Sorghum — Yield in Niger
Niger: Sorghum — Yield was 556.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sorghum — Yield in Niger, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Niger recorded 556.3 kg/ha for sorghum — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 15.6% on the previous year and up 39.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Niger peaked at 725.8 kg/ha in 1963 and was at its lowest, 125.7 kg/ha, in 1990.
Niger ranks 111th of 122 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 588.03 kg/ha | 361.1 kg/ha | 725.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 410.69 kg/ha | 281.6 kg/ha | 489.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 318.94 kg/ha | 215.3 kg/ha | 478.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 171.24 kg/ha | 125.7 kg/ha | 226.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 304.14 kg/ha | 172.1 kg/ha | 429.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 448.84 kg/ha | 267.6 kg/ha | 561.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 503.24 kg/ha | 343.1 kg/ha | 580.7 kg/ha | 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 sorghum — yield in Niger?
- Sorghum — yield in Niger was 556.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Niger?
- The highest recorded value was 725.8 kg/ha in 1963.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Niger?
- The lowest recorded value was 125.7 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Niger rank for sorghum — yield?
- Niger ranks 111th out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Niger?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Niger data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sorghum — 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.