Niger Barley and products Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day)

Niger Barley and products Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day): Key Points

• Take Niger's barley and products Protein supply quantity at face value first: 0.0100 g/cap/d as of 2022, versus 0.0200 g/cap/d when the series starts in 2014, a 50% fall.
• 2015: falls away sharply to 0.0100 g/cap/d (-50%).
• 2016: surges to 0.0400 g/cap/d (+300%).
• 2019: leaps to 0.1000 g/cap/d (+150%).
• 2022: drops hard to 0.0100 g/cap/d (-86%).
• 2022: Series wraps up at 0.0100 g/cap/d, a net 50.0% loss across the whole run.

What This Chart Is Really Saying

This chart doesn't support a simple narrative. It moves up, it moves down — pick any two years and you can tell almost any story you want. Look at the whole series, not a slice of it.

The single most useful thing to do with this chart is compare Niger against its neighbors or peers on the same barley and products Protein supply quantity series, not read the line in isolation — a number only means something relative to where everyone else stands.

This series reflects Niger's official reporting via the linked source. Statistics of this kind are typically benchmarked against periodic censuses or surveys, with intervening years estimated.

Because this crop is replanted every season, the area harvested can swing a lot faster than it would for a tree crop — a good price the year before, or a bad rainy season, shows up almost immediately in the next year's numbers.

At these volumes, national output for a crop like this often comes down to a handful of producers. A big single-year swing is more likely one grower's decision or one season's weather than a broad economic trend.