Guinea vs Nigeria: Yams — Yield

Guinea
8,354 kg/ha
in 2024
Nigeria
8,149 kg/ha
in 2024
Guinea rank
37th
Nigeria rank
39th

Yams — Yield over time

  • Guinea
  • Nigeria
05.0k10.0k15.0k196119922024

How they compare

Guinea currently reports 8,354 kg/ha against 8,149 kg/ha in Nigeria, a difference of 205 kg/ha.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Guinea ahead.

Guinea ranks 37th and Nigeria ranks 39th of 67 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Guinea averaged higher in 6 and Nigeria in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Guinea Nigeria Difference Ahead
1960s 8,673 kg/ha 8,586 kg/ha 87.23 kg/ha Guinea
1970s 8,657 kg/ha 9,803 kg/ha 1,146 kg/ha Nigeria
1980s 9,043 kg/ha 7,105 kg/ha 1,938 kg/ha Guinea
1990s 11,009 kg/ha 10,696 kg/ha 313.15 kg/ha Guinea
2000s 11,577 kg/ha 10,694 kg/ha 883.1 kg/ha Guinea
2010s 9,537 kg/ha 8,755 kg/ha 782.91 kg/ha Guinea
2020s 8,495 kg/ha 8,083 kg/ha 412.02 kg/ha Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher yams — yield, Guinea or Nigeria?
Guinea, at 8,354 kg/ha against 8,149 kg/ha in Nigeria as of 2024.
What is the difference in yams — yield between Guinea and Nigeria?
205 kg/ha, with Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Guinea and Nigeria?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Guinea and Nigeria rank globally for yams — yield?
Guinea ranks 37th and Nigeria ranks 39th of 67 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Yams — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Yams — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
90 places, 4,922 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.