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Mauritania
Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population)

Access to electricity, rural is the percentage of rural population with access to electricity.

Global rank#204out of 205 countries
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Historical trend

4.93.92.91.80.8200020062012Mauritania · 2012: 1Mauritania

Analytical takeaways

  • Mauritania records 1 for Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) in 2012, ranking #204 globally out of 205 countries.
  • Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) declined from 3 in 2000 to 1 in 2012, a decrease of 2.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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