Mauritania vs Senegal: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Mauritania
- Senegal
How they compare
Mauritania currently reports 2,933 ha against 2,490 ha in Senegal, a difference of 443 ha.
That makes Mauritania's figure about 1.2 times Senegal's.
The two have swapped places 9 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Senegal ahead.
Mauritania ranks 56th and Senegal ranks 57th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Mauritania averaged higher in 6 and Senegal in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Mauritania | Senegal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,111 ha | 2,916 ha | 805.33 ha | Senegal |
| 1970s | 3,700 ha | 2,248 ha | 1,452 ha | Mauritania |
| 1980s | 2,160 ha | 1,376 ha | 784.4 ha | Mauritania |
| 1990s | 2,157 ha | 935.1 ha | 1,222 ha | Mauritania |
| 2000s | 2,188 ha | 2,087 ha | 100.7 ha | Mauritania |
| 2010s | 2,640 ha | 1,498 ha | 1,143 ha | Mauritania |
| 2020s | 2,913 ha | 2,412 ha | 501 ha | Mauritania |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Mauritania or Senegal?
- Mauritania, at 2,933 ha against 2,490 ha in Senegal as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Mauritania and Senegal?
- 443 ha, with Mauritania 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 sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Mauritania ranks 56th and Senegal ranks 57th of 113 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sweet potatoes — 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.