Mauritania

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
4,540,068 1
Urban
53.70% 1
Rural
46.30% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
3.4% 2
Homicides
10.22 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
142 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
129 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
4.54 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
8.50% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
63 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
45.50% 6
Internet Users
11% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$1,270 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
10.9% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
4,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.10
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
68
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
14
First Communions per Year
39
Confirmations per Year
23
Church Marriages per Year
6
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
5
Priests
11
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
34
Catholics per Priest
373
Parishes
5
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
1