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Mauritania: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1977–2019 · 5 observations · unemp

2019
10.4%percent
Record high and low
25.8% (1988)low 9.86% (2012)

Unemployment rate

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5%10%15%20%25%30%1980199020002010MauritaniaMauritania, 1977: 14.1%Mauritania, 1988: 25.8%Mauritania
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
201910.4
201710.3
20129.86
198825.8
197714.1

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1977–2019
  • African Development Bank2012
  • International Labour Organization2012–2019

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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