Benin vs Mauritania: Sorghum — Area harvested
Sorghum — Area harvested over time
- Benin
- Mauritania
How they compare
Mauritania currently reports 240,000 ha against 212,347 ha in Benin, a difference of 27,653 ha.
That makes Mauritania's figure about 1.1 times Benin's.
The two have swapped places 20 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Mauritania ahead.
Benin ranks 30th and Mauritania ranks 28th of 120 countries.
Mauritania has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Mauritania | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 109,168 ha | 222,322 ha | 113,154 ha | Mauritania |
| 1970s | 90,657 ha | 126,840 ha | 36,183 ha | Mauritania |
| 1980s | 110,395 ha | 124,452 ha | 14,057 ha | Mauritania |
| 1990s | 146,854 ha | 166,055 ha | 19,202 ha | Mauritania |
| 2000s | 163,419 ha | 164,152 ha | 732.9 ha | Mauritania |
| 2010s | 134,500 ha | 169,751 ha | 35,252 ha | Mauritania |
| 2020s | 155,807 ha | 204,400 ha | 48,593 ha | Mauritania |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sorghum — area harvested, Benin or Mauritania?
- Mauritania, at 240,000 ha against 212,347 ha in Benin as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sorghum — area harvested between Benin and Mauritania?
- 27,653 ha, with Mauritania ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Mauritania?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Benin and Mauritania rank globally for sorghum — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 30th and Mauritania ranks 28th of 120 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sorghum — 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.