All food groups (excluding beverages) — Phosphorus supply — Value in Nigeria
Nigeria: All food groups (excluding beverages) — Phosphorus supply — Value was 1,161 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Phosphorus supply — Value in Nigeria, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for all food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value in Nigeria is 1,161 mg/cap/d, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.8% on the previous year and down 7.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, all food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value in Nigeria peaked at 1,304 mg/cap/d in 2017 and was at its lowest, 1,161 mg/cap/d, in 2023.
Nigeria ranks 149th of 177 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,276 mg/cap/d | 1,248 mg/cap/d | 1,304 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,180 mg/cap/d | 1,161 mg/cap/d | 1,194 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Nigeria
More agriculture & rural data for Nigeria
- Agriculture share gdp 22.98 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.98 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2024)
- Rural population 36.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 86.04 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 66.82 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 6.91 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is all food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value in Nigeria?
- All food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value in Nigeria was 1,161 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest all food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 1,304 mg/cap/d in 2017.
- What is the lowest all food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,161 mg/cap/d in 2023.
- How does Nigeria rank for all food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value?
- Nigeria ranks 149th out of 177 countries with data for 2023.
- Is all food groups (excluding beverages) — phosphorus supply — value rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Nigeria data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of All food groups (excluding beverages) — Phosphorus supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.