Mauritania Social: Poverty and Inequality
MR: Poverty Gap at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: %
MR: Poverty Gap at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % data was reported at 6.800 % in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 7.300 % for 2014. MR: Poverty Gap at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % data is updated yearly, averaging 17.600 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2019, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 33.400 % in 1987 and a record low of 6.800 % in 2019. MR: Poverty Gap at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Poverty gap at $3.65 a day (2017 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $3.65 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 6.800 2019 | yearly | 1987 - 2019 |
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MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population
MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data was reported at 5.400 % in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 6.500 % for 2014. MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 19.800 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2019, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 42.900 % in 1993 and a record low of 5.400 % in 2019. MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $2.15 a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted 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.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 5.400 2019 | yearly | 1987 - 2019 |
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MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population
MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data was reported at 25.800 % in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 26.200 % for 2014. MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 49.200 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2019, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 71.400 % in 1993 and a record low of 25.800 % in 2019. MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Poverty headcount ratio at $3.65 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.65 a day at 2017 international prices.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 25.800 2019 | yearly | 1987 - 2019 |
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MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $6.85 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population
MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $6.85 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data was reported at 68.000 % in 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 66.800 % for 2014. MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $6.85 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 81.800 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2019, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 90.400 % in 1993 and a record low of 66.800 % in 2014. MR: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $6.85 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Poverty headcount ratio at $6.85 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $6.85 a day at 2017 international prices.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 68.000 2019 | yearly | 1987 - 2019 |
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MR: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: %
MR: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: % data was reported at 10.600 % in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 12.100 % for 2014. MR: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: % data is updated yearly, averaging 14.100 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2019, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 22.100 % in 1987 and a record low of 10.600 % in 2019. MR: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: % data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. The percentage of people in the population who live in households whose per capita income or consumption is below half of the median income or consumption per capita. The median is measured at 2017 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the Poverty and Inequality Platform (http://www.pip.worldbank.org). For some countries, medians are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 10.600 2019 | yearly | 1987 - 2019 |
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MR: Proportion of Population Pushed Below the $3.20: Poverty Line by Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure: 2011 PPP: %
MR: Proportion of Population Pushed Below the $3.20: Poverty Line by Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure: 2011 PPP: % data was reported at 2.868 % in 2014. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.220 % for 2004. MR: Proportion of Population Pushed Below the $3.20: Poverty Line by Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure: 2011 PPP: % data is updated yearly, averaging 2.044 % from Dec 2004 (Median) to 2014, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.868 % in 2014 and a record low of 1.220 % in 2004. MR: Proportion of Population Pushed Below the $3.20: Poverty Line by Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure: 2011 PPP: % data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Proportion of population pushed below the $3.20 ($2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure. This indicator shows the fraction of a country’s population experiencing out-of-pocket health impoverishing expenditures, defined as expenditures without which the household they live in would have been above the $3.20 poverty line, but because of the expenditures is below the poverty line. Out-of-pocket health expenditure is defined as any spending incurred by a household when any member uses a health good or service to receive any type of care (preventive, curative, rehabilitative, long-term or palliative care); provided by any type of provider; for any type of disease, illness or health condition; in any type of setting (outpatient, inpatient, at home).; ; World Health Organization and World Bank. 2021. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2021.; Weighted Average; This indicator is related to Sustainable Development Goal 3.8.2 [https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/].
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 2.868 2014 | yearly | 2004 - 2014 |
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MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day
MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day data was reported at 3.190 Intl $/Day in 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 3.140 Intl $/Day for 2014. MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day data is updated yearly, averaging 3.165 Intl $/Day from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2019, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.190 Intl $/Day in 2019 and a record low of 3.140 Intl $/Day in 2014. MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Mean consumption or income per capita (2017 PPP $ per day) of the bottom 40%, used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the bottom 40% of the population in the income distribution in a country.;World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).;;The choice of consumption or income for a country is made according to which welfare aggregate is used to estimate extreme poverty in the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). The practice adopted by the World Bank for estimating global and regional poverty is, in principle, to use per capita consumption expenditure as the welfare measure wherever available; and to use income as the welfare measure for countries for which consumption is unavailable. However, in some cases data on consumption may be available but are outdated or not shared with the World Bank for recent survey years. In these cases, if data on income are available, income is used. Whether data are for consumption or income per capita is noted in the footnotes. Because household surveys are infrequent in most countries and are not aligned across countries, comparisons across countries or over time should be made with a high degree of caution.
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 3.190 2019 | yearly | 2014 - 2019 |
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MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day
MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day data was reported at 6.280 Intl $/Day in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 6.310 Intl $/Day for 2014. MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day data is updated yearly, averaging 6.295 Intl $/Day from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2019, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.310 Intl $/Day in 2014 and a record low of 6.280 Intl $/Day in 2019. MR: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Mean consumption or income per capita (2017 PPP $ per day) used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of total population.;World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).;;The choice of consumption or income for a country is made according to which welfare aggregate is used to estimate extreme poverty in the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). The practice adopted by the World Bank for estimating global and regional poverty is, in principle, to use per capita consumption expenditure as the welfare measure wherever available; and to use income as the welfare measure for countries for which consumption is unavailable. However, in some cases data on consumption may be available but are outdated or not shared with the World Bank for recent survey years. In these cases, if data on income are available, income is used. Whether data are for consumption or income per capita is noted in the footnotes. Because household surveys are infrequent in most countries and are not aligned across countries, comparisons across countries or over time should be made with a high degree of caution.
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 6.280 2019 | yearly | 2014 - 2019 |
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Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population
Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population data was reported at 58.400 % in 2019. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population data is updated yearly, averaging 58.400 % from Dec 2019 (Median) to 2019, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 58.400 % in 2019 and a record low of 58.400 % in 2019. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. The multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (UNDP) is the percentage of a population living in poverty according to UNDPs multidimensional poverty index. The index includes three dimensions -- health, education, and living standards.;Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2023). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2023 country results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 55, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. (https://ophi.org.uk/mpi-methodological-note-55-2/);;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 58.400 2019 | yearly | 2019 - 2019 |
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Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population
Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population data was reported at 42.400 % in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 45.700 % for 2014. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population data is updated yearly, averaging 44.050 % from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2019, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 45.700 % in 2014 and a record low of 42.400 % in 2019. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. The multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (World Bank) is the percentage of a population living in poverty according to the World Bank's Multidimensional Poverty Measure. The Multidimensional Poverty Measure includes three dimensions – monetary poverty, education, and basic infrastructure services – to capture a more complete picture of poverty.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 42.400 2019 | yearly | 2014 - 2019 |
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Poverty Headcount Ratio at Societal Poverty Lines: % of Population
Poverty Headcount Ratio at Societal Poverty Lines: % of Population data was reported at 27.900 % in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 28.600 % for 2014. Poverty Headcount Ratio at Societal Poverty Lines: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 37.100 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2019, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 48.400 % in 1993 and a record low of 27.900 % in 2019. Poverty Headcount Ratio at Societal Poverty Lines: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mauritania – Table MR.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. The poverty headcount ratio at societal poverty line is the percentage of a population living in poverty according to the World Bank's Societal Poverty Line. The Societal Poverty Line is expressed in purchasing power adjusted 2017 U.S. dollars and defined as max($2.15, $1.15 + 0.5*Median). This means that when the national median is sufficiently low, the Societal Poverty line is equivalent to the extreme poverty line, $2.15. For countries with a sufficiently high national median, the Societal Poverty Line grows as countries’ median income grows.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
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| 27.900 2019 | yearly | 1987 - 2019 |