- ISO 3166
MR- Main language + region
mey-MR- Currency
- MRU · Mauritanian Ouguiya
- Region
- not grouped
Mauritania
Mauritania has 4.3M people, and 2M of them are online. Hassaniyya is the most widely spoken language at 87%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Arabic is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to mey-MR.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
2M
0%world median 81%100%
46% of 4.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$2,198
Higher than 19% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
27%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Hassaniyya 87% · Arabic 85% · French 13%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
59%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Mauritania
share of 4.3M people
- Hassaniyya87%3.8M
- Arabicofficial85%3.7M
- French13%562.6K
- Fula5.7%246.7K
- Wolof0.3%10K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Hassaniyya in 3 territories and 9.2M speakers in total; Mauritania holds 41% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Hassaniyya profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (mey-MR).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Mon
Currency
MRU 1,234.56
1,234.56 in MRU · Mauritanian Ouguiya