Taro — Yield in Nigeria
Nigeria: Taro — Yield was 6,175 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for taro — yield in Nigeria is 6,175 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 20.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Nigeria peaked at 7,550 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 3,044 kg/ha, in 1984.
Nigeria ranks 37th of 59 countries on this measure, 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 | 5,787 kg/ha | 5,237 kg/ha | 6,337 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,039 kg/ha | 3,300 kg/ha | 4,256 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,733 kg/ha | 3,044 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,530 kg/ha | 4,991 kg/ha | 6,323 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,420 kg/ha | 5,743 kg/ha | 7,072 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,956 kg/ha | 3,963 kg/ha | 7,550 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,123 kg/ha | 5,906 kg/ha | 6,204 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nigeria
- 34 Rwanda 7,068 kg/ha compare
- 35 Niue 6,554 kg/ha compare
- 36 Philippines 6,209 kg/ha compare
- 38 Sao Tome and Principe 6,152 kg/ha compare
- 39 Honduras 6,025 kg/ha compare
- 40 Madagascar 6,002 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 taro — yield in Nigeria?
- Taro — yield in Nigeria was 6,175 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 7,550 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,044 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Nigeria rank for taro — yield?
- Nigeria ranks 37th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.7%. 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 Taro — 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.