Mauritania vs Senegal: Sorghum — Area harvested
Sorghum — Area harvested over time
- Mauritania
- Senegal
How they compare
Senegal currently reports 260,000 ha against 240,000 ha in Mauritania, a difference of 20,000 ha.
That makes Senegal's figure about 1.1 times Mauritania's.
The two have swapped places 17 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Mauritania ahead.
Mauritania ranks 28th and Senegal ranks 25th of 120 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Mauritania averaged higher in 3 and Senegal in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Mauritania | Senegal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 222,322 ha | 121,911 ha | 100,411 ha | Mauritania |
| 1970s | 126,840 ha | 120,910 ha | 5,930 ha | Mauritania |
| 1980s | 124,452 ha | 128,782 ha | 4,330 ha | Senegal |
| 1990s | 166,055 ha | 155,569 ha | 10,486 ha | Mauritania |
| 2000s | 164,152 ha | 186,524 ha | 22,373 ha | Senegal |
| 2010s | 169,751 ha | 181,675 ha | 11,924 ha | Senegal |
| 2020s | 204,400 ha | 270,014 ha | 65,614 ha | Senegal |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sorghum — area harvested, Mauritania or Senegal?
- Senegal, at 260,000 ha against 240,000 ha in Mauritania as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sorghum — area harvested between Mauritania and Senegal?
- 20,000 ha, with Senegal ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Mauritania and Senegal?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Mauritania and Senegal rank globally for sorghum — area harvested?
- Mauritania ranks 28th and Senegal ranks 25th 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.