Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Mauritania
Mauritania: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested was 895 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Mauritania recorded 895 ha for vegetables primary — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 0.3% on the previous year and down 6.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — area harvested in Mauritania peaked at 953 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 240 ha, in 1973.
Mauritania ranks 172nd of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Mauritania, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 335 ha | — |
| 1962 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 335 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 320 ha | -4.5% |
| 1973 | 240 ha | -25.0% |
| 1974 | 250 ha | +4.2% |
| 1975 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 275 ha | +10.0% |
| 1977 | 275 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 280 ha | +1.8% |
| 1979 | 285 ha | +1.8% |
| 1980 | 330 ha | +15.8% |
| 1981 | 420 ha | +27.3% |
| 1982 | 500 ha | +19.0% |
| 1983 | 525 ha | +5.0% |
| 1984 | 530 ha | +1.0% |
| 1985 | 550 ha | +3.8% |
| 1986 | 550 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 550 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 550 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 550 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 494 ha | -10.2% |
| 1991 | 627 ha | +26.9% |
| 1992 | 614 ha | -2.1% |
| 1993 | 508 ha | -17.3% |
| 1994 | 525 ha | +3.3% |
| 1995 | 546 ha | +4.0% |
| 1996 | 544 ha | -0.4% |
| 1997 | 553 ha | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 564 ha | +2.0% |
| 1999 | 570 ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 588 ha | +3.2% |
| 2001 | 600 ha | +2.0% |
| 2002 | 605 ha | +0.8% |
| 2003 | 611 ha | +1.0% |
| 2004 | 617 ha | +1.0% |
| 2005 | 620 ha | +0.5% |
| 2006 | 639 ha | +3.1% |
| 2007 | 657 ha | +2.8% |
| 2008 | 676 ha | +2.9% |
| 2009 | 700 ha | +3.6% |
| 2010 | 729 ha | +4.1% |
| 2011 | 768 ha | +5.3% |
| 2012 | 850 ha | +10.7% |
| 2013 | 894 ha | +5.2% |
| 2014 | 953 ha | +6.6% |
| 2015 | 866 ha | -9.1% |
| 2016 | 870 ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 869 ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 877 ha | +0.9% |
| 2019 | 891 ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 906 ha | +1.7% |
| 2021 | 892 ha | -1.5% |
| 2022 | 896 ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 898 ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 895 ha | -0.3% |
Mauritania compared with similar countries
- Mauritania's 895 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 59,228 ha, 2% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Mauritania's 895 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 61,543 ha, 1% of the median. (43 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Vegetables Primary — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | +27.3% | 330 ha | 420 ha |
| 1973 | -25.0% | 320 ha | 240 ha |
| 1991 | +26.9% | 494 ha | 627 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 335 ha | 335 ha | 335 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 284.5 ha | 240 ha | 335 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 505.5 ha | 330 ha | 550 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 554.5 ha | 494 ha | 627 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 631.3 ha | 588 ha | 700 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 856.7 ha | 729 ha | 953 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 897.4 ha | 892 ha | 906 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 vegetables primary — area harvested in Mauritania?
- Vegetables primary — area harvested in Mauritania was 895 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 953 ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 240 ha in 1973.
- How does Mauritania rank for vegetables primary — area harvested?
- Mauritania ranks 172nd out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — area harvested rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.1%. 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 Vegetables Primary — 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.