Potatoes — Yield in Mauritania
Mauritania: Potatoes — Yield was 5,915 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Potatoes — Yield in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Mauritania is 5,915 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.7% on the previous year and up 1.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Mauritania peaked at 16,640 kg/ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 4,000 kg/ha, in 1982.
That places Mauritania 156th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,714 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 16,640 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,811 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,821 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 5,463 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,197 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,394 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,862 kg/ha | 5,116 kg/ha | 6,286 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,010 kg/ha | 5,915 kg/ha | 6,204 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritania
- 153 Melanesia 6,440 kg/ha compare
- 154 Madagascar 6,038 kg/ha compare
- 155 Republic of Moldova 6,035 kg/ha compare
- 157 Papua New Guinea 5,792 kg/ha compare
- 158 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,573 kg/ha compare
- 159 Botswana 3,852 kg/ha compare
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 potatoes — yield in Mauritania?
- Potatoes — yield in Mauritania was 5,915 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 16,640 kg/ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,000 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Mauritania rank for potatoes — yield?
- Mauritania ranks 156th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Mauritania data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Potatoes — Yield. 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.