Carrots and turnips — Yield in Nigeria
Nigeria: Carrots and turnips — Yield was 8,904 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, carrots and turnips — yield in Nigeria stood at 8,904 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — yield in Nigeria peaked at 8,904 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 7,500 kg/ha, in 1961.
Nigeria ranks 121st of 142 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,500 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,500 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,540 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 7,905 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,136 kg/ha | 7,722 kg/ha | 8,654 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,566 kg/ha | 8,510 kg/ha | 8,702 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,774 kg/ha | 8,692 kg/ha | 8,852 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,885 kg/ha | 8,866 kg/ha | 8,904 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nigeria
- 118 Sudan (former) 10,119 kg/ha compare
- 119 Dominica 10,010 kg/ha compare
- 120 Democratic Republic of the Congo 8,968 kg/ha compare
- 122 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8,900 kg/ha compare
- 123 Yemen 8,898 kg/ha compare
- 124 Rwanda 8,830 kg/ha compare
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 carrots and turnips — yield in Nigeria?
- Carrots and turnips — yield in Nigeria was 8,904 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 8,904 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,500 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Nigeria rank for carrots and turnips — yield?
- Nigeria ranks 121st out of 142 countries with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — yield rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nigeria data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Carrots and turnips — Yield. 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.