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Slavery practices exist also within the sub-Saharan African ethnic groups of the south. In 2012, a government minister stated that slavery "no longer exists" in Mauritania. [121] However, according to the Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index, there were an estimated 90,000 enslaved people in Mauritania in 2018, or around 2% of the ...
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Mauritania" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bafour;
The Beidane people comprise roughly 30 percent of the population, [3] making them the largest ethnic minority. Haratines (Black Moors) make up roughly 40 percent of the population and constitute the ethnic plurality. [3] The remaining 30 percent are "Sub-Saharan Mauritanians," according to the 2023 CIA World Factbook entry on Mauritania. [3]
According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [2] [3], the total population was 4,614,974 in 2021, compared to only 657 000 in 1950.The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 39.9%, 57.4% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.7% was 65 years or older.
The Haratin form an ethnic group distinct from Arab and Tuareg populations, as well as from the contemporary ethnic groups of sub-Saharan Africa. [12] [15] [16] In Mauritania, however, where there are nearly 1.5 million Haratin, they have developed a separate sense of ethnic identity. [8]
Predominantly Muslims, the Soninke were one of the early ethnic groups from West Africa to convert to Islam in about the 10th century. [8] The contemporary population of Soninke people is estimated to be over 2 million. [9] The cultural practices of Soninke people are similar to the Mandé peoples, and those of the Imraguen of Mauritania.
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).