Madar (Nouakchott) - Final results of the 2025-2026 permanent survey on household living conditions, carried out by the national statistics agency ANSADE, show Mauritania's monetary poverty rate fell from 28.2% in 2019 to 25.7% in 2025 and extreme poverty from 12.8% to 11.2%, economy and development minister Mohamedou Ahmedou M'Haimid said on Monday, November 2, 2026, according to the Mauritanian News Agency.
Opening a workshop on the results in Nouakchott, the minister said the decline came in a difficult international context marked by an inflationary wave in which consumer prices rose 30.6% and food prices 42.6%, with government support for households softening the impact. Multidimensional poverty fell four points, from 58.7% to 54.7%, with early signs of lower inequality, he said.
In education, the gross primary enrolment rate rose from 79.9% to 96.1% and secondary from 31.9% to 36.8%. In health, births attended by skilled staff rose from 73% to 82.7%, and the share of the population with health insurance almost doubled, from 6.4% to 11.9%.
Households with a tap inside their home rose from 39.4% in 2019 to 52.6% in 2025, the minister said, adding that these gains "should not hide the challenges that remain" and calling for the survey to guide the third action plan of the accelerated growth and shared prosperity strategy.
The results come as annual inflation reached 9.3% in September, according to ANSADE. The education and health ministers, the head of the Taazour agency and the World Bank's representative attended the workshop.
