Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight in Nigeria
Nigeria: Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight was 96 kg/An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight in Nigeria is 96 kg/An, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 1.0% on the previous year and down 20.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight in Nigeria peaked at 237 kg/An in 1967 and was at its lowest, 96 kg/An, in 2012.
That places Nigeria 201st out of 206 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 228.56 kg/An | 224 kg/An | 237 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 222.4 kg/An | 217 kg/An | 229 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 187.2 kg/An | 118 kg/An | 225 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 145.5 kg/An | 131 kg/An | 173 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 110.1 kg/An | 96 kg/An | 123 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 98.4 kg/An | 96 kg/An | 101 kg/An | 5 |
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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 beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight in Nigeria?
- Beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight in Nigeria was 96 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 237 kg/An in 1967.
- What is the lowest beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 96 kg/An in 2012.
- How does Nigeria rank for beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight?
- Nigeria ranks 201st out of 206 countries with data for 2024.
- Is beef and buffalo meat, primary — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.7%. 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 Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.