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Mauritania
Mauritania requires a biometric ID card from age 16 and launched a selfie-based digital ID app (Houwiyeti). The central bank signed a CBDC exploration deal with Giesecke+Devrient in 2024.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Mauritania
- Program
- Biometric national ID card (ANRPTS); Houwiyeti digital ID app
- Status
- Available, partial uptake
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
- Law
- 2012 decree on the national ID card
A 2012 decree makes the ID card mandatory for Mauritanians aged 16 and over enrolled in the National Biometric Population Register. A TECH5 platform pilot with UNDP and the digital ministry led to the Houwiyeti app, which matches a selfie to an ID or e-passport for e-service login.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Research
In 2024 the Banque Centrale de Mauritanie signed a deal with Giesecke+Devrient for a joint CBDC investigation.
UN and WHO
How Mauritania has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 57.4 · rank 137 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 2
Sovereignty score
How the -1 adds up
- -1Prices carbon nationally (tax or emissions trading) source ↗
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.