Nigeria's agriculture share fell from 26.2 % in 1996 to 23.0 % in 2025.
Nigeria · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
50th of 182 · 32nd in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 53.6 % in 1996 to 33.5 % in 2025.
Nigeria's resource rents fell from 20.9 % in 1992 to 8.6 % in 2021.
Nigeria's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 68.0 % in 1994 to 76.2 % in 2023.
Nigeria's arable land (% of land area) rose from 34.0 % in 1994 to 40.5 % in 2023.
Nigeria's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +0.6 %58th of 79
- Food production indexup +2.5 pts46th of 195
- Crop production indexup +2.6 pts46th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.4 pts75th of 194
- Oil productionup +6.8 %14th of 50
- Gas productionup +5.6 %16th of 49
- Coal productiondown −2.3 %61st of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −41.8 %174th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +2.9 pts22nd of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts83rd of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts50th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts102nd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.9 pts126th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.2 pts139th of 165