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Capital
Nuakchot

Population
4 525 696 (miles) inhabitants

Name and post of head of government and/or state
Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani / Mohamed Ould Bilal, President / Prime Minister

Currency and iso code
Nueva Ouguiya (MRU)

Equivalence in euros (Julio 2021)
1 EUR = 43,255 MRU

Religion
Muslim (Maliki Sunni)

Language
Official: Arabic; national languages: Pulaar, Soninke and Wolof; others: French

CANARY ISLANDS GOVERNMENT OFFICE
Address: Embassy of Spain in Mauritania. Rue Mamadou Konate s/n, BP 232 - Nouakchott - Mauritania
Contact: Mar Naranjo Suárez - Delegate in Mauritania of the Fundación Canaria para la Acción Exterior - Canarian Foundation for Foreign Action
Email: mnarsua@fucaex.org
Telephone: +222 45 24 54 05 / +222 42 46 58 74

Capital	Nuakchot
Population	4 525 696 (miles) inhabitants
Name and post of head of government and/or state	Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani / Mohamed Ould Bilal, President / Prime Minister
Currency and iso code	Nueva Ouguiya (MRU)
Equivalence in euros (Julio 2021)	1 EUR = 43,255 MRU
Religion	Muslim (Maliki Sunni)
Language	Official: Arabic; national languages: Pulaar, Soninke and Wolof; others: French
CANARY ISLANDS GOVERNMENT OFFICE	Address: Embassy of Spain in Mauritania. Rue Mamadou Konate s/n, BP 232 - Nouakchott - Mauritania Contact: Mar Naranjo Suárez - Delegate in Mauritania of the Fundación Canaria para la Acción Exterior - Canarian Foundation for Foreign Action Email: mnarsua@fucaex.org Telephone: +222 45 24 54 05 / +222 42 46 58 74

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

Per Capita GDP Growth (annual %)

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

GDP Structure by sectors (%)

Source: UNCTADstat. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - Updated on 05/07/2021

Agriculture. Hunting. Forestry. Fishing

Industry

Services

Consumer price inflation (annual %)

Source: International Monetary Fund - Updated on 05/07/2021

Total unemployment, men and women (% of the total active male and female population)

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

Male

Female

Evolution of exchange against Euro with currency: 2021

Source: InforEuro. European Commission - Updated on 05/07/2021

TRADE AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT INDICATORS

Exports evolution (in thousands of €):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

National

Canary Islands

Imports evolution (in thousands of €):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

National

Canary Islands

Exports from Canary Islands to the country. By product type (%, 2020):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Imports to Canary Islands from the country. By product type (%, 2020):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Number of Spanish and Canarian businesses exporting to the country

Source: DataEmpresas Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Number of Spanish and Canarian businesses importing from the country

Source: DataEmpresas Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Direct foreign investment. Net capital entry capital (balance of payments. US$ at current prices)

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

Evolution of Spanish and Canarian investment (gross investment flow in thousands of euros)

Source: DataInvex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and COFACE for Trade - Updated on 17/02/2021

	Scale of evaluation		Risk level
Evaluating Entity	Minimum risk	Maximum risk	Previous	Current
Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE)	1	7	7	7
COFACE for Trade	A1	E	-	C (elevado)

RELEVANT INDICATORS

Name of index

Score

Place in ranking

Ease of Doing Business Index

2019	2020
51.99/100	51.1/100

2019	2020
148/190	152/190

Corruption Perceptions Index

2018	2019
27/100	28/100

2018	2019
144/180	137/180

Economic Competitiveness Index

2018	2019
40.8/100	40.9/100

2018	2019
131/140	134/141

Human Development Index

2018	2019
0.527/1	0.546/1

2018	2019
161/189 (Desarrollo Bajo)	157/189 (Desarrollo Bajo)

Source:
Ease of Doing Business Index: Doing Business Report. World Bank Group - Updated on 18/12/2020
Corruption Perceptions Index : International Transparency - Updated on 18/12/2020
Economic Competitiveness Index: Global Competitiveness Report. World Economic Forum - Updated on 18/12/2020
Human Development Index: United Nations Program for Development - Updated on 18/12/2020

DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

Official Development Aid allocated to the country in 2019, by sector of origin. In thousands of €

Source: Official Development Aid Information System. Spanish Cooperation - Updated on 05/07/2021

Official Development Aid allocated to the country in 2019, by Autonomous Communities. In thousands of €

Source: Official Development Aid Information System. Spanish Cooperation - Updated on 05/07/2021

Official Development Aid allocated to the country in 2019, by local entities. In thousands of €

Source: Official Development Aid Information System. Spanish Cooperation - Updated on 05/07/2021

TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION

INTERREG MAC Programme

Source: INTERREG V-A Spain-Portugal MAC 2014-2020 Programme - Updated on 05/07/2021

AIR AND SEA CONNECTIVITY

Passengers


City	Company	Frequency	Contact
Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	Mauritanian Airlines	Semanal	https://www.mauritaniaairline.com/bienvenida	17/12/2020
Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	Mauritanian Airlines	Semanal	https://www.mauritaniaairline.com/bienvenida	17/12/2020
Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	Binter	Semanal	https://www.bintercanarias.com/	17/12/2020

Cargo

AIR TRANSPORT
City	Company	Frequency	Contact
Posibilidad de contratar charter	Swift Air	Posibilidad de contratar charter	https://www.swiftair.com/	17/12/2020
Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	Swift Air	4 a la semana	https://www.swiftair.com/	17/12/2020

MARINE TRANSPORT
City	Company	Frequency	Contact
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Nouadhibou	Miller y Cía	Semanal	https://www.boluda.com.es/es/inicio/	17/12/2020
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Nouadhibou	Marmedsa Canarias	Semanal	https://www.noatum.com/servicios-maritimos/	17/12/2020
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Nouakchott	Marmedsa Canarias	Semanal	https://www.noatum.com/servicios-maritimos/	17/12/2020
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Nouakchott	Canarship	Semanal	http://canarship.eu/	17/12/2020
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Nouakchott	MSC	Semanal	https://www.msc.com/esp	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	Universal Africa Lines (UAL)	Mensual	https://ualalliance.com/	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	Universal Africa Lines (UAL)	Mensual	https://ualalliance.com/	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	Safmarine / Maersk	Semanal	https://www.safmarine.com/maersk	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	Safmarine / Maersk	Semanal	https://www.safmarine.com/maersk	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	MSC	Semanal	https://www.msc.com/esp	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	MSC	Semanal	https://www.msc.com/esp	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	Diamond Line	Semanal	http://www.palmasport.es/es/navieras-del-puerto/	13/01/2021
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	Diamond Line	Semanal	http://www.palmasport.es/es/navieras-del-puerto/	13/01/2021
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	CMA - CGM	Semanal	https://www.cma-cgm.com/	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	CMA - CGM	Semanal	https://www.cma-cgm.com/	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouakchott	Boluda Lines	Semanal	https://www.boluda.com.es/es/inicio/	17/12/2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Nouadhibou	Boluda Lines	Semanal	https://www.boluda.com.es/es/inicio/	17/12/2020

2020	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
National	8.876,85	9.154,42	10.044,42	9.612,72	10.946,53	7.593,56	8.926,15	7.185,60	7.667,31	9.374,49	12.140,03	16.327,18
Canary Islands	2.452,57	1.992,77	2.095,60	2.639,58	1.381,65	2.025,59	3.025,14	1.637,03	1.519,44	2.234,82	3.264,96	2.337,63

2020	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
National	22.778,36	30.768,11	24.536,21	13.050,63	8.690,09	12.120,84	14.049,82	15.094,20	17.494,66	16.052,76	13.624,24	13.075,44
Canary Islands	2.872,84	3.160,20	4.414,22	1.011,99	1.011,44	2.000,33	2.308,41	1.531,72	2.986,64	2.721,40	3.519,43	1.728,99

