Mauritania Oil

Oil Reserves in Mauritania (2025)

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Mauritania holds 20,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves as of 2025, ranking #82 in the world and accounting for about 0.0011% of the world's total oil reserves of 1,765,151,568,000.

Mauritania has proven reserves equivalent to 1.8 times its annual consumption levels (based on 2024 data). This means that, without net exports, there would be about 2 years of oil left (at 2024 consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

History of Oil Reserves in Mauritania

Oil Consumption in Mauritania (2024)

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• Mauritania consumes 30,550 barrels per day (B/d) of oil as of the year 2024.
• Mauritania ranks #127 in the world for oil consumption, accounting for about 0.030% of the world's total consumption of 102,559,503 barrels per day.
• Mauritania consumes 0.25 gallons of oil per capita every day (based on the 2024 population of 5,169,395 people), or 91 gallons per capita per year (2 barrels). [1 barrel = 42 US Gallons]

Oil Exports (2018)

• In 2018, Mauritania exported of its oil production (4,836 barrels per day out of produced).