World Summary --- Mauritania
Admin units used for gridding

Summary information

Names
ISO3-Code
MRT
Continent`
Africa
Country Name
Mauritania
Administrative
Admin Level Used
1
Level1 Type
Region
Number of Units
44
Population Estimates
Ref. Year First
1982
Ref. Year Last
1988
Pop '90 (estimated) ('000)
2,070
Pop '95 (estimated) ('000)
2,625
Pop '90 (UN) ('000)
2,026
Pop '95 (UN) ('000)
2,329
Difference '90
-2.2 %
Difference '95
-12.7 %
Spatial Estimates
Area (sq km)
1,030,700
Resolution (km)
153
PopPerUnit ('000)`
53
Resources
Web Site 1

Data sources

This database was initially produced for the UNEP/GRID-WRI-NCGIA Africa Population Database.

See the GRID-Sioux Falls web site at http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov

The population figures for 1960-90 are, in turn, based on the OECD/Club du Sahel West Africa Long Term Perspective Study (WALTPS), and were estimated by Benoit Ninnin. The 1980 and 1990 estimates produced for this database were used to produce the P95E estimate.

WALTPS pop estimates based on:

  1. Etude d'une Image - Long Terme de l'Afrique.
  2. Atlas Jeune Afrique de la Mauritanie, 1977.
  3. Annuaire statistique, 1990.
  4. Bureau du recensement: Resultats prioritaires du Recensement de la population et de l'habitat, 1988, Vol. I: Nouakchott 1992.
  5. Ignegongba K.: Fecondite et ethnie en Mauritanie, CERPA-CERPOD, Paris 1992.
  6. Groupe de demographie africaine: evolution des effectifs de la population des pays africains: Mauritanie. Paris, Septembre 1982.
  7. Laborie J.P. et J.F. Langumier: Urbanisation de la Mauritanie: Enquete dans trois villes secondaires: Rosso, Kiffa, et Ajoun-El-Atrouss: Documentation francaise, Paris 1988.
  8. Lopez-Escartin N.: Donnees de base sur la population, Mauritanie: CEPED, No. 14, Paris, Janvier 1992.

Boundaries produced by the USGS/EDC USAID/FEWS project.

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