Mauritania vs Papua New Guinea: Equal Resource Distribution Index

Mauritania

0.198

in 2025

Papua New Guinea

0.197

in 2025

Mauritania rank

153rd

Papua New Guinea rank

154th

Equal Resource Distribution Index over time

Mauritania
Papua New Guinea

How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 0.198 against 0.197 in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 0.001.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 122 shared years of data; in 1904 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 153rd and Papua New Guinea ranks 154th of 175 countries.

Individual pages

Equal Resource Distribution Index in Mauritania
Equal Resource Distribution Index in Papua New Guinea
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Equal Resource Distribution Index
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 175 places, 20,802 data points, 1900–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Central estimate of the extent to which all social groups benefit from public spending and have equal access to education, healthcare, and the welfare state.