Mauritania vs Nicaragua: Cereals, primary — Area harvested

Mauritania
370,911 ha
in 2024
Nicaragua
350,425 ha
in 2023
Mauritania rank
99th
Nicaragua rank
103rd

Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time

  • Mauritania
  • Nicaragua
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How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 370,911 ha against 350,425 ha in Nicaragua, a difference of 20,486 ha.

That makes Mauritania's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 99th and Nicaragua ranks 103rd of 178 countries.

Nicaragua has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Mauritania Nicaragua Difference Ahead
1960s 262,890 ha 275,458 ha 12,568 ha Nicaragua
1970s 155,287 ha 302,433 ha 147,146 ha Nicaragua
1980s 149,204 ha 279,444 ha 130,240 ha Nicaragua
1990s 210,280 ha 338,368 ha 128,089 ha Nicaragua
2000s 212,117 ha 477,807 ha 265,691 ha Nicaragua
2010s 248,996 ha 456,472 ha 207,476 ha Nicaragua
2020s 309,771 ha 386,097 ha 76,326 ha Nicaragua

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, Mauritania or Nicaragua?
Mauritania, at 370,911 ha against 350,425 ha in Nicaragua as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between Mauritania and Nicaragua?
20,486 ha, with Mauritania ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mauritania and Nicaragua?
63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
How do Mauritania and Nicaragua rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
Mauritania ranks 99th and Nicaragua ranks 103rd of 178 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cereals, primary — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Cereals, primary — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
226 places, 12,898 data points, 1961–2024
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.