This article is about the demographic features of the

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of Mauritania ( ar, التركيبة السكانية في موريتانيا), including

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, ethnicity, education level,

health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

of the populace,

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status,

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affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Population

According to , the total population was in , compared to only 657 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 39.9%, 57.4% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.7% was 65 years or older.

Structure of the population

Structure of the population (24.03.2013) (Census, complete tabulation) : Population by Age Group (Estimates 1.VII.2016):

Vital statistics

Registration of vital events in Mauritania is incomplete. The Population Departement of the United Nations prepared the following estimates.

Fertility and Births

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR): Fertility data as of 2010 (DHS Program):

Life expectancy

Other demographic statistics

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022. *One birth every 3 minutes *One death every 16 minutes *One net migrant every 120 minutes *Net gain of one person every 4 minutes The following demographic are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise indicated.

Population

:4,161,925 (2022 est.) :3,840,429 (July 2018 est.) :3,381,634 (June 2011 est.)

Religions

Muslim (official) 100%

Age structure

Mauritania single age population pyramid 2020

:''0-14 years:'' 37.56% (male 755,788/female 748,671) :''15-24 years:'' 19.71% (male 387,140/female 402,462) :''25-54 years:'' 33.91% (male 630,693/female 727,518) :''55-64 years:'' 4.9% (male 88,888/female 107,201) :''65 years and over:'' 3.92% (2020 est.) (male 66,407/female 90,707) :''0-14 years:'' 38.24% (male 737,570 /female 730,969) :''15-24 years:'' 19.78% (male 372,070 /female 387,375) :''25-54 years:'' 33.44% (male 595,472 /female 688,620) :''55-64 years:'' 4.74% (male 82,197 /female 99,734) :''65 years and over:'' 3.81% (male 62,072 /female 84,350) (2018 est.)

Median age

:total: 21 years. Country comparison to the world: 187th :male: 20.1 years :female: 22 years (2020 est.) :total: 20.7 years. Country comparison to the world: 186th :male: 19.7 years :female: 21.6 years (2018 est.) :total: 19.3 years :male: 18.5 years :female: 20.2 years (2010 est.)

Birth rate

:28.06 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 37th :29.9 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 38th

Death rate

:7.43 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 109th :7.8 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 97th

Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

:3.53 children born/woman (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 38th :3.79 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 39th

Population growth rate

:1.99% (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 41st :2.14% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 41st :2.349% (2011 est.)

Mother's mean age at first birth

:21.4 years (2019-2021) :note: median age at first birth among women 25-29

Contraceptive prevalence rate

:17.8% (2015)

Net migration rate

:-0.72 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 134th :-0.8 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) Country comparison to the world: 132nd

Dependency ratios

:total dependency ratio: 76.5 (2015 est.) :youth dependency ratio: 71 (2015 est.) :elderly dependency ratio: 5.5 (2015 est.) :potential support ratio: 18.3 (2015 est.)

Urbanization

:urban population: 56.9% of total population (2022) :rate of urbanization: 3.84% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) :urban population: 53.7% of total population (2018) :rate of urbanization: 4.28% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

:total population: 65.22 years. Country comparison to the world: 204th :male: 62.77 years :female: 67.75 years (2022 est.) :total population: 63.8 years (2018 est.) :male: 61.4 years (2018 est.) :female: 66.2 years (2018 est.) *total population: 60.75 years *male: 58.57 years *female: 62.99 years (2010 est.)

Major infectious diseases

:degree of risk: very high (2020) :food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever :vectorborne diseases: malaria and dengue fever :animal contact diseases: rabies :respiratory diseases: meningococcal meningitis note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Mauritania is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

Sex ratio

*at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female *under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female *15–64 years: 0.89 male(s)/female *65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female *total population: 0.93 male(s)/female (2010 est.)

Ethnic groups

Fair

Moors The term Moor, derived from the ancient Mauri, is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages. Moors are not a distinct or ...

(bidhanes) 53% or 2.4 million people, dark Moors (haratins) 30%, 17% sub-Saharan Mauritanians (non-Arabic speaking, largely resident in or originating from the Senegal River Valley, including Helpulaar, Fulani, Soninke, Wolof, and Bambara ethnic groups)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS

9,500 (2003 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.)

Nationality

noun: Mauritanian(s) adjective: Mauritanian

Languages

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

(official and national), French (widely used in media and among educated classes),

Pulaar Pulaar (in Adlam: , in Ajami: ) is a Fula language spoken primarily as a first language by the Fula and Toucouleur peoples in the Senegal River valley area traditionally known as Futa Tooro and further south and east. Pulaar speakers, known ...

, Soninke, Wolof, Serer.

Education expenditures

:1.9% of GDP (2020) Country comparison to the world: 179th

Literacy

definition: age 15 and over can read and write :total population: 53.5% :male: 63.7% :female: 43.4% (2017) :total population: 52.1% (2015 est.) :male: 62.6% (2015 est.) :female: 41.6% (2015 est.) :total population: 51.2% :male: 59.5% :female: 43.4% (2000 census)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)

:total: 9 years :male: 9 years :female: 10 years (2019) :total: 8 years (2017) :male: 8 years (2017) :female: 8 years (2017)

Population

Structure of the population

Vital statistics

Fertility and Births

Life expectancy

Other demographic statistics

Population

Religions

Age structure

Median age

Birth rate

Death rate

Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

Population growth rate

Mother's mean age at first birth

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Net migration rate

Dependency ratios

Urbanization

Life expectancy at birth

Major infectious diseases

Sex ratio

Ethnic groups

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS

Nationality

Languages

Education expenditures

Literacy

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)

Unemployment, youth ages 15-24

References

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