Nigeria vs Senegal: Groundnut yields

Nigeria

1.25 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Senegal

1.33 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Nigeria rank

62nd

Senegal rank

59th

Groundnut yields over time

Senegal currently reports 1.33 tonnes per hectare against 1.25 tonnes per hectare in Nigeria, a difference of 0.0805 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Senegal's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 17 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 62nd and Senegal ranks 59th of 119 countries.

Indicator: Groundnut yields
Unit: tonnes per hectare
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 120 places, 6,722 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.