Wheat — Yield in Nigeria
Nigeria: Wheat — Yield was 1,574 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Wheat — Yield in Nigeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Nigeria recorded 1,574 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.8% on the previous year and up 20.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Nigeria peaked at 3,126 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 833.3 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places Nigeria 103rd out of 124 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.
Wheat — Yield in Nigeria, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,778 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,778 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,778 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,818 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1965 | 1,818 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,818 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,909 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1968 | 1,818 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1969 | 1,818 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,727 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1971 | 1,739 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1972 | 1,739 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,429 kg/ha | -17.9% |
| 1974 | 1,500 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1975 | 1,636 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1976 | 1,800 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1977 | 2,000 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1978 | 2,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 2,200 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1980 | 2,400 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1981 | 2,600 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1982 | 2,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,857 kg/ha | -28.6% |
| 1984 | 1,688 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1985 | 2,054 kg/ha | +21.7% |
| 1986 | 1,970 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1987 | 1,931 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1988 | 1,250 kg/ha | -35.3% |
| 1989 | 1,200 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1990 | 833.3 kg/ha | -30.6% |
| 1991 | 1,200 kg/ha | +44.0% |
| 1992 | 1,333 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1993 | 2,329 kg/ha | +74.6% |
| 1994 | 2,347 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1995 | 2,180 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1996 | 2,044 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1997 | 2,640 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 1998 | 2,000 kg/ha | -24.2% |
| 1999 | 2,012 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2000 | 1,404 kg/ha | -30.2% |
| 2001 | 980.8 kg/ha | -30.1% |
| 2002 | 981.8 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,036 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2004 | 1,069 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 1,100 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2006 | 1,127 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2007 | 1,692 kg/ha | +50.2% |
| 2008 | 1,656 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2009 | 1,667 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 1,484 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2011 | 1,279 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2012 | 1,019 kg/ha | -20.3% |
| 2013 | 1,000 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2014 | 1,304 kg/ha | +30.4% |
| 2015 | 1,000 kg/ha | -23.3% |
| 2016 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,678 kg/ha | +67.8% |
| 2018 | 1,714 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 1,683 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2020 | 1,100 kg/ha | -34.6% |
| 2021 | 3,126 kg/ha | +184.1% |
| 2022 | 2,183 kg/ha | -30.2% |
| 2023 | 1,587 kg/ha | -27.3% |
| 2024 | 1,574 kg/ha | -0.8% |
Nigeria compared with similar countries
- Nigeria's 1,574 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,768 kg/ha, 57% of the median. (25 countries reporting)
- Nigeria's 1,574 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,725 kg/ha, 91% of the median. (25 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | +184.1% | 1,100 kg/ha | 3,126 kg/ha |
| 1993 | +74.6% | 1,333 kg/ha | 2,329 kg/ha |
| 2017 | +67.8% | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,678 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,815 kg/ha | 1,778 kg/ha | 1,909 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,777 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 2,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,955 kg/ha | 1,200 kg/ha | 2,600 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,892 kg/ha | 833.3 kg/ha | 2,640 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,271 kg/ha | 980.8 kg/ha | 1,692 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,316 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,714 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,914 kg/ha | 1,100 kg/ha | 3,126 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 wheat — yield in Nigeria?
- Wheat — yield in Nigeria was 1,574 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 3,126 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 833.3 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Nigeria rank for wheat — yield?
- Nigeria ranks 103rd out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — 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 falling.
- Where does this Nigeria data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Wheat — 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.