Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF0107, rev
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
2.75%
+0.5 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
40.4%
of GDP · -15 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
5.3m
129.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Mauritania yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 0.5% to 1.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 2.3% to 4.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2001, then fell to 2.7% by 2025.
Education rose from 1.6% to 7.6% of GDP between 1997 and 2024.
Gross debt fell from 55.5% to 22.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2004, then rose to 40.4% by 2025.
Population grew from 2.3 million in 1995 to 5.3 million in 2025; the UN projects 9.4 million by 2050.