Mauritania poverty rate for 2019 was 71.20%, a 1.2% increase from 2014.
Mauritania poverty rate for 2014 was 70.00%, a 4.1% decline from 2008.
Mauritania poverty rate for 2008 was 74.10%, a 10.3% decline from 2004.
Mauritania poverty rate for 2004 was 84.40%, a 1.6% increase from 2000.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Mauritania Poverty Rate | Historical Data | 1987 - 2019.