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Mauritania
Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Global rank#205out of 215 countries
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Historical trend

4.93.92.81.80.8196119922023Mauritania · 2023: 5Mauritania

Analytical takeaways

  • Mauritania records 5 for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in 2023, ranking #205 globally out of 215 countries.
  • Population density (people per sq. km of land area) increased from 1 in 1961 to 5 in 2023, a gain of 4.
  • 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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