Soya beans — Yield in Nigeria
Nigeria: Soya beans — Yield was 1,018 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Soya beans — Yield in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for soya beans — yield in Nigeria is 1,018 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 15.2% on the previous year and up 3.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Nigeria peaked at 1,295 kg/ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 210 kg/ha, in 1983.
That places Nigeria 78th out of 98 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Soya beans — Yield in Nigeria, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 349.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 365.1 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1963 | 368.4 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1964 | 327.8 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1965 | 304.3 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1966 | 324.3 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1967 | 361.4 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1968 | 351.4 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1969 | 387.5 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1970 | 313.5 kg/ha | -19.1% |
| 1971 | 315 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1972 | 315 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 320 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1974 | 325 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1975 | 325 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 318.2 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1977 | 318.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 300 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1979 | 292 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1980 | 277.8 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1981 | 260 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1982 | 234.3 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1983 | 210 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1984 | 215 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1985 | 292.7 kg/ha | +36.1% |
| 1986 | 323.8 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 1987 | 330.2 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 339.4 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1989 | 400 kg/ha | +17.9% |
| 1990 | 299 kg/ha | -25.2% |
| 1991 | 309.8 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1992 | 300.2 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1993 | 300.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 300.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 465.2 kg/ha | +55.0% |
| 1996 | 641.4 kg/ha | +37.9% |
| 1997 | 664.8 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1998 | 736.4 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1999 | 800 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 2000 | 829.8 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2001 | 840.1 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 859.3 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 890.1 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2004 | 899.5 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 940.1 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2006 | 960.3 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2007 | 909.1 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2008 | 970.4 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2009 | 720.6 kg/ha | -25.7% |
| 2010 | 1,295 kg/ha | +79.7% |
| 2011 | 822.3 kg/ha | -36.5% |
| 2012 | 972.6 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 2013 | 761.7 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 2014 | 985.5 kg/ha | +29.4% |
| 2015 | 965.8 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2016 | 875.1 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2017 | 887.7 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 896.8 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 913.3 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2020 | 1,045 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 2021 | 1,054 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 1,148 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2023 | 1,200 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2024 | 1,018 kg/ha | -15.2% |
Nigeria compared with similar countries
- Nigeria's 1,018 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 1,170 kg/ha, 87% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
- Nigeria's 1,018 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,022 kg/ha, 100% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Soya beans — Yield in Nigeria changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | +79.7% | 720.6 kg/ha | 1,295 kg/ha |
| 1995 | +55.0% | 300.2 kg/ha | 465.2 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 348.88 kg/ha | 304.3 kg/ha | 387.5 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 314.19 kg/ha | 292 kg/ha | 325 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 288.32 kg/ha | 210 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 481.72 kg/ha | 299 kg/ha | 800 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 881.93 kg/ha | 720.6 kg/ha | 970.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 937.59 kg/ha | 761.7 kg/ha | 1,295 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,093 kg/ha | 1,018 kg/ha | 1,200 kg/ha | 5 |
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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 soya beans — yield in Nigeria?
- Soya beans — yield in Nigeria was 1,018 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 1,295 kg/ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 210 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Nigeria rank for soya beans — yield?
- Nigeria ranks 78th out of 98 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Nigeria data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Soya beans — 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.