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Mauritania

Overall Score, 2022

0.75
out of
5

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Overall Score
2022

Mauritania overall score is lower than the average score of its region, income group, and the global average. There is ample room for improvement in its cigarette tax system.

Component Score
2022

Mauritania scores poorly in cigarette price, affordability change, tax share, and tax structure. It would greatly benefit from higher cigarette prices, reducing the cigarette affordability, increasing the tax share of price, and improving the tax structure.

Scores Over Time

Mauritania's overall score slightly decreased in 2016, and then it remained constant until 2022. There was a failure to reduce the cigarette affordability over time.

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