Mauritania
Islamic Republic of Mauritania
- Capital
- Nouakchott
- Region
- Western Africa
- Population, 2025
- 5.3 million
- Currency
- MRU
- Area
- 1,030,700 km²
Across Mauritania's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $737 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $567.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%52
- Safety20%96
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%27
- Connectivity10%30
- Cost10%88
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 40%
- SourcePwC
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 16%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 1%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 15%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Property tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2020
- 1.0
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #104 worldwide
- 60
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +59%
Cities in Mauritania
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Nouakchott | 57 | 34.7 | $217 | $567 | 88.0 | 1.2M | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 2Nouadhibou | 46 | — | — | — | — | 146K | Low confidence |