Agriculture, Value Added (As % of GDP) fell 4.89% to 15.2% in Mauritania in 2015

Agriculture, Value Added (As % of GDP) (%), 2015
Agriculture | Mauritania | July 15, 2018
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Value added of agriculture as a share of GDP fell 4.89% to 15.2% in Mauritania in 2015, according to Faostat.

Historically, value added of agriculture as a share of GDP in Mauritania reached an all time high of 47.5% in 1960 and an all time low of 14.4% in 2011. When compared to Mauritania's main peers, value added of agriculture as a share of GDP in Algeria amounted to 9.39%, 40.8% in Mali, 15.5% in Morocco and 16.6% in Senegal in 2015.

Mauritania has been ranked 50th within the group of 153 countries we follow in terms of value added of agriculture as a share of GDP, 14 places below the position seen 10 years ago.

Agriculture, Value Added (As % of GDP)Unit
Algeria %
Burkina Faso %
Gambia %
Guinea %
Libya %
Mali %
Mauritania %
Morocco %
Niger %
Senegal %
Spain %
Tunisia %
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
9.53% 8.62% 8.33% 9.30% 10.5%
22.8% 23.2% 21.6% 22.6% 22.9%
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 29.3% 31.7% 24.6% 24.5% 23.6% ...
25.9% 22.0% 22.1% 20.5% 20.2%
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
38.9% 40.6% 39.3% 42.3% 40.8%
20.2% 17.8% 14.4% 15.7% 15.5%
16.4% 15.3% 15.5% 14.4% 16.6%
39.2% 40.9% 38.3% 39.4% 37.2%
17.3% 17.7% 15.7% 16.7% 17.5%
2.34% 2.55% 2.46% 2.44% 2.77%
9.06% 8.10% 8.91% 9.19% 8.61%