Mauritania vs Zimbabwe: Number of adults with no formal education by region

Mauritania
704,800 people
in 2100
Zimbabwe
834,400 people
in 2100
Mauritania rank
31st
Zimbabwe rank
29th

Number of adults with no formal education by region over time

  • Mauritania
  • Zimbabwe
0500.0k1.0M1.5M195020252100

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 834,400 people against 704,800 people in Mauritania, a difference of 129,600 people.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.2 times Mauritania's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 18 shared years of data; in 2015 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 31st and Zimbabwe ranks 29th of 200 countries.

Across the 10 decades both report, Mauritania averaged higher in 8 and Zimbabwe in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Mauritania Zimbabwe Difference Ahead
2010s 1.27 million people 675,000 people 592,900 people Mauritania
2020s 1.43 million people 747,300 people 682,550 people Mauritania
2030s 1.59 million people 862,250 people 727,900 people Mauritania
2040s 1.65 million people 961,250 people 692,250 people Mauritania
2050s 1.62 million people 1.03 million people 585,800 people Mauritania
2060s 1.49 million people 1.06 million people 432,050 people Mauritania
2070s 1.31 million people 1.05 million people 263,950 people Mauritania
2080s 1.09 million people 987,350 people 107,450 people Mauritania
2090s 869,600 people 902,650 people 33,050 people Zimbabwe
2100s 704,800 people 834,400 people 129,600 people Zimbabwe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher number of adults with no formal education by region, Mauritania or Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe, at 834,400 people against 704,800 people in Mauritania as of 2100.
What is the difference in number of adults with no formal education by region between Mauritania and Zimbabwe?
129,600 people, with Zimbabwe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mauritania and Zimbabwe?
18 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2100.
How do Mauritania and Zimbabwe rank globally for number of adults with no formal education by region?
Mauritania ranks 31st and Zimbabwe ranks 29th of 200 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Wittgenstein Centre (2024) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Number of adults with no formal education by region. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Mauritania vs Zimbabwe: Number of adults with no formal education by region. Statizoid, drawing on Wittgenstein Centre (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 17 September 2026, from https://education.statizoid.com/compare/total-number-of-people-aged-15-with-no-education-in-millions-by-continent-1970-2050/mauritania/zimbabwe/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://education.statizoid.com/compare/total-number-of-people-aged-15-with-no-education-in-millions-by-continent-1970-2050/mauritania/zimbabwe/">Mauritania vs Zimbabwe: Number of adults with no formal education by region</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Number of adults with no formal education by region
Unit
people
Source
Wittgenstein Centre (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
200 places, 6,005 data points, 1950–2100
Last refreshed

De facto population aged 15+ withno education in a country or region.