Mauritania recorded a Current Account deficit of 5.80 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2025. Current Account to GDP in Mauritania averaged -12.93 percent of GDP from 1963 until 2025, 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 -6.30 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 -5.80 percent of GDP in 2028, according to our econometric models.