2020	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
	54,89	29,57	59,31	121,06	14,19	42,86	264,54	38,59	100,65	203,66	5,26	44,83
	41,47	72,05	30,04	73,49	12,75	0,00	108,56	59,36	1,04	46,70	11,19	29,23
	764,57	819,32	788,50	1.277,25	572,91	588,73	1.561,87	456,77	440,67	536,88	1.702,74	834,16
	216,99	77,42	60,54	31,59	26,03	7,36	14,06	49,41	15,93	54,10	137,85	87,75
	1,38	5,26	1,08	0,48	1,28	0,88	2,85	5,27	14,21	2,34	1,55	0,85
	62,80	38,21	101,36	40,85	17,68	104,91	108,28	23,79	40,05	75,36	44,50	115,19
	200,77	43,04	140,03	196,35	217,51	186,88	95,37	116,60	103,24	253,76	231,77	138,23
	676,07	455,00	389,76	502,41	193,37	710,70	405,56	443,22	379,23	610,67	678,52	516,16
	433,62	452,89	524,96	396,10	325,93	383,27	464,07	444,03	424,43	451,37	451,58	571,24

2020	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00
	0,00	0,27	26,08	0,42	0,00	1,46	0,50	0,77	0,65	0,00	5,46	1,66
	0,00	0,36	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00
	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00
	0,00	0,06	0,28	0,55	0,26	0,00	5,78	0,00	1,76	0,00	2,82	0,00
	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00
	0,08	0,00	0,05	0,00	0,00	0,05	0,00	0,04	0,00	0,10	0,09	0,04
	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,05	4,00	0,50	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,10	0,00	0,00
	2.872,76	3.159,51	4.387,81	1.010,97	1.007,18	1.998,31	2.302,12	1.530,90	2.984,23	2.721,19	3.511,05	1.727,29

2020	Enero	Febrero	Marzo	Abril	Mayo	Junio	Julio	Agosto	Septiembre	Octubre	Noviembre	Diciembre
Nacional	312	356	309	248	290	318	371	303	332	384	385	424
Canarias	74	82	71	55	58	95	108	86	88	101	111	106

Año 2020	Nacional	Canarias
Trimestre 1	0,00	0,00
Trimestre 2	0,00	0,00
Trimestre 3	0,00	0,00
Trimestre 4	0,00	0,00

Mauritania

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Name and post of head of government and/or state

Currency and iso code

Equivalence in euros (Julio 2021)

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CANARY ISLANDS GOVERNMENT OFFICE

GDP Growth (annual %)

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

Per Capita GDP Growth (annual %)

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

GDP Structure by sectors (%)

Source: UNCTADstat. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - Updated on 05/07/2021

Consumer price inflation (annual %)

Source: International Monetary Fund - Updated on 05/07/2021

Total unemployment, men and women (% of the total active male and female population)

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

Evolution of exchange against Euro with currency: 2021

Source: InforEuro. European Commission - Updated on 05/07/2021

Exports evolution (in thousands of €):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Imports evolution (in thousands of €):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Exports from Canary Islands to the country. By product type (%, 2020):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Imports to Canary Islands from the country. By product type (%, 2020):

Source: DataComex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Number of Spanish and Canarian businesses exporting to the country

Source: DataEmpresas Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Number of Spanish and Canarian businesses importing from the country

Source: DataEmpresas Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Direct foreign investment. Net capital entry capital (balance of payments. US$ at current prices)

Source: World Bank - Update on 05/07/2021

Evolution of Spanish and Canarian investment (gross investment flow in thousands of euros)

Source: DataInvex. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism - Updated on 05/07/2021

Country's risk indicators

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and COFACE for Trade - Updated on 17/02/2021

Official Development Aid allocated to the country in 2019, by sector of origin. In thousands of €

Source: Official Development Aid Information System. Spanish Cooperation - Updated on 05/07/2021

Official Development Aid allocated to the country in 2019, by Autonomous Communities. In thousands of €

Source: Official Development Aid Information System. Spanish Cooperation - Updated on 05/07/2021

Official Development Aid allocated to the country in 2019, by local entities. In thousands of €

Source: Official Development Aid Information System. Spanish Cooperation - Updated on 05/07/2021

Source: INTERREG V-A Spain-Portugal MAC 2014-2020 Programme - Updated on 05/07/2021

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