Mauritania vs Niger: Annual precipitation

Mauritania
55.55 millimeters
in 2025
Niger
71.17 millimeters
in 2025
Mauritania rank
186th
Niger rank
183rd

Annual precipitation over time

  • Mauritania
  • Niger
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How they compare

Niger currently reports 71.17 millimeters against 55.55 millimeters in Mauritania, a difference of 15.61 millimeters.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.3 times Mauritania's.

The two have swapped places 29 times across 86 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 186th and Niger ranks 183rd of 192 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual precipitation
Unit
millimeters
Source
Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
192 places, 16,512 data points, 1940–2025
Last refreshed

Total annual precipitation—rain and snow—calculated as the sum of daily averages, reported as the depth of water falling to Earth's surface, excluding fog and dew.