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Population in Mauritania compared to Montenegro: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mauritania was 5,169,395 in 2024 vs 623,831 people in Montenegro in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mauritania's population is 5,432,542 people compared to 618,209 in Montenegro.

Population statistics:

  • Mauritania's population is 8.79 times bigger than Montenegro's.
  • Mauritania is ranked the 123rd most populous country in the world, while Montenegro is the 166th.
  • The countries together account for 0.07% of the world: 0.07% for Mauritania vs 0.007% for Montenegro.
  • For the last 10 years, Mauritania has had an average growth rate of +3% per year vs +0.02% in Montenegro.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mauritania has increased from 2.94M people to 5.43M (84.8% growth), while Montenegro has grown from 614K to 618K (0.64% growth).
  • Mauritania is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 17.1M people, while Montenegro's population already peaked in 2019 at 627K people and is projected to decrease to 319K people by 2100.

Mauritania vs Montenegro: live population counter

Mauritania Montenegro
Current population
5432542
618209
Population rank 123/197 166/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.007%
One net population change
3.58 minutes
1.21 days
One birth every
3.04 minutes
1.25 hours
One death every
19 minutes
1.39 hours
One migration net change every
4.01 hours
5.2 hours
Annual migration change -2,185 -1,686
Daily growth/decline +403 +1
Annual growth/decline +146,954 +302
Annual growth/decline rate +2.93% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 18/197 163/197

Mauritania and Montenegro: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mauritania
Population

Growth rate
Montenegro
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mauritania Montenegro Mauritania Montenegro
1960 824,298 480,579 - -
1961 846,167 491,140 2.65% 2.2%
1962 869,184 502,558 2.72% 2.32%
1963 893,423 513,409 2.79% 2.16%
1964 918,955 521,753 2.86% 1.63%
1965 945,838 526,327 2.93% 0.88%
1966 974,157 526,419 2.99% 0.02%
1967 1,003,843 522,796 3.05% -0.69%
1968 1,034,739 517,481 3.08% -1.02%
1969 1,066,754 513,340 3.09% -0.8%
1970 1,099,806 512,407 3.1% -0.18%
1971 1,133,702 515,449 3.08% 0.59%
1972 1,168,355 521,785 3.06% 1.23%
1973 1,203,838 530,220 3.04% 1.62%
1974 1,240,188 538,902 3.02% 1.64%
1975 1,277,330 546,487 2.99% 1.41%
1976 1,315,336 552,562 2.98% 1.11%
1977 1,353,768 557,576 2.92% 0.91%
1978 1,392,713 562,065 2.88% 0.81%
1979 1,432,758 566,888 2.88% 0.86%
1980 1,474,043 572,608 2.88% 1.01%
1981 1,516,877 579,445 2.91% 1.19%
1982 1,561,176 587,001 2.92% 1.3%
1983 1,606,746 594,506 2.92% 1.28%
1984 1,653,693 600,884 2.92% 1.07%
1985 1,702,107 605,398 2.93% 0.75%
1986 1,751,835 607,711 2.92% 0.38%
1987 1,803,014 608,144 2.92% 0.07%
1988 1,855,859 607,413 2.93% -0.12%
1989 1,903,048 606,571 2.54% -0.14%
1990 1,951,878 606,372 2.57% -0.03%
1991 2,009,738 607,105 2.96% 0.12%
1992 2,088,135 608,516 3.9% 0.23%
1993 2,174,328 610,170 4.13% 0.27%
1994 2,249,454 611,389 3.46% 0.2%
1995 2,312,017 611,712 2.78% 0.05%
1996 2,358,188 611,003 2% -0.12%
1997 2,411,306 609,520 2.25% -0.24%
1998 2,474,651 607,662 2.63% -0.3%
1999 2,541,698 606,001 2.71% -0.27%
2000 2,613,441 604,950 2.82% -0.17%
2001 2,678,760 607,389 2.5% 0.4%
2002 2,738,655 609,828 2.24% 0.4%
2003 2,802,046 612,267 2.31% 0.4%
2004 2,868,664 613,353 2.38% 0.18%
2005 2,939,059 614,261 2.45% 0.15%
2006 3,013,660 615,025 2.54% 0.12%
2007 3,093,059 615,875 2.63% 0.14%
2008 3,183,269 616,969 2.92% 0.18%
2009 3,284,448 618,294 3.18% 0.21%
2010 3,390,965 619,428 3.24% 0.18%
2011 3,502,811 620,345 3.3% 0.15%
2012 3,619,034 621,418 3.32% 0.17%
2013 3,734,318 622,587 3.19% 0.19%
2014 3,848,514 623,744 3.06% 0.19%
2015 3,965,959 624,651 3.05% 0.15%
2016 4,086,657 625,353 3.04% 0.11%
2017 4,210,600 625,982 3.03% 0.1%
2018 4,337,685 626,438 3.02% 0.07%
2019 4,467,708 626,753 3% 0.05%
2020 4,600,131 626,590 2.96% -0.03%
2021 4,734,874 625,053 2.93% -0.25%
2022 4,875,637 623,591 2.97% -0.23%
2023 5,022,441 623,529 3.01% -0.01%
2024 5,169,395 623,831 2.93% 0.05%
2025 5,315,063 618,209 2.82% -0.9%
2026 5,461,313 611,868 2.75% -1.03%
2027 5,608,785 608,570 2.7% -0.54%
2028 5,757,952 605,281 2.66% -0.54%
2029 5,909,186 601,917 2.63% -0.56%
2030 6,062,523 598,501 2.59% -0.57%
2031 6,217,791 595,047 2.56% -0.58%
2032 6,374,839 591,507 2.53% -0.59%
2033 6,533,828 587,900 2.49% -0.61%
2034 6,694,445 584,230 2.46% -0.62%
2035 6,856,314 580,502 2.42% -0.64%
2036 7,019,227 576,713 2.38% -0.65%
2037 7,183,105 572,889 2.33% -0.66%
2038 7,348,357 569,027 2.3% -0.67%
2039 7,514,734 565,147 2.26% -0.68%
2040 7,681,907 561,254 2.22% -0.69%
2041 7,850,210 557,345 2.19% -0.7%
2042 8,020,480 553,430 2.17% -0.7%
2043 8,192,542 549,485 2.15% -0.71%
2044 8,365,171 545,508 2.11% -0.72%
2045 8,538,521 541,510 2.07% -0.73%
2046 8,713,247 537,487 2.05% -0.74%
2047 8,888,466 533,411 2.01% -0.76%
2048 9,064,207 529,311 1.98% -0.77%
2049 9,240,169 525,208 1.94% -0.78%
2050 9,415,589 521,056 1.9% -0.79%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mauritania increased by 1,026,900 people (a 34.9% growth), while Montenegro gained 10,390 people (a 1.69% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mauritania gained 1,466,583 (a 37% growth), while Montenegro's population decreased by -6,442 (a 1.03% decline).

Mauritania was ranked 133rd most populous country in 2005 and is 123rd in 2025. Montenegro was ranked 162nd in 2005 and ranked 166th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Mauritania's population will grow by 73.3% to 9,415,589 people with a rank change from 123rd to 103rd. The population of Montenegro will decrease by 15.7% to 521,056 people and rank change from 166th to 170th.

Biggest cities by population

Mauritania
City Population
Nouakchott 1.08M
Rosso 33.5K
Montenegro
City Population
Podgorica 151K
Ulcinj 19.9K
Cetinje 14K
Plav 13.8K
Bar 13.7K
Budva 13.3K
Berane 11.1K
Mojkovac 3.59K
Kotor 961

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