صحافة بلادي صحيفة إلكترونية مغاربية متجددة على مدار الساعة تعنى بشؤون المغرب الجزائر ليبيا موريتانيا تونس
Nouakchott –The Mauritanian government announced a decline in the monetary poverty rate to 25.7% in 2025, compared to 28.2% in 2019, based on the preliminary results of the permanent survey on the living conditions of families, considering that the indicators reflect an improvement in the levels of income, spending, and living conditions.
According to official data, the average annual household expenditure increased from 189,455 ouguiya in 2019 to 232,204 ouguiya in 2025, and the extreme poverty rate decreased from 12.8% to 11.2%, while the depth of poverty decreased from 7.6% to 6.4%.
The government believes that economic growth was the main driver of this improvement, stressing that about 82% of the recorded decrease in poverty is due to improved family incomes, with support and redistribution mechanisms contributing to strengthening this path.
However, these numbers raise questions about the extent to which they reflect the daily reality of citizens, especially in light of continuing complaints related to the high costs of living and prices of basic materials, in addition to the continued concentration of poverty in rural areas, which the government itself has acknowledged.
Observers also believe that evaluating the effectiveness of social policies is not limited to monetary poverty indicators alone, but also requires measuring the quality of basic services, employment opportunities, and the level of real income after accounting for the impact of inflation, in addition to reducing spatial differences between cities and rural areas.
The survey, in its initial form, remains a statistical indicator whose final results need to be completed and compared with independent indicators, to form a more comprehensive picture of the development of the standard of living of Mauritanian families and the extent to which various groups benefit from the fruits of economic growth.
Source:“My press”
