If you lived in Mauritania instead of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, you would:

Health

be 80.0% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 1.5% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2018. In Mauritania, that number is 0.3% of people as of 2020.

be 46.4% less likely to be obese

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 23.7% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Mauritania, that number is 12.7% of people as of 2016.

live 11.5 years less

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the average life expectancy is 77 years (75 years for men, 79 years for women) as of 2022. In Mauritania, that number is 65 years (63 years for men, 68 years for women) as of 2022.

Economy

be 45.7% less likely to be unemployed

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 18.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2008. In Mauritania, that number is 10.2% as of 2017.

make 58.7% less money

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a GDP per capita of $12,100 as of 2020, while in Mauritania, the GDP per capita is $5,000 as of 2020.

Life

have 2.3 times more children

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, there are approximately 12.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Mauritania, there are 28.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.

be 7.8 times more likely to die during childbirth

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 98.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Mauritania, 766.0 women do as of 2017.

be 4.0 times more likely to die during infancy

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 12.9 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Mauritania, on the other hand, 51.0 children do as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 86.4% more likely to have internet access

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 22.0% of the population has internet access as of 2020. In Mauritania, about 41.0% do as of 2020.

be 68.0% less likely to have access to electricity

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 100% of the population has electricity access as of 2020. In Mauritania, 32% of the population do as of 2019.

be 10.4% less likely to have access to improved drinking water

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 95% of people have improved drinking water access as of 2017. In Mauritania, 85% of people do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 66.7% less on education

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines spends 5.7% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Mauritania spends 1.9% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 31.2% less on healthcare

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines spends 4.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Mauritania, that number is 3.3% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 9.0 times more coastline

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a total of 84 km of coastline. In Mauritania, that number is 754 km.


The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Mauritania: At a glance

Mauritania is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 1,030,700 sq km. Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976 but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed TAYA seized power in a coup in 1984 and ruled Mauritania with a heavy hand for more than two decades. A series of presidential elections that he held were widely seen as flawed. A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council that oversaw a transition to democratic rule. Independent candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh ABDALLAHI was inaugurated in April 2007 as Mauritania's first freely and fairly elected president. His term ended prematurely in August 2008 when a military junta led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel AZIZ deposed him and installed a military council government. AZIZ was subsequently elected president in July 2009 and sworn in the following month. AZIZ sustained injuries from an accidental shooting by his own troops in October 2012 but has continued to maintain his authority. The country continues to experience ethnic tensions among its black population (Afro-Mauritanians) and white and black Moor (Arab-Berber) communities, and confronts a terrorism threat by al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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