Yams — Area harvested in Mauritania
Mauritania: Yams — Area harvested was 485 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Area harvested in Mauritania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — area harvested in Mauritania is 485 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 2.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Mauritania peaked at 490 ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 260 ha, in 1961.
Mauritania ranks 44th of 67 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 284.44 ha | 260 ha | 300 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 329 ha | 300 ha | 370 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 407 ha | 370 ha | 430 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 409.1 ha | 370 ha | 444 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 429 ha | 414 ha | 452 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 468.4 ha | 452 ha | 490 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 481.2 ha | 477 ha | 485 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritania
- 41 Costa Rica 1,263 ha compare
- 42 Dominica 938 ha compare
- 43 Polynesia 530 ha compare
- 45 Puerto Rico 413 ha compare
- 46 Malaysia 396 ha compare
- 47 Sao Tome and Principe 392 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 yams — area harvested in Mauritania?
- Yams — area harvested in Mauritania was 485 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 490 ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 260 ha in 1961.
- How does Mauritania rank for yams — area harvested?
- Mauritania ranks 44th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.1%. 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 Yams — 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.