4. Mauritania
LPI Infrastructure Score: 1.54
Mauritania is another West African country, and like Laos, Mauritania was also part of the French colonial empire. However, unlike Laos Mauritania did not achieve independence till the 1960s. The country is the eleventh largest in all of Africa, but most of the country is covered in arid dessert, thus making communication extremely difficult. This also led to a rise in crime and slavery is still rampant in Mauritania.

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