Rice — Yield in Mauritania
Mauritania: Rice — Yield was 4,878 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, rice — yield in Mauritania stood at 4,878 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 7.9% on the previous year and down 5.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Mauritania peaked at 5,664 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 696.5 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Mauritania 42nd out of 127 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 | 1,527 kg/ha | 696.5 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,481 kg/ha | 913.3 kg/ha | 3,707 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,514 kg/ha | 3,198 kg/ha | 5,366 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,567 kg/ha | 2,740 kg/ha | 4,060 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,362 kg/ha | 3,744 kg/ha | 4,763 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,069 kg/ha | 3,961 kg/ha | 5,664 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,059 kg/ha | 4,278 kg/ha | 5,444 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritania
- 39 Afghanistan 5,062 kg/ha compare
- 40 Syrian Arab Republic 5,000 kg/ha compare
- 40 Ukraine 5,000 kg/ha compare
- 43 Belize 4,849 kg/ha compare
- 44 Sudan (former) 4,699 kg/ha compare
- 45 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 4,639 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 rice — yield in Mauritania?
- Rice — yield in Mauritania was 4,878 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 5,664 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 696.5 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Mauritania rank for rice — yield?
- Mauritania ranks 42nd out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.0%. 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 Rice — 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.