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 113th of 133 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Nigeria, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,500 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 7,905 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1990 | 7,864 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1991 | 7,846 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1992 | 7,851 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 7,722 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1994 | 8,042 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1995 | 8,153 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1996 | 8,268 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1997 | 8,400 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 8,654 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1999 | 8,556 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2000 | 8,510 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2001 | 8,520 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 8,546 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 8,547 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 8,560 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 8,559 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2006 | 8,571 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 8,526 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 8,623 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 8,702 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2010 | 8,692 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 8,714 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 8,736 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 8,758 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 8,771 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 8,781 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 8,796 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 8,808 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 8,828 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 8,852 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 8,866 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 8,880 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 8,881 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 8,893 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 8,904 kg/ha | +0.1% |
Nigeria compared with similar countries
- Nigeria's 8,904 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 22,209 kg/ha, 40% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
- Nigeria's 8,904 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 13,777 kg/ha, 65% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
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
More agriculture & rural data for Nigeria
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2298 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 281.32 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.1218 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3622 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (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 113th out of 133 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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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.