Current account balance in Mauritania

The current account balance of Mauritania was -9.6% of GDP in 2024.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1975 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Mauritania, 2024 -9.6% % of GDP
Change from 2023 −0.5percentage points 2023: -9.0%
Position in 2024 148th of 168 See the full ranking

Current account balance in Mauritania over time

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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Current account balance (World Bank) (% of GDP), 2012 to 2024
Period Mauritania
2024 -9.6%
2023 -9.0%
2022 -14.9%
2021 -8.8%
2020 -7.0%
2019 -10.5%
2018 -13.0%
2017 -10.4%
2016 -11.0%
2015 -15.5%
2014 -22.3%
2013 -17.5%
2012 -18.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.5 percentage points from -9.0% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was -22.3%, the figure has changed by +12.7 percentage points.
  • Among the 168 countries with data for 2024, Mauritania has the 148th highest value.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1975 to 2024 for Mauritania
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics