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Population in Mauritania compared to Saint Vincent: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mauritania was 5,169,395 in 2024 vs 100,616 people in Saint Vincent in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mauritania's population is 5,432,542 people compared to 99,920 in Saint Vincent.

Population statistics:

  • Mauritania's population is 54.4 times bigger than Saint Vincent's.
  • Mauritania is ranked the 123rd most populous country in the world, while Saint Vincent is the 184th.
  • The countries together account for 0.07% of the world: 0.07% for Mauritania vs 0.001% for Saint Vincent.
  • For the last 10 years, Mauritania has had an average growth rate of +3% per year vs -0.65% in Saint Vincent.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mauritania has increased from 2.94M people to 5.43M (84.8% growth), while Saint Vincent has declined from 112K to 99.9K (11.1% decline).
  • Mauritania is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 17.1M people, while Saint Vincent's population already peaked in 2000 at 114K people and is projected to decrease to 64.2K people by 2100.

Mauritania vs Saint Vincent: live population counter

Mauritania Saint Vincent
Current population
5432542
99920
Population rank 123/197 184/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.001%
One net population change
3.58 minutes
12.4 hours
One birth every
3.04 minutes
7.12 hours
One death every
19 minutes
7.52 hours
One migration net change every
4.01 hours
11.9 hours
Annual migration change -2,185 -737
Daily growth/decline +403 -2
Annual growth/decline +146,954 -707
Annual growth/decline rate +2.93% -0.7%
Population growth rate rank 18/197 189/197

Mauritania and Saint Vincent: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mauritania
Population

Growth rate
Saint Vincent
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mauritania Saint Vincent Mauritania Saint Vincent
1960 824,298 84,388 - -
1961 846,167 85,870 2.65% 1.76%
1962 869,184 87,236 2.72% 1.59%
1963 893,423 88,523 2.79% 1.48%
1964 918,955 89,749 2.86% 1.38%
1965 945,838 90,927 2.93% 1.31%
1966 974,157 92,052 2.99% 1.24%
1967 1,003,843 93,124 3.05% 1.16%
1968 1,034,739 94,123 3.08% 1.07%
1969 1,066,754 95,058 3.09% 0.99%
1970 1,099,806 95,964 3.1% 0.95%
1971 1,133,702 96,872 3.08% 0.95%
1972 1,168,355 97,790 3.06% 0.95%
1973 1,203,838 98,691 3.04% 0.92%
1974 1,240,188 99,556 3.02% 0.88%
1975 1,277,330 100,387 2.99% 0.83%
1976 1,315,336 101,197 2.98% 0.81%
1977 1,353,768 101,999 2.92% 0.79%
1978 1,392,713 102,775 2.88% 0.76%
1979 1,432,758 103,478 2.88% 0.68%
1980 1,474,043 104,213 2.88% 0.71%
1981 1,516,877 105,073 2.91% 0.83%
1982 1,561,176 105,969 2.92% 0.85%
1983 1,606,746 106,838 2.92% 0.82%
1984 1,653,693 107,687 2.92% 0.79%
1985 1,702,107 108,506 2.93% 0.76%
1986 1,751,835 109,281 2.92% 0.71%
1987 1,803,014 110,001 2.92% 0.66%
1988 1,855,859 110,658 2.93% 0.6%
1989 1,903,048 111,272 2.54% 0.55%
1990 1,951,878 111,812 2.57% 0.49%
1991 2,009,738 112,222 2.96% 0.37%
1992 2,088,135 112,509 3.9% 0.26%
1993 2,174,328 112,735 4.13% 0.2%
1994 2,249,454 112,918 3.46% 0.16%
1995 2,312,017 113,047 2.78% 0.11%
1996 2,358,188 113,119 2% 0.06%
1997 2,411,306 113,141 2.25% 0.02%
1998 2,474,651 113,180 2.63% 0.03%
1999 2,541,698 113,366 2.71% 0.16%
2000 2,613,441 113,545 2.82% 0.16%
2001 2,678,760 113,501 2.5% -0.04%
2002 2,738,655 113,347 2.24% -0.14%
2003 2,802,046 113,141 2.31% -0.18%
2004 2,868,664 112,835 2.38% -0.27%
2005 2,939,059 112,450 2.45% -0.34%
2006 3,013,660 112,014 2.54% -0.39%
2007 3,093,059 111,531 2.63% -0.43%
2008 3,183,269 111,028 2.92% -0.45%
2009 3,284,448 110,508 3.18% -0.47%
2010 3,390,965 109,959 3.24% -0.5%
2011 3,502,811 109,349 3.3% -0.55%
2012 3,619,034 108,736 3.32% -0.56%
2013 3,734,318 108,135 3.19% -0.55%
2014 3,848,514 107,535 3.06% -0.55%
2015 3,965,959 106,960 3.05% -0.53%
2016 4,086,657 106,349 3.04% -0.57%
2017 4,210,600 105,663 3.03% -0.65%
2018 4,337,685 104,926 3.02% -0.7%
2019 4,467,708 104,167 3% -0.72%
2020 4,600,131 103,526 2.96% -0.62%
2021 4,734,874 102,841 2.93% -0.66%
2022 4,875,637 102,046 2.97% -0.77%
2023 5,022,441 101,323 3.01% -0.71%
2024 5,169,395 100,616 2.93% -0.7%
2025 5,315,063 99,920 2.82% -0.69%
2026 5,461,313 99,240 2.75% -0.68%
2027 5,608,785 98,588 2.7% -0.66%
2028 5,757,952 97,985 2.66% -0.61%
2029 5,909,186 97,407 2.63% -0.59%
2030 6,062,523 96,851 2.59% -0.57%
2031 6,217,791 96,335 2.56% -0.53%
2032 6,374,839 95,828 2.53% -0.53%
2033 6,533,828 95,358 2.49% -0.49%
2034 6,694,445 94,912 2.46% -0.47%
2035 6,856,314 94,483 2.42% -0.45%
2036 7,019,227 94,073 2.38% -0.43%
2037 7,183,105 93,697 2.33% -0.4%
2038 7,348,357 93,336 2.3% -0.39%
2039 7,514,734 92,983 2.26% -0.38%
2040 7,681,907 92,646 2.22% -0.36%
2041 7,850,210 92,327 2.19% -0.34%
2042 8,020,480 91,991 2.17% -0.36%
2043 8,192,542 91,640 2.15% -0.38%
2044 8,365,171 91,305 2.11% -0.37%
2045 8,538,521 90,952 2.07% -0.39%
2046 8,713,247 90,573 2.05% -0.42%
2047 8,888,466 90,175 2.01% -0.44%
2048 9,064,207 89,769 1.98% -0.45%
2049 9,240,169 89,362 1.94% -0.45%
2050 9,415,589 88,939 1.9% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mauritania increased by 1,026,900 people (a 34.9% growth), while Saint Vincent lost 5,490 people (a 4.88% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mauritania gained 1,466,583 (a 37% growth), while Saint Vincent's population decreased by -7,040 (a 6.58% decline).

Mauritania was ranked 133rd most populous country in 2005 and is 123rd in 2025. Saint Vincent was ranked 180th in 2005 and ranked 184th 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 Saint Vincent will decrease by 11% to 88,939 people and rank change from 184th to 186th.

Biggest cities by population

Mauritania
City Population
Nouakchott 1.08M
Rosso 33.5K
Saint Vincent
City Population
Kingstown 12.9K
Georgetown 1.68K

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