Does Mauritania have mandatory military service?

No conscription

No conscription

Mauritania is one of 123 countries classified “No conscription” for military conscription — 64% of the 192 with data. (Also searched as the draft, national service.)

Source

Taken from
Wikipedia: Conscription
Last checked
15 September 2026
How it was classified
Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.

Nearby countries

Senegal
Active conscription
The Gambia
No conscription
Guinea-Bissau
Active conscription
Mali
Active conscription
Guinea
No conscription
Sierra Leone
No conscription

Other laws in Mauritania

Death Penalty
Not used in practice

Every law in Mauritania → · Which countries have mandatory military service? →

A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.