Economy · Life expectancy at birth · Mauritania
Mauritania’s life expectancy at birth rose to 68.7 years in 2024.
68.7 years
2024
Up 0.23 years from 2023.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
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68.7 years
What it is. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn would live if the death rates at every age in a given year stayed the same throughout their life. It is built from a life table that combines mortality in infancy, childhood, adulthood and old age into one summary. Because infant and child deaths pull the average down sharply, the figure responds strongly to progress in early survival. It describes the population as a whole and says nothing about years lived in good health or about differences between regions and income groups.
Higher is better. A higher figure means people in Mauritania are surviving longer at every stage of life, so a rising line is the outcome to want. The latest figure is 68.7 years for 2024, up from 68.5 years a year earlier, a gain of 0.23 years or 0.33%. Since 2015 the lowest level was 66.5 years, recorded in 2015. The 2024 figure is also the highest in that span, so the latest reading sits at the top of its range.
Why it matters. For a household in Mauritania, a newborn can now expect to live about 68.7 years, which affects how long families plan to earn, save and care for older relatives. For the state, a longer-lived population means health services and any retirement support have more years to cover. The rise from 66.5 years in 2015 has been gradual, so each further year of gain depends on steady progress in child survival and basic care.
| Period | Life expectancy at birth · Mauritania |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 66.5 years |
| 2016 | 66.8 years |
| 2017 | 67.1 years |
| 2018 | 67.4 years |
| 2019 | 67.6 years |
| 2020 | 66.8 years |
| 2021 | 66.8 years |
| 2022 | 68.3 years |
| 2023 | 68.5 years |
| 2024 | 68.7 years |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Life expectancy at birth, Mauritania, 2024; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/economy/life-expectancy/mauritania
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Life expectancy at birth, total. Unit: years.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series SP.DYN.LE00.IN), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.