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Country outlook · Northern Africa

Mauritania

Three scenarios, two horizons. The range is the finding — a single number would imply knowledge nobody has.

Measure	Latest observed	2031	2036
Output per person	$2,198 2025	$2,116 – $2,615	$2,050 – $3,022
Electricity access	52% 2024	57% – 63%	61% – 69%
Internet use	46% 2024	56% – 67%	63% – 77%

Growth bands: -0.63% · 1.15% · 2.94% a year per person, from Mauritania's own 15-year record (2011–2025) — mean ± 0.85 standard deviations, clamped to its own 5th–95th percentile. Not an outside estimate of what this country might do.

Who this outlook leaves out

A cohort that reaches working age faster than jobs, training places or clinics are built
Educated young people whose qualifications do not convert into work
A state that must regulate technologies it has too few trained people to assess

2031 versus 2036 · Mauritania

Two horizons, asked the same question

By 2031

Household electricity access moves from 52.2% of the population (2024) to between 57% and 63% by 2031, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 60% — a rise of 7.6 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 2.5 million would still be without it in 2031 under continuation — 41,050 fewer than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Internet use moves from 45.8% of the population (2024) to between 56% and 67% by 2031, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 61% — a rise of 15.4 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 2.4 million would still be without it in 2031 under continuation — 469,358 fewer than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Output per person spans $2,116 to $2,615 by 2031. The $499 between them is under a quarter of today's $2,198.
That spread is the distance between scenarios, not a margin of error — and it is a national average, which does not identify whose income moved.
The population reaches about 6.2 million — roughly 902,724 more people than in 2025, about 3.5 million of them of working age.
This figure is the same in all three scenarios. Most of the people who will be alive in 2031 have already been born.

By 2036

Household electricity access moves from 52.2% of the population (2024) to between 61% and 69% by 2036, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 65% — a rise of 12.3 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 2.5 million would still be without it in 2036 under continuation — 48,773 fewer than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Internet use moves from 45.8% of the population (2024) to between 63% and 77% by 2036, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 69% — a rise of 23.6 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 2.1 million would still be without it in 2036 under continuation — 733,975 fewer than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Output per person spans $2,050 to $3,022 by 2036. The $972 between them is a quarter to a half of today's $2,198.
That spread is the distance between scenarios, not a margin of error — and it is a national average, which does not identify whose income moved.
The population reaches about 7 million — roughly 1.7 million more people than in 2025, about 4 million of them of working age.
This figure is the same in all three scenarios. Most of the people who will be alive in 2036 have already been born.

What has to happen first

Mauritania is identified as being at the drafting stage of a national AI policy. Recorded as proposed: it still has to be adopted before it counts as a change in how things work.
For the Acceleration band to describe the decade, growth per person has to hold near 2.9% a year. This country has reached that rate before — its best year in the window was 3.9% — but has not sustained it across the 15-year record the band is drawn from.

What the growth model cannot see · Mauritania

Population pressure & the youth cohort

Binding constraint — This, not the growth model, is the operative question.

Population is projected to rise 28.5% by 2036, from 5.5 million to 7 million — 1.6 million additional people, on a base where 42% were already under 15 in 2025. Holding living standards constant requires building at that rate merely to stand still. This is the most fixed variable on the page and the least optional.

Why the band cannot contain it

Per-capita growth already nets out population, which hides the absolute scale of what must be built. A constant GDP per capita with a doubling population means twice the schools for the same living standard.

What would invalidate the modelled band

A significant revision to the UN World Population Prospects for this country. The population path here is carried through unchanged and is the least uncertain input on the page.

Assessed in words and deliberately not converted into a probability. This platform does not publish likelihoods it cannot derive from evidence.

AI evidence state · Mauritania

6 of 20 dimensions rest on a document or a measurement

3 dimensions have not been examined at all — which is a statement about this platform's research, not about Mauritania. There is no readiness score here: ranking countries by a weighted sum of twenty evidence states would manufacture a number nobody measured.

4 Measured A published measurement exists for this country and has been read.

2 Documented A policy, law, contract or programme document exists. No measurement of its effect has been found.

5 Inferred Assessed from adjacent indicators. Nothing AI-specific was found for this country; the reading is circumstantial.

6 Not evident Searched, and nothing was found. Informative — but the absence of a published record is not proof that nothing exists.

3 Unexamined This platform has not looked. This is a statement about the research, not about the country.

Full brief for Mauritania · Open in the atlas · Method · How to read the labels