Primary completion (UIS) in Mauritania

Name: Primary completion (UIS) in Mauritania
Creator: UNESCO UIS
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In Mauritania, 57.9% of children had completed primary school by the expected age in 2015.

Completion rate, primary education % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age Data: 2007 to 2015 Source: UNESCO UIS

The latest value for Mauritania is for 2015. Most countries have figures for 2019.

Mauritania, 2015 57.9% % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age

Change from 2011 +14.0percentage points 2011: 43.9%

Primary completion (UIS) in Mauritania over time

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% of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Completion rate, primary education (% of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age), 2007 to 2015
Period	Mauritania
2015	57.9%
2011	43.9%
2007	38.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

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In short

The previous available figure was 43.9% in 2011, a change of +14.0 percentage points.
Since 2007, when it was 38.3%, the figure has changed by +19.6 percentage points.

More for Mauritania

All statistics for Mauritania

Lower secondary completion 37.1% 2015 · UNESCO UIS Primary school completion rate 73.4% 2020 · World Bank ILO estimate of the youth NEET rate 36.7% 2025 · ILOSTAT Upper secondary completion 15.1% 2015 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school children 11.3% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school adolescents 30.3% 2024 · UNESCO UIS

Source and dates

Original producer: UNESCO UIS
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Dataset or series code: CR.1 · dataset details · view at source
Observation period: 2007 to 2015 for Mauritania
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org

Mauritania by sex

Total 57.9%2015
Girls 53.2%2015
Boys 63.6%2015

Each group's most recent published value. Open a group to see its trend.

What this measures

Share of children aged 3 to 5 years older than the official age for the last grade of primary school who have completed primary education, mostly measured in household surveys (SDG indicator 4.1.2).

Survey years differ between countries; check the year shown for each value.
This survey-based rate differs from the World Bank's primary completion rate, which compares new entrants to the last grade with the population of that age.

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