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 113 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Mauritania, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 3,000 ha | +50.0% |
| 1970 | 3,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 3,700 ha | +23.3% |
| 1972 | 4,100 ha | +10.8% |
| 1973 | 2,000 ha | -51.2% |
| 1974 | 4,300 ha | +115.0% |
| 1975 | 4,400 ha | +2.3% |
| 1976 | 4,500 ha | +2.3% |
| 1977 | 4,600 ha | +2.2% |
| 1978 | 4,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,800 ha | -60.9% |
| 1980 | 1,500 ha | -16.7% |
| 1981 | 1,800 ha | +20.0% |
| 1982 | 2,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1983 | 2,100 ha | +5.0% |
| 1984 | 2,200 ha | +4.8% |
| 1985 | 2,300 ha | +4.5% |
| 1986 | 2,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 2,400 ha | +4.3% |
| 1988 | 2,500 ha | +4.2% |
| 1989 | 2,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 2,939 ha | +17.6% |
| 1991 | 2,209 ha | -24.8% |
| 1992 | 2,400 ha | +8.6% |
| 1993 | 1,800 ha | -25.0% |
| 1994 | 2,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1995 | 2,040 ha | +2.0% |
| 1996 | 2,047 ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 2,000 ha | -2.3% |
| 1998 | 2,059 ha | +2.9% |
| 1999 | 2,077 ha | +0.9% |
| 2000 | 2,096 ha | +0.9% |
| 2001 | 2,117 ha | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 2,138 ha | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 2,161 ha | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 2,177 ha | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 2,185 ha | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 2,200 ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 2,236 ha | +1.6% |
| 2008 | 2,270 ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 2,301 ha | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 2,323 ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 2,324 ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 2,400 ha | +3.3% |
| 2013 | 2,500 ha | +4.2% |
| 2014 | 2,836 ha | +13.4% |
| 2015 | 2,823 ha | -0.5% |
| 2016 | 2,794 ha | -1.0% |
| 2017 | 2,729 ha | -2.3% |
| 2018 | 2,817 ha | +3.2% |
| 2019 | 2,858 ha | +1.5% |
| 2020 | 2,905 ha | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 2,894 ha | -0.4% |
| 2022 | 2,910 ha | +0.6% |
| 2023 | 2,922 ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 2,933 ha | +0.4% |
Mauritania compared with similar countries
- Mauritania's 2,933 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 9,882 ha, 30% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Mauritania's 2,933 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 28,960 ha, 10% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Mauritania changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | +115.0% | 2,000 ha | 4,300 ha |
| 1979 | -60.9% | 4,600 ha | 1,800 ha |
| 1973 | -51.2% | 4,100 ha | 2,000 ha |
| 1969 | +50.0% | 2,000 ha | 3,000 ha |
| 1993 | -25.0% | 2,400 ha | 1,800 ha |
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 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mauritania
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.81 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1995 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.46 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5156 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3851 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 20.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 20.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
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 113 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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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.