Vegetables Primary — Production in Mauritania
Mauritania: Vegetables Primary — Production was 4,925 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Production in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Mauritania recorded 4,925 t for vegetables primary — production in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 6.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — production in Mauritania peaked at 4,925 t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,400 t, in 1973.
Mauritania ranks 177th 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 — Production in Mauritania, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 2,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 2,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 2,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 2,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 2,100 t | +5.0% |
| 1969 | 2,100 t | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 2,100 t | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 2,000 t | -4.8% |
| 1972 | 1,800 t | -10.0% |
| 1973 | 1,400 t | -22.2% |
| 1974 | 1,400 t | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,400 t | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,600 t | +14.3% |
| 1977 | 1,600 t | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,650 t | +3.1% |
| 1979 | 1,700 t | +3.0% |
| 1980 | 2,000 t | +17.6% |
| 1981 | 2,500 t | +25.0% |
| 1982 | 3,000 t | +20.0% |
| 1983 | 3,100 t | +3.3% |
| 1984 | 3,200 t | +3.2% |
| 1985 | 3,200 t | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 3,300 t | +3.1% |
| 1987 | 3,600 t | +9.1% |
| 1988 | 3,700 t | +2.8% |
| 1989 | 3,800 t | +2.7% |
| 1990 | 4,000 t | +5.3% |
| 1991 | 4,100 t | +2.5% |
| 1992 | 4,000 t | -2.4% |
| 1993 | 3,300 t | -17.5% |
| 1994 | 3,400 t | +3.0% |
| 1995 | 3,524 t | +3.7% |
| 1996 | 3,500 t | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 3,606 t | +3.0% |
| 1998 | 3,665 t | +1.6% |
| 1999 | 3,700 t | +0.9% |
| 2000 | 3,815 t | +3.1% |
| 2001 | 3,900 t | +2.2% |
| 2002 | 3,921 t | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 3,954 t | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 3,985 t | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 4,000 t | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 4,090 t | +2.3% |
| 2007 | 4,175 t | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 4,251 t | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 4,330 t | +1.8% |
| 2010 | 4,410 t | +1.9% |
| 2011 | 4,492 t | +1.9% |
| 2012 | 4,700 t | +4.6% |
| 2013 | 4,633 t | -1.4% |
| 2014 | 4,635 t | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 4,649 t | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 4,674 t | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 4,712 t | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 4,751 t | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 4,788 t | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 4,826 t | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 4,869 t | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 4,880 t | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 4,903 t | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 4,925 t | +0.5% |
Mauritania compared with similar countries
- Mauritania's 4,925 t is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 741,032 t, 1% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Mauritania's 4,925 t is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 479,512 t, 1% of the median. (43 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Vegetables Primary — Production 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 | +25.0% | 2,000 t | 2,500 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,022 t | 2,000 t | 2,100 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,665 t | 1,400 t | 2,100 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,140 t | 2,000 t | 3,800 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,680 t | 3,300 t | 4,100 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,042 t | 3,815 t | 4,330 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,644 t | 4,410 t | 4,788 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,881 t | 4,826 t | 4,925 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritania
- 174 Solomon Islands 5,973 t compare
- 175 Kiribati 5,721 t compare
- 176 Iceland 5,411 t compare
- 178 Sao Tome and Principe 3,822 t compare
- 179 Saint Lucia 3,473 t compare
- 180 French Polynesia 3,210 t compare
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 — production in Mauritania?
- Vegetables primary — production in Mauritania was 4,925 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — production recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 4,925 t in 2024.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — production recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,400 t in 1973.
- How does Mauritania rank for vegetables primary — production?
- Mauritania ranks 177th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — production rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.3%. 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 — Production. 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.