Mauritania vs Namibia: Sovereign state

Mauritania

in 2025

Namibia

in 2025

Mauritania rank

1st

Namibia rank

1st

Sovereign state over time

Mauritania currently reports 1 against 1 in Namibia, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 210 shared years of data; in 1816 it was Namibia ahead.

Mauritania ranks 1st and Namibia ranks 1st of 194 countries.

Indicator: Sovereign state
Source: Gleditsch and Ward (2007) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 194 places, 40,740 data points, 1816–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The country is identified as a sovereign state by Gleditsch and Ward dataset.