Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Mauritania
Mauritania: Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 6,170 1000 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 An.
Analysis
Mauritania recorded 6,170 1000 An for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 6.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in Mauritania peaked at 6,170 1000 An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,800 1000 An, in 1961.
Mauritania ranks 158th of 207 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,056 1000 An | 1,800 1000 An | 2,400 1000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,855 1000 An | 2,500 1000 An | 3,300 1000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,105 1000 An | 3,400 1000 An | 4,700 1000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,892 1000 An | 4,700 1000 An | 5,120 1000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,542 1000 An | 5,100 1000 An | 6,000 1000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,839 1000 An | 5,580 1000 An | 6,023 1000 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,119 1000 An | 6,065 1000 An | 6,170 1000 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mauritania
- Agriculture share gdp 19.95 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 19.95 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 38.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 2.05 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 20.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.33 billion current US$ (2025)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 0 An (1992)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in Mauritania?
- Meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in Mauritania was 6,170 1000 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 6,170 1000 An in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,800 1000 An in 1961.
- How does Mauritania rank for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Mauritania ranks 158th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.4%. 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 Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.