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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mauritania was 5,169,395 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mauritania's population is 5,432,542 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Taiwan's population is 4.29 times bigger than Mauritania's.
  • Mauritania is ranked the 123rd most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.35% of the world: 0.07% for Mauritania vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Mauritania has had an average growth rate of +3% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mauritania has increased from 2.94M people to 5.43M (84.8% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Mauritania is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 17.1M people, while Taiwan's population already peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and is projected to decrease to 10.1M people by 2100.

Mauritania vs Taiwan: live population counter

Mauritania Taiwan
Current population
5432542
23308308
Population rank 123/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.28%
One net population change
3.58 minutes
7.75 minutes
One birth every
3.04 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
19 minutes
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
4.01 hours
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change -2,185 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +403 +186
Annual growth/decline +146,954 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +2.93% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 18/197 150/197

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

Mauritania
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mauritania Taiwan Mauritania Taiwan
1960 824,298 - - -
1961 846,167 11,030,385 2.65% -
1962 869,184 11,392,513 2.72% 3.28%
1963 893,423 11,762,101 2.79% 3.24%
1964 918,955 12,137,143 2.86% 3.19%
1965 945,838 12,511,863 2.93% 3.09%
1966 974,157 12,874,153 2.99% 2.9%
1967 1,003,843 13,210,344 3.05% 2.61%
1968 1,034,739 13,548,537 3.08% 2.56%
1969 1,066,754 14,068,984 3.09% 3.84%
1970 1,099,806 14,582,944 3.1% 3.65%
1971 1,133,702 14,913,564 3.08% 2.27%
1972 1,168,355 15,220,495 3.06% 2.06%
1973 1,203,838 15,505,121 3.04% 1.87%
1974 1,240,188 15,784,817 3.02% 1.8%
1975 1,277,330 16,075,128 2.99% 1.84%
1976 1,315,336 16,401,413 2.98% 2.03%
1977 1,353,768 16,730,895 2.92% 2.01%
1978 1,392,713 17,042,272 2.88% 1.86%
1979 1,432,758 17,372,779 2.88% 1.94%
1980 1,474,043 17,704,538 2.88% 1.91%
1981 1,516,877 18,029,982 2.91% 1.84%
1982 1,561,176 18,354,855 2.92% 1.8%
1983 1,606,746 18,653,146 2.92% 1.63%
1984 1,653,693 18,929,866 2.92% 1.48%
1985 1,702,107 19,191,510 2.93% 1.38%
1986 1,751,835 19,411,454 2.92% 1.15%
1987 1,803,014 19,617,046 2.92% 1.06%
1988 1,855,859 19,839,704 2.93% 1.14%
1989 1,903,048 20,055,492 2.54% 1.09%
1990 1,951,878 20,278,946 2.57% 1.11%
1991 2,009,738 20,503,568 2.96% 1.11%
1992 2,088,135 20,704,227 3.9% 0.98%
1993 2,174,328 20,899,019 4.13% 0.94%
1994 2,249,454 21,086,645 3.46% 0.9%
1995 2,312,017 21,267,653 2.78% 0.86%
1996 2,358,188 21,441,432 2% 0.82%
1997 2,411,306 21,634,124 2.25% 0.9%
1998 2,474,651 21,835,703 2.63% 0.93%
1999 2,541,698 22,010,489 2.71% 0.8%
2000 2,613,441 22,184,530 2.82% 0.79%
2001 2,678,760 22,341,120 2.5% 0.71%
2002 2,738,655 22,463,172 2.24% 0.55%
2003 2,802,046 22,562,663 2.31% 0.44%
2004 2,868,664 22,646,836 2.38% 0.37%
2005 2,939,059 22,729,753 2.45% 0.37%
2006 3,013,660 22,823,455 2.54% 0.41%
2007 3,093,059 22,917,444 2.63% 0.41%
2008 3,183,269 22,997,696 2.92% 0.35%
2009 3,284,448 23,078,402 3.18% 0.35%
2010 3,390,965 23,140,948 3.24% 0.27%
2011 3,502,811 23,193,518 3.3% 0.23%
2012 3,619,034 23,270,367 3.32% 0.33%
2013 3,734,318 23,344,670 3.19% 0.32%
2014 3,848,514 23,403,635 3.06% 0.25%
2015 3,965,959 23,462,914 3.05% 0.25%
2016 4,086,657 23,515,945 3.04% 0.23%
2017 4,210,600 23,555,522 3.03% 0.17%
2018 4,337,685 23,580,080 3.02% 0.1%
2019 4,467,708 23,596,027 3% 0.07%
2020 4,600,131 23,582,179 2.96% -0.06%
2021 4,734,874 23,468,275 2.93% -0.48%
2022 4,875,637 23,319,977 2.97% -0.63%
2023 5,022,441 23,342,541 3.01% 0.1%
2024 5,169,395 23,410,331 2.93% 0.29%
2025 5,315,063 23,308,308 2.82% -0.44%
2026 5,461,313 23,205,944 2.75% -0.44%
2027 5,608,785 23,102,120 2.7% -0.45%
2028 5,757,952 22,996,693 2.66% -0.46%
2029 5,909,186 22,890,335 2.63% -0.46%
2030 6,062,523 22,781,040 2.59% -0.48%
2031 6,217,791 22,667,327 2.56% -0.5%
2032 6,374,839 22,549,689 2.53% -0.52%
2033 6,533,828 22,428,721 2.49% -0.54%
2034 6,694,445 22,302,402 2.46% -0.56%
2035 6,856,314 22,170,689 2.42% -0.59%
2036 7,019,227 22,034,775 2.38% -0.61%
2037 7,183,105 21,893,029 2.33% -0.64%
2038 7,348,357 21,746,001 2.3% -0.67%
2039 7,514,734 21,594,236 2.26% -0.7%
2040 7,681,907 21,436,947 2.22% -0.73%
2041 7,850,210 21,274,187 2.19% -0.76%
2042 8,020,480 21,105,682 2.17% -0.79%
2043 8,192,542 20,932,105 2.15% -0.82%
2044 8,365,171 20,754,623 2.11% -0.85%
2045 8,538,521 20,571,741 2.07% -0.88%
2046 8,713,247 20,384,903 2.05% -0.91%
2047 8,888,466 20,194,425 2.01% -0.93%
2048 9,064,207 19,999,753 1.98% -0.96%
2049 9,240,169 19,801,293 1.94% -0.99%
2050 9,415,589 19,598,997 1.9% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mauritania increased by 1,026,900 people (a 34.9% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mauritania gained 1,466,583 (a 37% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Mauritania was ranked 133rd most populous country in 2005 and is 123rd in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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