Sub-Saharan Africa · capital Nouakchott
Mauritania
#125 by population · Lower middle income · ISO MRT
Population right now
5,491,236
413.7 net per day · 1 birth every 174.5 s
·anchor 5,315,065 on 1 Jul 2025
·0.066% of the world
👶 Births today
436
0% of the way to the next birth · 0 while you've been here
⚰️ Deaths today
69
0% of the way to the next death · 0 while you've been here
🧳 Net migration / yr
−1,009
5-yr avg from 2025
📈 Net growth / day
+364
2.84% per year, from births − deaths + migration
Profile
Birth rate
34.03 /1,000
2024
Death rate
5.41 /1,000
2024
Fertility
4.62 births/woman
Life expectancy
68.7 yrs
Aged 0–14
42.4%
Aged 65+
3.2%
Urban
61.5%
Land area
1,030,700 km²
Density
5.2 /km²
GDP / capita
$2,198
2025
Trend
Population 2015–2025
Same region
Largest neighbours
How these numbers are made. Nobody counts people in real time.
Each figure is recomputed every frame from a World Bank anchor and rate:
pop(now) = 5,315,065 + 0.0048/s × elapsed since 1 Jul 2025
births/day = 495 (crude birth rate 34.03/1,000, 2024)
deaths/day = 79 (crude death rate 5.41/1,000, 2024)
Births and deaths are estimates for a hypothetical average day; they do not reflect
seasonality, and the migration figure is a 5-year average. World Bank's separately
published growth rate is 2.78%/yr; the rate shown above is derived
from the components so it always agrees with the counter. Full method →