Pulses, Total — Area harvested in Mauritania
Mauritania: Pulses, Total — Area harvested was 96,899 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Pulses, Total — Area harvested in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, pulses, total — area harvested in Mauritania stood at 96,899 ha.
The figure is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 0.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pulses, total — area harvested in Mauritania peaked at 122,423 ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 43,184 ha, in 1961.
That places Mauritania 76th out of 182 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 44,740 ha | 43,184 ha | 48,184 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 47,384 ha | 44,184 ha | 49,184 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 60,224 ha | 58,184 ha | 62,184 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 78,333 ha | 62,484 ha | 97,528 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 108,945 ha | 99,129 ha | 122,423 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 104,695 ha | 96,517 ha | 117,994 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 97,099 ha | 96,066 ha | 98,158 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritania
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 pulses, total — area harvested in Mauritania?
- Pulses, total — area harvested in Mauritania was 96,899 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pulses, total — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 122,423 ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest pulses, total — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 43,184 ha in 1961.
- How does Mauritania rank for pulses, total — area harvested?
- Mauritania ranks 76th out of 182 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pulses, total — area harvested rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.4%. 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 Pulses, Total — Area harvested. 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.