88.9 |
| 2016 | 41.2 | 88.1 |
| 2015 | 39.5 | 86.9 |
| 2014 | 38.8 | 86.2 |
| 2013 | 37.6 | 85.7 |
| 2012 | 36.4 | 84.9 |
| 2011 | 35.3 | 84.5 |
| 2010 | 34.2 | 83.5 |
| 2009 | 31.1 | 82.9 |
| 2008 | 30 | 82.7 |
| 2007 | 33 | 82 |
| 2006 | 27 | 81.4 |
| 2005 | 18.2 | 80.7 |
| 2004 | 24.3 | 80 |
| 2003 | 23 | 80 |
| 2002 | 21.7 | 79.1 |
| 2001 | 22.2 | 78.7 |
| 2000 | 19.1 | 78.2 |
| 1999 | – | 74.5 |
| 1998 | – | 73.2 |
Good to know
- The share of people with access to electricity, from national surveys and the power industry.
- Source: Tracking SDG 7 (World Bank ESMAP), via the World Bank.
- Ranks count the 213 countries with a value in 2024, highest first.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Mauritania in numbers
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Military
- Military spending2.75% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$315M in 2025
- Military spending per person$61 in 2025
- Military share of state spending10.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel21,000 people in 2020
- National power0.03% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports126 million TIV in 2024