Americas vs Nigeria: Cocoa beans — Production
Cocoa beans — Production over time
- Americas
- Nigeria
How they compare
Americas currently reports 1.08 million t against 350,000 t in Nigeria, a difference of 729,730 t.
That makes Americas's figure about 3.1 times Nigeria's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 5th and Nigeria ranks 5th of 18 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Nigeria | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 340,036 t | 222,522 t | 117,514 t | Americas |
| 1970s | 457,919 t | 212,950 t | 244,969 t | Americas |
| 1980s | 627,297 t | 175,080 t | 452,217 t | Americas |
| 1990s | 583,610 t | 287,200 t | 296,410 t | Americas |
| 2000s | 482,927 t | 385,410 t | 97,517 t | Americas |
| 2010s | 753,274 t | 324,016 t | 429,258 t | Americas |
| 2020s | 1.03 million t | 327,522 t | 705,280 t | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher cocoa beans — production, Americas or Nigeria?
- Americas, at 1.08 million t against 350,000 t in Nigeria as of 2024.
- What is the difference in cocoa beans — production between Americas and Nigeria?
- 729,730 t, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Nigeria?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Nigeria rank globally for cocoa beans — production?
- Americas ranks 5th and Nigeria ranks 5th of 18 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cocoa beans — Production. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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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.