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Mauritania

Mauritania has a Calm pressure reading, in the middle half.

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54 / 100

#91 of 206

Chance of a conflict escalation in Mauritania in November or December 2026: <0.1% · remote

Chance of a conflict escalation in Mauritania in November or December 2026

Government attribution notice published 26 October 2026

What counts
In November or December 2026, organised violence on the territory of Mauritania, or with Mauritania as an active party, must cause at least 25 battle-related deaths in a calendar month and at least twice the monthly average of the preceding three months. A conflict continuing at a steady high intensity does not meet this escalation threshold.
Months measured
the whole of November 2026 and the whole of December 2026.
Decided by
UCDP Candidate Events data (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), best estimate of battle-related deaths, monthly release. The question will be resolved by 5 Feb 2027 if the required UCDP data are available.
Resolution convention
For records spanning calendar months, deaths are allocated in proportion to inclusive calendar days. Events not assigned to a territory under the frozen UCDP place table are excluded from both the target month's total and the average of its preceding three months. Active party means the country's government is coded as a side by UCDP. Certain active-party attribution is retained, and each event is counted once per country.
Published
25 Oct 2026
Our estimate
<0.1% · remote
If data are unavailable
If the required UCDP data are unavailable by 5 Feb 2027, the question is recorded as Unresolved.

Earlier issues in the forecast record

22 Oct 2026 · October or November 2026

24 Oct 2026 · November or December 2026

Population5.3M
CapitalNouakchott
Area1M km²
GDP$11.7B (2025)
CurrencyMRU
LanguagesArabic
Armed forces21k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
17.81
L3 Politics
62.25
L4 Events
62.4
L5 Information
73.04
L6 Society
61.5

Layer readings: method v1.1, from each layer's documented record, same 0-100 scale as country score. Snapshot 28 Oct 2026.

Since 1946

Highest decade mean 84.6 (1980s); lowest 63.7 (2020-2025).

Details

Recorded events 44 · Country record

  • 2024election
  • 1 Jan 2023external support
  • 2023election
  • 2019election
  • 1 Dec 2017external support
  • 2014election
  • 2013election
  • 1 Mar 2010external support
  • 9 Jan 2009street pressure
  • 2009election
  • 2007election
  • 1 Dec 2006external support
Show all 44
  • 2006election
  • 1 Jul 2003external support
  • 2003election
  • 2001election
  • 1 Jul 1999external support
  • 1998currency stress
  • 1 Jan 1997capital controls
  • 1997election
  • 1996election
  • 1 Jan 1995external support
  • 1993currency stress
  • 1 Dec 1992external support
  • 18 Jan 1992street pressure
  • 1 Jan 1992capital controls
  • 1992election
  • Apr 1989conflict escalation
  • 1 Jan 1988capital controls
  • 1 May 1985external support
  • 1985currency stress
  • 1978conflict escalation
  • 1977conflict escalation
  • 1976election
  • 1976conflict escalation
  • 1975conflict escalation
  • 1 Jan 1971capital controls
  • 1971sovereign stress
  • 1971election
  • 1969sovereign stress
  • 1966election
  • 1961election
  • 1958conflict escalation
  • 1957conflict escalation

public country snapshot archive, frozen 10 July 2026. The chart shows mapped historical scores through 2025, with bands at 55, 65 and 80. The 2026 snapshot uses a separate score scale. Its archived crisis category is independent of that number. No numerical change from 2025 to 2026 is implied.

