Migration trends in Mauritania
Africa
189.8K people from around the world have made Mauritania their home. That's 3.7% of the country population, arriving from 36 different countries
5.2M
Population
189.8K
Immigrants
91.7K
Emigrants
+98.1K
Inflow
1 in every 27 people in Mauritania was born abroad
The #115 largest immigrant destination worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Mauritania
Where people come from
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
110.2K immigrants · 111.3K emigrants
1995
- Mali overtook Senegal as the largest source of new arrivals
- The outflow deepened — net losses doubled to 39K
2000
- Immigration contracted — the foreign-born population fell 37%
- The exodus eased — the diaspora abroad shrank by 36%
2015
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 145%
- Mali overtook Senegal as the largest source of new arrivals
- The country became a destination — more people arriving than leaving
- Surge of immigrants from Mali — 99.2K new arrivals
Today
- Since 1990: 79.6K more foreign-born residents and roughly the same number of citizens living abroad