Is homosexuality legal in Mauritania?
Death penalty possible
Same-sex sexual activity is a criminal offence that can carry the death penalty.
Mauritania is one of 10 countries classified “Death penalty possible” for same-sex sexual activity — 4% of the 226 with data. (Also searched as homosexuality.)
Source
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- Senegal
- Illegal Same-sex sexual activity is a criminal offence.
- The Gambia
- Illegal Same-sex sexual activity is a criminal offence.
- Guinea-Bissau
- Legal Same-sex sexual activity is legal.
- Mali
- Illegal Same-sex sexual activity is a criminal offence.
- Guinea
- Illegal Same-sex sexual activity is a criminal offence.
- Sierra Leone
- Illegal Same-sex sexual activity is a criminal offence.
Other laws in Mauritania
- Sex Work
- Illegal
- Marriage Age
- 18+
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