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Christianity is a small minority in Mauritania.
In 2020, the estimated Christian population amount was only 0.23% of the population.[1] There are between 10,000 and 11,000 Christians in Mauritania in 2023, mostly foreign expatriates.[2][3]
All of the roughly 4,000 Catholics in Mauritania are within the country's only diocese, the Diocese of Nouakchott. In 2020, there were 11 priests and 34 nuns serving 5 parishes.[4]
There are several expatriate African churches in Mauritania, though there are no more than 200 Protestants in the country, including foreigners.
In spite of a strict law against evangelization, the Mauritanian Christian community has grown and there were estimated to be 400-1,000 ethnic Mauritanian Christians in 2010.[5] For a period of eight months the Miracle Channel, a Norwegian/Swedish Christian channel, broadcast clandestine Christian gatherings in the Mauritanian desert containing over 160 people.[6]