Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Mauritania
Mauritania: Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply was 1,539 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Mauritania, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Mauritania is 1,539 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.8% on the previous year and up 4.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Mauritania peaked at 1,617 kcal/cap/d in 2022 and was at its lowest, 1,443 kcal/cap/d, in 2012.
That places Mauritania 20th out of 164 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Mauritania, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,480 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,493 kcal/cap/d | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 1,443 kcal/cap/d | -3.4% |
| 2013 | 1,473 kcal/cap/d | +2.1% |
| 2014 | 1,494 kcal/cap/d | +1.4% |
| 2015 | 1,515 kcal/cap/d | +1.4% |
| 2016 | 1,505 kcal/cap/d | -0.6% |
| 2017 | 1,500 kcal/cap/d | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 1,540 kcal/cap/d | +2.7% |
| 2019 | 1,548 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 1,564 kcal/cap/d | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 1,560 kcal/cap/d | -0.3% |
| 2022 | 1,617 kcal/cap/d | +3.7% |
| 2023 | 1,539 kcal/cap/d | -4.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,499 kcal/cap/d | 1,443 kcal/cap/d | 1,548 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,570 kcal/cap/d | 1,539 kcal/cap/d | 1,617 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Mauritania
- 17 Saudi Arabia 1,582 kcal/cap/d compare
- 17 Melanesia 622.72 kcal/cap/d compare
- 18 Côte d'Ivoire 1,040 kcal/cap/d compare
- 18 Tunisia 1,561 kcal/cap/d compare
- 19 Micronesia (Federated States of) 531.27 kcal/cap/d compare
- 19 Cambodia 1,541 kcal/cap/d compare
- 20 Democratic Republic of the Congo 319.07 kcal/cap/d compare
- 21 Sri Lanka 1,496 kcal/cap/d compare
- 22 Algeria 1,487 kcal/cap/d compare
- 23 Guinea-Bissau 1,449 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Mauritania
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.81 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1995 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.46 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5156 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3851 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 20.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 20.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Mauritania?
- Cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Mauritania was 1,539 kcal/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 1,617 kcal/cap/d in 2022.
- What is the lowest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,443 kcal/cap/d in 2012.
- How does Mauritania rank for cereals - excluding beer — food supply?
- Mauritania ranks 20th out of 164 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals - excluding beer — food supply rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mauritania data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply (kcal/capita/day). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.