Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Nigeria
Nigeria: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested was 4.67 million ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Nigeria recorded 4.67 million ha for vegetables primary — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 2.0% on the previous year and up 45.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — area harvested in Nigeria peaked at 4.67 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 536,300 ha, in 1962.
Nigeria ranks 4th of 207 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 571,164 ha | 536,300 ha | 611,600 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 621,950 ha | 572,000 ha | 657,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 722,150 ha | 587,000 ha | 877,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.33 million ha | 919,024 ha | 1.63 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.05 million ha | 1.71 million ha | 2.28 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3.34 million ha | 2.41 million ha | 4.03 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.43 million ha | 4.13 million ha | 4.67 million ha | 5 |
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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 vegetables primary — area harvested in Nigeria?
- Vegetables primary — area harvested in Nigeria was 4.67 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 4.67 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 536,300 ha in 1962.
- How does Nigeria rank for vegetables primary — area harvested?
- Nigeria ranks 4th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — area harvested rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 45.3%. 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 Vegetables Primary — Area harvested. 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.