Mauritania - Services, value added (annual % growth)

The value for Services, value added (annual % growth) in Mauritania was -1.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 116.48 in 1969 and a minimum value of -37.94 in 1972.

Definition: Annual growth rate for value added in services based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2010 U.S. dollars. Services correspond to ISIC divisions 50-99. They include value added in wholesale and retail trade (including hotels and restaurants), transport, and government, financial, professional, and personal services such as education, health care, and real estate services. Also included are imputed bank service charges, import duties, and any statistical discrepancies noted by national compilers as well as discrepancies arising from rescaling. Value added is the net output of a sector after adding up all outputs and subtracting intermediate inputs. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or depletion and degradation of natural resources. The industrial origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3 or 4.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

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Year Value
1965 111.35
1966 -4.74
1967 -15.13
1968 -6.08
1969 116.48
1970 76.20
1971 17.47
1972 -37.94
1973 16.49
1974 11.99
1975 30.28
1976 10.42
1977 4.68
1978 3.26
1979 -0.13
1980 10.65
1981 -4.00
1982 -10.25
1983 1.16
1984 -12.54
1985 -21.27
1986 23.44
1987 22.87
1988 -0.04
1989 3.94
1990 -1.79
1991 -0.76
1992 -1.33
1993 -2.61
1994 12.72
1995 -3.29
1996 5.04
1997 25.55
1998 6.36
1999 6.47
2000 10.40
2001 2.84
2002 2.44
2003 11.97
2004 -0.70
2005 2.29
2006 18.54
2007 4.72
2008 5.52
2009 6.70
2010 5.20
2011 6.42
2012 2.54
2013 4.76
2014 10.56
2015 5.00
2016 0.42
2017 11.51
2018 5.49
2019 6.17
2020 -1.45

Development Relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions.

Limitations and Exceptions: In the services industries, including most of government, value added in constant prices is often imputed from labor inputs, such as real wages or number of employees. In the absence of well defined measures of output, measuring the growth of services remains difficult.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) represents the sum of value added by all its producers. Value added is the value of the gross output of producers less the value of intermediate goods and services consumed in production, before accounting for consumption of fixed capital in production. The United Nations System of National Accounts calls for value added to be valued at either basic prices (excluding net taxes on products) or producer prices (including net taxes on products paid by producers but excluding sales or value added taxes). Both valuations exclude transport charges that are invoiced separately by producers. Total GDP is measured at purchaser prices. Value added by industry is normally measured at basic prices.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts