Mauritania's agriculture share fell from 27.2 % in 1996 to 20.0 % in 2025.
Mauritania · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
53rd of 182 · 33rd in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mauritania's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 46.2 % in 1996 to 32.1 % in 2025.
Mauritania's resource rents rose from 3.6 % in 1992 to 11.4 % in 2021.
Mauritania's agricultural land (% of land area) was 38.5 % in 1994 and 38.5 % in 2023.
Mauritania's arable land (% of land area) was 0.4 % in 1994 and 0.4 % in 2023.
Mauritania's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −15.4 %59th of 79
- Food production indexup +2.1 pts54th of 195
- Crop production indexup +4.3 pts10th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.5 pts91st of 194
- Oil productiondown −7.6 %81st of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionunchanged +0.0 %162nd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +9.0 pts12th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts48th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts112th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +5.1 pts119th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.1 pts105th of 165