Mauritania · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
194678.7Strainarchive reading
194778.7Strainarchive reading
194878.7Strainarchive reading
194959.8Watcharchive reading
195082.9Crisisarchive reading
195182.9Crisisarchive reading
195282.8Crisisarchive reading
195382.7Crisisarchive reading
195482.7Crisisarchive reading
195582.6Crisisarchive reading
195683.0Crisisarchive reading
195780.2Crisisarchive reading
195880.1Crisisarchive reading
195981.9Crisisarchive reading
196080.9Crisisarchive reading
196184.9Crisisarchive reading
196269.0Strainarchive reading
196367.2Strainarchive reading
196465.4Strainarchive reading
196565.2Strainarchive reading
196665.0Strainarchive reading
196764.5Watcharchive reading
196863.4Watcharchive reading
196985.6Crisisarchive reading
197062.1Watcharchive reading
197172.5Strainarchive reading
197272.4Strainarchive reading
197384.1Crisisarchive reading
197471.9Strainarchive reading
197573.3Strainarchive reading
197673.2Strainarchive reading
197781.4Crisisarchive reading
197889.4Crisisarchive reading
197988.4Crisisarchive reading
198088.2Crisisarchive reading
198184.6Crisisarchive reading
198295.0Crisisarchive reading
198382.3Crisisarchive reading
198495.0Crisisarchive reading
198583.0Crisisarchive reading
198682.9Crisisarchive reading
198782.9Crisisarchive reading
198882.7Crisisarchive reading
198969.1Strainarchive reading
199074.5Strainarchive reading
199176.0Strainarchive reading
199264.9Watcharchive reading
199371.4Strainarchive reading
199471.3Strainarchive reading
199584.2Crisisarchive reading
199671.2Strainarchive reading
199782.6Crisisarchive reading
199871.6Strainarchive reading
199974.8Strainarchive reading
200083.9Crisisarchive reading
200182.0Crisisarchive reading
200271.0Strainarchive reading
200370.9Strainarchive reading
200469.5Strainarchive reading
200587.2Crisisarchive reading
200687.5Crisisarchive reading
200783.1Crisisarchive reading
200882.0Crisisarchive reading
200975.0Strainarchive reading
201087.0Crisisarchive reading
201171.5Strainarchive reading
201273.3Strainarchive reading
201376.8Strainarchive reading
201477.7Strainarchive reading
201577.0Strainarchive reading
201681.2Crisisarchive reading
201778.3Strainarchive reading
201878.5Strainarchive reading
201963.4Watcharchive reading
202062.9Watcharchive reading
202172.0Strainarchive reading
202271.6Strainarchive reading
202362.9Watcharchive reading
202456.9Watcharchive reading
202555.7Watcharchive reading
Mauritania · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202654.0Calmarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Brazil, 1958

Details

BRA, 1958

Published archive distance 0.2091. This similarity is not a forecast.

JOR, 1963

Published archive distance 0.2119. This similarity is not a forecast.

SGP, 1974

Published archive distance 0.2354. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 27 Aug 2026, 1 field.

Details
Country change history for Mauritania
CycleDateFields changedLayer distance from baselineRecord
date unavailable2026-10-280Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
17 Oct 20262026-10-170Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
6 Oct 20262026-10-060Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
25 Sep 20262026-09-250Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
14 Sep 20262026-09-140Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
4 Sep 20262026-09-040Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
27 Aug 20262026-08-271Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-142Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · Information: 1 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
2 Aug 20262026-08-020Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
29 Jul 20262026-07-29T13:40:26Z1Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
10 Jul 20262026-07-10T00:30:00Z0Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
🟢 Calm <55🟡 Watch 55-<65🟠 Strain 65-<80🔴 Crisis 80-100

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026 · Public country snapshot · Data notices

Technical detail

Field sources carry their own dates (shown in each detail).

Record support

How well documented each layer of this country's record is (share of confirmed and sourced fields). Not a pressure reading.

L1 Identity60%
L2 Economy63%
L3 Politics74%
L4 Events76%
L5 Information50%
L6 Society100%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 1Confidence 71.7

Mauritania in this snapshot

Mauritania (MRT) records Calm pressure at 54.0 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is drifting; its numbered pressure band is 1. The source confidence score is 71.7.

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026. Dataset published 2026-11-05T08:17:49Z. Source: public country snapshot public country index.

5 public layer readings; 0 mapped pressure points in this dated snapshot; 11 country change records; 81 archive readings. Identity is descriptive; absent readings are named beside each layer.

Mauritania has pressure score 54/100 in Calm. 90 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 14 share this score. Its competition rank is 91. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Kyrgyzstan (KGZ), 54/100, tied; Philippines (PHL), 54/100, tied.

Mauritania's highest decade mean is recorded in 1980-1989 (10 readings, mean 84.6). The lowest is 2020-2025 (6 readings, mean 63.7). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Mauritania: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1946-194947459.878.70
1950-19591082.280.18310
1960-19691071.163.485.63
1970-19791076.962.189.44
1980-19891084.669.1959
1990-19991074.264.984.22
2000-20091079.269.587.56
2010-20191076.563.4872
2020-2025663.755.7720

Across 80 annual readings (1946-2025), Mauritania's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1982, 1984; the minimum is 55.7 in 2025.

Every published year for Mauritania, 1946-2025, is at or above the historical threshold 55: 80 of 80 readings.

Mauritania is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 70 of 80 readings: 1946-1948, 1950-1966, 1969, 1971-1991, 1993-2018, 2021-2022. The remaining 10 are below 65.

Mauritania is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 36 of 80 readings: 1950-1961, 1969, 1973, 1977-1988, 1995, 1997, 2000-2001, 2005-2008, 2010, 2016. The remaining 44 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Mauritania is 2022 to 2023: Strain (71.6) to Watch (62.9). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Mauritania records no changed fields against the previous measured cycle at date unavailable (2026-10-28); previous cycle: 17 Oct 2026. Layer counts are distances from baseline, not cycle-change components.

Pressure point readings and their own snapshot date are shown in Pressure points.

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