Statizoid

Costa Rica vs Mauritania: Population

Costa Rica
5.11 million people
in 2023
Mauritania
5.02 million people
in 2023
Costa Rica rank
125th
Mauritania rank
127th

Population over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 5.11 million people against 5.02 million people in Mauritania, a difference of 83,090 people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 125th and Mauritania ranks 127th of 238 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Population
Unit
people
Source
HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
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Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.