Brazil vs Nigeria: Fruit Primary — Area harvested

Brazil
2.40 million ha
in 2024
Nigeria
1.93 million ha
in 2024
Brazil rank
6th
Nigeria rank
7th

Fruit Primary — Area harvested over time

  • Brazil
  • Nigeria
500.0k1.0M1.5M2.0M2.5M196119922024

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 2.40 million ha against 1.93 million ha in Nigeria, a difference of 471,400 ha.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.2 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Nigeria ahead.

Brazil ranks 6th and Nigeria ranks 7th of 189 countries.

Brazil has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Brazil Nigeria Difference Ahead
1960s 795,180 ha 767,778 ha 27,403 ha Brazil
1970s 1.12 million ha 970,000 ha 154,215 ha Brazil
1980s 1.82 million ha 1.15 million ha 672,409 ha Brazil
1990s 2.57 million ha 1.43 million ha 1.15 million ha Brazil
2000s 2.60 million ha 1.73 million ha 871,633 ha Brazil
2010s 2.48 million ha 1.86 million ha 618,454 ha Brazil
2020s 2.33 million ha 1.96 million ha 377,454 ha Brazil

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher fruit primary — area harvested, Brazil or Nigeria?
Brazil, at 2.40 million ha against 1.93 million ha in Nigeria as of 2024.
What is the difference in fruit primary — area harvested between Brazil and Nigeria?
471,400 ha, with Brazil ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Nigeria?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Brazil and Nigeria rank globally for fruit primary — area harvested?
Brazil ranks 6th and Nigeria ranks 7th of 189 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Fruit Primary — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Fruit Primary — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
240 places, 13,778 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.