Wheat — Area harvested in Mauritania
Mauritania: Wheat — Area harvested was 933 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Wheat — Area harvested in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Mauritania recorded 933 ha for wheat — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of up 2.0% on the previous year and down 73.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — area harvested in Mauritania peaked at 3,590 ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 250 ha, in 1994.
Mauritania ranks 118th of 133 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 413.33 ha | 330 ha | 450 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 352 ha | 300 ha | 420 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 479.4 ha | 400 ha | 512 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 373.6 ha | 250 ha | 520 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 685 ha | 250 ha | 2,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,006 ha | 1,159 ha | 3,590 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,862 ha | 915 ha | 3,369 ha | 5 |
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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 wheat — area harvested in Mauritania?
- Wheat — area harvested in Mauritania was 933 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 3,590 ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest wheat — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 250 ha in 1994.
- How does Mauritania rank for wheat — area harvested?
- Mauritania ranks 118th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — area harvested rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is down 73.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Mauritania data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Wheat — 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.