Wheat — Yield in Mauritania
Mauritania: Wheat — Yield was 2,197 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Wheat — Yield in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Mauritania stood at 2,197 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 8.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Mauritania peaked at 2,491 kg/ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 200 kg/ha, in 1964.
That places Mauritania 92nd out of 133 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
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 | 391.78 kg/ha | 200 kg/ha | 631.6 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 569.09 kg/ha | 483.9 kg/ha | 750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 868.58 kg/ha | 525 kg/ha | 1,055 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,226 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,509 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,906 kg/ha | 1,546 kg/ha | 2,491 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,052 kg/ha | 1,602 kg/ha | 2,150 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,185 kg/ha | 2,158 kg/ha | 2,206 kg/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 — yield in Mauritania?
- Wheat — yield in Mauritania was 2,197 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 2,491 kg/ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 200 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Mauritania rank for wheat — yield?
- Mauritania ranks 92nd out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.8%. 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 — Yield. 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.