Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Nigeria
Nigeria: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 17,049 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Nigeria recorded 17,049 kg/ha for sugar crops primary — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and down 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in Nigeria peaked at 41,071 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 16,832 kg/ha, in 2020.
That places Nigeria 152nd out of 164 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 31,390 kg/ha | 24,571 kg/ha | 37,032 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 38,240 kg/ha | 37,454 kg/ha | 38,889 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 40,059 kg/ha | 39,546 kg/ha | 40,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 34,122 kg/ha | 28,417 kg/ha | 41,071 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 22,173 kg/ha | 18,750 kg/ha | 30,652 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,334 kg/ha | 16,957 kg/ha | 22,088 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,006 kg/ha | 16,832 kg/ha | 17,094 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nigeria
- 149 Bosnia and Herzegovina 19,035 kg/ha compare
- 150 Algeria 18,667 kg/ha compare
- 151 Malaysia 18,098 kg/ha compare
- 153 Brunei Darussalam 16,188 kg/ha compare
- 154 Armenia 15,518 kg/ha compare
- 155 Turkmenistan 15,306 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 sugar crops primary — yield in Nigeria?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in Nigeria was 17,049 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 41,071 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 16,832 kg/ha in 2020.
- How does Nigeria rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- Nigeria ranks 152nd out of 164 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Nigeria data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar Crops Primary — 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.