Mauritania - Arable land

Arable land (hectares)

The value for Arable land (hectares) in Mauritania was 400,000 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 498,000 in 1995 and a minimum value of 192,000 in 1975.

Definition: Arable land (in hectares) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

See also:

Year Value
1961 267,000
1962 267,000
1963 267,000
1964 266,000
1965 265,000
1966 266,000
1967 267,000
1968 268,000
1969 278,000
1970 278,000
1971 239,000
1972 239,000
1973 226,000
1974 196,000
1975 192,000
1976 195,000
1977 196,000
1978 192,000
1979 195,000
1980 210,000
1981 230,000
1982 250,000
1983 270,000
1984 280,000
1985 300,000
1986 320,000
1987 340,000
1988 360,000
1989 380,000
1990 400,000
1991 410,000
1992 420,000
1993 431,000
1994 470,000
1995 498,000
1996 488,000
1997 488,000
1998 488,000
1999 488,000
2000 488,000
2001 450,000
2002 400,000
2003 400,000
2004 400,000
2005 400,000
2006 400,000
2007 400,000
2008 400,000
2009 390,000
2010 450,000
2011 400,000
2012 400,000
2013 400,000
2014 400,000
2015 400,000
2016 400,000
2017 400,000
2018 400,000

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in Mauritania was 0.091 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.305 in 1961 and a minimum value of 0.091 in 2018.

Definition: Arable land (hectares per person) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

See also:

Year Value
1961 0.305
1962 0.296
1963 0.287
1964 0.278
1965 0.269
1966 0.262
1967 0.255
1968 0.248
1969 0.250
1970 0.242
1971 0.202
1972 0.196
1973 0.180
1974 0.152
1975 0.144
1976 0.142
1977 0.139
1978 0.132
1979 0.130
1980 0.136
1981 0.145
1982 0.153
1983 0.161
1984 0.162
1985 0.169
1986 0.175
1987 0.181
1988 0.186
1989 0.192
1990 0.197
1991 0.196
1992 0.196
1993 0.196
1994 0.208
1995 0.215
1996 0.206
1997 0.201
1998 0.195
1999 0.191
2000 0.186
2001 0.167
2002 0.144
2003 0.140
2004 0.136
2005 0.132
2006 0.129
2007 0.125
2008 0.121
2009 0.115
2010 0.129
2011 0.111
2012 0.108
2013 0.105
2014 0.102
2015 0.099
2016 0.096
2017 0.093
2018 0.091

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in Mauritania was 0.388 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 0.483 in 1995, while its lowest value was 0.186 in 1975.

Definition: Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

See also:

Year Value
1961 0.259
1962 0.259
1963 0.259
1964 0.258
1965 0.257
1966 0.258
1967 0.259
1968 0.260
1969 0.270
1970 0.270
1971 0.232
1972 0.232
1973 0.219
1974 0.190
1975 0.186
1976 0.189
1977 0.190
1978 0.186
1979 0.189
1980 0.204
1981 0.223
1982 0.243
1983 0.262
1984 0.272
1985 0.291
1986 0.310
1987 0.330
1988 0.349
1989 0.369
1990 0.388
1991 0.398
1992 0.407
1993 0.418
1994 0.456
1995 0.483
1996 0.473
1997 0.473
1998 0.473
1999 0.473
2000 0.473
2001 0.437
2002 0.388
2003 0.388
2004 0.388
2005 0.388
2006 0.388
2007 0.388
2008 0.388
2009 0.378
2010 0.437
2011 0.388
2012 0.388
2013 0.388
2014 0.388
2015 0.388
2016 0.388
2017 0.388
2018 0.388

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use