Mauritania's electricity generation rose from 0.4 in 2000 to 2.1 in 2024.
Mauritania's primary energy consumption rose from 13.7 in 1994 to 20.8 in 2023.
Mauritania · Energy
Generation, consumption, mix, dependence and intensity.
26 indicators · 25 with data
Electricity consumption per capita
kilowatt-hours per person
156th of 194 · 17th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mauritania's electricity consumption per capita rose from 160.7 kWh in 2000 to 400.4 kWh in 2024.
Mauritania's solar electricity generation rose from 0 in 2000 to 0.2 in 2024.
Mauritania's wind electricity generation rose from 0 in 2000 to 0.1 in 2024.
Mauritania's hydropower electricity generation rose from 0.0 in 2000 to 0.2 in 2024.
Mauritania's nuclear electricity generation was 0 in 2000 and 0 in 2024.
Mauritania's energy use per capita fell from 6,100.1 kWh in 1994 to 4,142.5 kWh in 2023.
Mauritania's renewable energy fell from 46.1 % in 1993 to 19.6 % in 2022.
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- Renewable electricityup +1.2 pts114th of 193
- Fossil fuel electricity sharedown −1.2 pts120th of 193
- Low-carbon electricity shareup +1.2 pts120th of 193
- Hydropower electricity shareup +0.1 pts97th of 190
- Nuclear electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts32nd of 191
- Solar electricity shareup +1.0 pts56th of 193
- Wind electricity shareup +0.0 pts49th of 191
- Coal electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 192
- Gas electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts117th of 190
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- Net electricity imports (% of demand)up +1.6 pts33rd of 194
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- Energy intensity of GDPup +7.7 %120th of 165
- Carbon intensity of electricitydown −1.8 %111th of 193
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- Access to electricity (% of population)up +1.9 pts200th of 215
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- Oil productiondown −7.6 %81st of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Energy importsNo data