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.