Milk, Total — Milk Animals in Niger
Niger: Milk, Total — Milk Animals was 15.06 million An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Milk, Total — Milk Animals in Niger, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for milk, total — milk animals in Niger is 15.06 million An, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 3.6% on the previous year and up 42.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, milk, total — milk animals in Niger peaked at 15.06 million An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 2.75 million An, in 1985.
That places Niger 18th out of 199 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3.35 million An | 2.89 million An | 4.22 million An | 9 |
| 1970s | 4.62 million An | 3.79 million An | 5.05 million An | 10 |
| 1980s | 4.18 million An | 2.75 million An | 5.46 million An | 10 |
| 1990s | 5.86 million An | 4.87 million An | 6.82 million An | 10 |
| 2000s | 8.23 million An | 7.11 million An | 9.37 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 10.79 million An | 8.90 million An | 12.82 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 14.10 million An | 13.35 million An | 15.06 million An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Niger
- Agriculture share gdp 47.59 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 47.59 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 81.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.8% (2025)
- Rural population 22.79 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 47.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1,083 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is milk, total — milk animals in Niger?
- Milk, total — milk animals in Niger was 15.06 million An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest milk, total — milk animals recorded in Niger?
- The highest recorded value was 15.06 million An in 2024.
- What is the lowest milk, total — milk animals recorded in Niger?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.75 million An in 1985.
- How does Niger rank for milk, total — milk animals?
- Niger ranks 18th out of 199 countries with data for 2024.
- Is milk, total — milk animals rising or falling in Niger?
- Over the last ten years it is up 42.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Niger data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Milk, Total — Milk Animals. 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.