1986 Edition
CIA World Factbook 1986 (Internet Archive)
Geography
Agriculture
most Mauritanians are nomads or subsistence farmers; main products — livestock, cereals, vegetables, dates; cash crops — gum arabic
Electric power
131,000 kW capacity (1985); 114 million kWh produced (1985), 68 kWh per capita
Exports
$275 million (f.o.b., 1984); iron ore, processed fish, and small amounts of gum arabic and gypsum; also unrecorded but numerically significant cattle exports to
Fishing
catch, 353,800 metric tons (1983)
GNP
about $730 million (1982 est), $460 per capita
Major industries
mining of iron ore and gypsum, fish processing
Member of
AfDB, AIOEC, Arab League, CEAO, CIPEC (associate), EAMA, EIB (associate), FAO, G-77, GATT, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDE — Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IPU, ITU, NAM, OAU, QIC, OM VS (Organization for the Development of the Senegal River Valley), UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO Economy
Natural resources
iron ore, gypsum, fish