Nigeria vs Somalia: Rice — Yield

Nigeria
1,996 kg/ha
in 2024
Somalia
2,000 kg/ha
in 2024
Nigeria rank
103rd
Somalia rank
101st

Rice — Yield over time

  • Nigeria
  • Somalia
02.0k4.0k6.0k196119922024

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 2,000 kg/ha against 1,996 kg/ha in Nigeria, a difference of 4 kg/ha.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Somalia ahead.

Nigeria ranks 103rd and Somalia ranks 101st of 127 countries.

Somalia has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Nigeria Somalia Difference Ahead
1970s 1,626 kg/ha 2,416 kg/ha 790.41 kg/ha Somalia
1980s 2,071 kg/ha 3,301 kg/ha 1,230 kg/ha Somalia
1990s 1,743 kg/ha 3,086 kg/ha 1,344 kg/ha Somalia
2000s 1,487 kg/ha 5,284 kg/ha 3,798 kg/ha Somalia
2010s 2,018 kg/ha 2,618 kg/ha 599.75 kg/ha Somalia
2020s 1,941 kg/ha 2,010 kg/ha 68.66 kg/ha Somalia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rice — yield, Nigeria or Somalia?
Somalia, at 2,000 kg/ha against 1,996 kg/ha in Nigeria as of 2024.
What is the difference in rice — yield between Nigeria and Somalia?
4 kg/ha, with Somalia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Nigeria and Somalia?
55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
How do Nigeria and Somalia rank globally for rice — yield?
Nigeria ranks 103rd and Somalia ranks 101st of 127 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Rice — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Rice — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
159 places, 9,291 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.