A member of the G5 Sahel and a key player in regional security, Mauritania has an important asset today which is its political stability. It has an economic opening capacity.

Mauritania has a legal framework and tax incentives for investment. The country’s investments are growing and representing the confidence of entrepreneurs.

Located in the Sahel-Saharan region, Mauritania belongs fully to this pivotal area between the Arab Maghreb and West Africa. Mauritania is geographically bounded in the north by Morocco, in the northeast by Algeria, in the east by Mali and in the south-east and in the south by Senegal. It has an Atlantic facade of 754 kilometers, relative proximity to Europe.

Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, Mauritania had carried out a rebasing exercise of its GDP which concluded to a revaluation of 22.7% for 2014 and 34.8% for 2018. GDP is thus estimated at USD 7.6 billion for 2019. The economy is now expected to contract by 3.2% in 2020, against a growth of 6.3% anticipated before the crisis, and to rebound to 2% in 2021. This would bring GDP to USD 7.4 billion by 2020.

According to the 2021 Finance Act, the primary sector is expected to register a recession of 6.9% in 2020, the secondary sector of 2.2% and the tertiary sector of 2.4%. The recovery in 2021 should be driven by the mining industries sector, which will record a growth of 2.7%, and the services sector (+0.9%).

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