Botswana vs Mauritania: Maize (corn) — Area harvested
Maize (corn) — Area harvested over time
- Botswana
- Mauritania
How they compare
Botswana currently reports 30,000 ha against 28,000 ha in Mauritania, a difference of 2,000 ha.
That makes Botswana's figure about 1.1 times Mauritania's.
The two have swapped places 11 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Mauritania ahead.
Botswana ranks 112th and Mauritania ranks 115th of 182 countries.
Botswana has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Botswana | Mauritania | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,079 ha | 6,211 ha | 9,868 ha | Botswana |
| 1970s | 43,580 ha | 7,410 ha | 36,170 ha | Botswana |
| 1980s | 25,990 ha | 5,875 ha | 20,115 ha | Botswana |
| 1990s | 43,763 ha | 9,218 ha | 34,545 ha | Botswana |
| 2000s | 49,428 ha | 17,313 ha | 32,116 ha | Botswana |
| 2010s | 61,100 ha | 19,582 ha | 41,518 ha | Botswana |
| 2020s | 65,807 ha | 24,800 ha | 41,007 ha | Botswana |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher maize (corn) — area harvested, Botswana or Mauritania?
- Botswana, at 30,000 ha against 28,000 ha in Mauritania as of 2024.
- What is the difference in maize (corn) — area harvested between Botswana and Mauritania?
- 2,000 ha, with Botswana ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Botswana and Mauritania?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Botswana and Mauritania rank globally for maize (corn) — area harvested?
- Botswana ranks 112th and Mauritania ranks 115th of 182 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Maize (corn) — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.