Green corn (maize) — Yield in Nigeria
Nigeria: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 3,972 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for green corn (maize) — yield in Nigeria is 3,972 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 5.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Nigeria peaked at 3,972 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,429 kg/ha, in 1972.
That places Nigeria 40th out of 60 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,201 kg/ha | 1,905 kg/ha | 2,564 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,621 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 3,516 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,047 kg/ha | 2,424 kg/ha | 3,636 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,291 kg/ha | 2,833 kg/ha | 3,594 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,560 kg/ha | 3,466 kg/ha | 3,654 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,792 kg/ha | 3,677 kg/ha | 3,874 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,939 kg/ha | 3,902 kg/ha | 3,972 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nigeria
- 37 New Zealand 5,364 kg/ha compare
- 38 Norway 4,500 kg/ha compare
- 39 French Polynesia 3,982 kg/ha compare
- 41 Nauru 3,776 kg/ha compare
- 41 Micronesia 3,776 kg/ha compare
- 43 Liberia 3,710 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 green corn (maize) — yield in Nigeria?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Nigeria was 3,972 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 3,972 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,429 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Nigeria rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Nigeria ranks 40th out of 60 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.3%. 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 Green corn (maize) — 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.