Mauritania recorded a Current Account deficit of 9.40 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. Current Account to GDP in Mauritania averaged -13.09 percent of GDP from 1963 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 6.33 percent of GDP in 1984 and a record low of -44.50 percent of GDP in 2014. source: Central Bank of Mauritania
Current Account to GDP in Mauritania is expected to reach -7.00 percent of GDP by the end of 2026, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Mauritania Current Account to GDP is projected to trend around -6.10 percent of GDP in 2027 and -5.10 percent of GDP in 2028, according to our econometric models.