Purchasing Power Parity · Mauritania
Cost of living in 🇲🇷 Mauritania vs the United States
Mauritania has a US-relative price level of 0.319 (US = 1.0) — about 68% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2023.
What US salaries are worth in Mauritania
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $156,740 | $15,950 |
| $80,000 | $250,784 | $25,520 |
| $120,000 | $376,176 | $38,280 |
| $180,000 | $564,263 | $57,420 |
| $250,000 | $783,699 | $79,750 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Mauritania's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.319 2023
World Bank — GDP 0.306 2023
IMF (WEO) 0.306 2023
Penn World Table 0.332 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.339 2023
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Mauritania is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇬🇪 Georgia — price level 0.319
- 🇷🇺 Russia — price level 0.316
- 🇸🇷 Suriname — price level 0.322
- 🇰🇪 Kenya — price level 0.323
- 🇲🇱 Mali — price level 0.323
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Mauritania compared to the United States?
- Mauritania has a price level of 0.319 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 68% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2023.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Mauritania?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $313,480 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Mauritania; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $31,900.
- Where does the Mauritania cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.