Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Mauritania
Mauritania: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 2,933 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — area harvested in Mauritania is 2,933 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 3.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Mauritania peaked at 4,600 ha in 1977 and was at its lowest, 1,500 ha, in 1980.
Mauritania ranks 56th of 111 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,111 ha | 2,000 ha | 3,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,700 ha | 1,800 ha | 4,600 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,160 ha | 1,500 ha | 2,500 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,157 ha | 1,800 ha | 2,939 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,188 ha | 2,096 ha | 2,301 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,640 ha | 2,323 ha | 2,858 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,913 ha | 2,894 ha | 2,933 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 sweet potatoes — area harvested in Mauritania?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Mauritania was 2,933 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 4,600 ha in 1977.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,500 ha in 1980.
- How does Mauritania rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Mauritania ranks 56th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Mauritania data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — 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.