MaliandMauritania

c. 1235 · 28 November 1960

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Mali

c. 1235 — Sundiata Keita founds the Mali Empire on the upper Niger

Dossier →Chronicle →

Mauritania

28 November 1960 — Independence of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

MLIMRT
  • GDP
    $30 B2025$12 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $1,1932025$2,1982025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    5.6%20254.0%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    3.3%20251.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    48.8%202594.0%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

MLIMRT
  • Population
    25 m20255.3 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    60.7 yrs202468.7 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    32.2%202561.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    5.520244.62024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

MLIMRT

Health

MLIMRT
  • Health spending
    3.8%20234.3%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.1920230.262022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    73.0202436.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    72.0%202493.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

MLIMRT
  • Adult literacy
    35.6%202459.5%2020
    Observed 2024 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    4.2%20237.6%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    72.8%2023105.4%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    38.9%202336.0%2020
    Observed 2023 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    5.1%20156.0%2020
    Observed 2015 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

MLIMRT
  • R&D spending
    0.1%20230.0%2018
    Observed 2023 / 2018 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    262023—
    Observed 2023 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    36.8%202445.8%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    1122022922024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    5.4%20239.4%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

MLIMRT

Resources

MLIMRT
  • Resource rents
    18.4%202111.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    16.2%20219.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    2.2%20211.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    49.5%202452.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Lithium (mined)
    9,400 t2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Iron ore
    —15 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

MLIMRT
  • Military burden
    4.2%20242.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $929 M2024$260 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    41,000202021,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1076

    Almoravids take Kumbi Saleh

    Berber Almoravids from present-day Mauritania capture Ghana's chief city, weakening the empire and the trade routes it controlled.

    War & Rupture · from the Mali chronicle · The Ghana Empire (Wagadou) · REFS 2 — The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th Century), The Ghana Empire — World Civilization