Mauritania - Services, value added (% of GDP)

Services, value added (% of GDP) in Mauritania was 42.46 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 59 years was 46.49 in 2015, while its lowest value was 30.19 in 1968.

Definition: Services correspond to ISIC divisions 50-99 and 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.

See also:

Year Value
1961 32.12
1962 36.44
1963 39.45
1964 38.05
1965 33.44
1966 31.52
1967 32.12
1968 30.19
1969 30.49
1970 32.67
1971 32.56
1972 36.72
1973 33.94
1974 32.87
1975 36.67
1976 37.66
1977 41.36
1978 44.07
1979 43.25
1980 44.89
1981 43.21
1982 44.92
1983 46.30
1984 45.99
1985 42.97
1986 41.74
1987 41.96
1988 41.18
1989 39.40
1990 41.89
1991 41.10
1992 41.91
1993 40.12
1994 40.85
1995 39.94
1996 40.59
1997 41.68
1998 35.98
1999 36.65
2000 40.37
2001 41.27
2002 42.06
2003 43.36
2004 42.85
2005 40.68
2006 34.08
2007 38.30
2008 39.24
2009 42.75
2010 39.95
2011 36.20
2012 38.87
2013 37.90
2014 44.36
2015 46.49
2016 43.88
2017 43.92
2018 43.39
2019 42.71
2020 42.46

Limitations and Exceptions: In the services industry the many self-employed workers and one-person businesses are sometimes difficult to locate, and they have little incentive to respond to surveys, let alone to report their full earnings. Compounding these problems are the many forms of economic activity that go unrecorded, including the work that women and children do for little or no pay.

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. Financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM) is an indirect measure of the value of financial intermediation services (i.e. output) provided but for which financial institutions do not charge explicitly as compared to explicit bank charges. Although the 1993 SNA recommends that the FISIM are allocated as intermediate and final consumption to the users, many countries still make a global (negative) adjustment to the sum of gross value added.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts