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 186th of 207 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
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 |
Countries ranked near Mauritania
- 183 Barbados 1,018 ha compare
- 183 French Guiana 1,018 ha compare
- 185 Singapore 1,004 ha compare
- 187 Micronesia 798 ha compare
- 188 Seychelles 663 ha compare
- 189 Suriname 553 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 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 186th out of 207 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.