France vs Mauritania: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?

France
21.88 million
in 2010
Mauritania
22.94 million
in 2010
France rank
40th
Mauritania rank
39th

Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time

  • France
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 22.94 million against 21.88 million in France, a difference of 1.07 million.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 1780 it was France ahead.

France ranks 40th and Mauritania ranks 39th of 179 countries.

Across the 24 decades both report, France averaged higher in 18 and Mauritania in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade France Mauritania Difference Ahead
1780s 30.68 million 2.65 million 28.03 million France
1790s 30.77 million 3.02 million 27.75 million France
1800s 30.85 million 3.44 million 27.41 million France
1810s 31.80 million 3.93 million 27.87 million France
1820s 32.54 million 4.49 million 28.04 million France
1830s 32.96 million 5.15 million 27.81 million France
1840s 33.58 million 5.89 million 27.69 million France
1850s 34.14 million 6.75 million 27.39 million France
1860s 34.16 million 7.73 million 26.43 million France
1870s 34.06 million 8.85 million 25.22 million France
1880s 34.29 million 10.13 million 24.17 million France
1890s 34.34 million 11.59 million 22.75 million France
1900s 34.28 million 13.26 million 21.02 million France
1910s 34.22 million 15.13 million 19.09 million France
1920s 32.81 million 17.22 million 15.59 million France
1930s 32.89 million 19.52 million 13.36 million France
1940s 31.79 million 21.98 million 9.81 million France
1950s 31.14 million 25.12 million 6.02 million France
1960s 32.36 million 36.78 million 4.42 million Mauritania
1970s 28.87 million 36.78 million 7.91 million Mauritania
1980s 27.63 million 36.75 million 9.13 million Mauritania
1990s 24.54 million 36.94 million 12.41 million Mauritania
2000s 21.98 million 22.90 million 923,500 Mauritania
2010s 21.88 million 22.94 million 1.07 million Mauritania

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, France or Mauritania?
Mauritania, at 22.94 million against 21.88 million in France as of 2010.
What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between France and Mauritania?
1.07 million, with Mauritania ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for France and Mauritania?
24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
How do France and Mauritania rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
France ranks 40th and Mauritania ranks 39th of 179 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Taylor and Rising, and United Nations (2021) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Has the world passed peak agricultural land?. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Source
Taylor and Rising, and United Nations (2021) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
179 places, 4,296 data points, 1780–2010
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Agricultural land is the sum of cropland and pasture used for grazing livestock. This is shown for three sources, which use different methods of estimation. While they disagree on how much land is used for agriculture, and the exact date that it peaked, they do all agree that we have passed the peak.