Citrus Fruit, Total — Yield in Nigeria
Nigeria: Citrus Fruit, Total — Yield was 4,895 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Citrus Fruit, Total — Yield in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Nigeria recorded 4,895 kg/ha for citrus fruit, total — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, citrus fruit, total — yield in Nigeria peaked at 5,013 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 3,273 kg/ha, in 1979.
Nigeria ranks 121st of 148 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 | 3,333 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,327 kg/ha | 3,273 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,437 kg/ha | 3,273 kg/ha | 3,509 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,214 kg/ha | 3,591 kg/ha | 4,438 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,570 kg/ha | 4,467 kg/ha | 4,872 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,876 kg/ha | 4,780 kg/ha | 4,987 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,919 kg/ha | 4,880 kg/ha | 5,013 kg/ha | 5 |
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 citrus fruit, total — yield in Nigeria?
- Citrus fruit, total — yield in Nigeria was 4,895 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest citrus fruit, total — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 5,013 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest citrus fruit, total — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,273 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does Nigeria rank for citrus fruit, total — yield?
- Nigeria ranks 121st out of 148 countries with data for 2024.
- Is citrus fruit, total — yield rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. 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 Citrus Fruit, Total — 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.