Green corn (maize) — Area harvested by country

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...

Countries reporting
59
Highest
201,276 ha
Nigeria
Lowest
3 ha
French Polynesia
Median
2,491 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,064

What the numbers show

Green corn (maize) — Area harvested is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 201,276 ha in Nigeria; the lowest is 3 ha in French Polynesia.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,491 ha, and the mean is 17,997 ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 67,092.

Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 18 fell. The largest increase was in Caribbean (up 853.2%), and the largest decrease in Panama (down 67.9%).

Green corn (maize) — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Nigeria 201,276 ha 2024 up 3.7% rising
2 Guinea 141,002 ha 2024 up 6.7% rising
3 Indonesia 111,363 ha 2024 up 16.0% falling
4 Mexico 70,414 ha 2024 up 10.1% volatile
4 Melanesia 25,110 ha 2024 up 6.0% rising
5 Peru 45,230 ha 2024 down 0.5% rising
5 United Republic of Tanzania 14,328 ha 2024 up 8.0% rising
6 South Africa 38,975 ha 2024 up 9.8% rising
6 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 9,469 ha 2024 up 12.6% falling
7 Thailand 37,109 ha 2024 up 25.4% volatile
7 Republic of Moldova 599 ha 2024 down 25.1% rising
8 Hungary 36,623 ha 2017 up 15.0% volatile
8 Polynesia 57 ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
9 Croatia 28,700 ha 2022 down 0.8% rising
10 Côte d'Ivoire 76,532 ha 2024 up 5.8% rising
10 Papua New Guinea 25,110 ha 2024 up 6.0% rising
11 Japan 20,874 ha 2024 down 14.5% falling
12 France 20,568 ha 2024 down 0.1% rising
13 China 20,299 ha 2024 up 12.2% volatile
13 China, mainland 20,299 ha 2024 up 12.2% volatile
15 Canada 16,070 ha 2024 down 18.0% falling
16 Greece 15,436 ha 2017 up 65.0% rising
17 Australia and New Zealand 10,926 ha 2024 down 38.9% volatile
18 Chile 10,245 ha 2024 up 5.3% flat
19 Australia 6,776 ha 2024 up 0.3% rising
20 Liberia 6,736 ha 2024 up 3.4% rising
21 Caribbean 14,851 ha 2024 up 853.2% volatile
21 Poland 5,236 ha 2017 up 251.4% volatile
22 Romania 4,535 ha 2017 up 4.9% rising
23 Ukraine 4,400 ha 2024 down 37.9% volatile
24 New Zealand 4,150 ha 2024 down 62.7% volatile
25 Serbia 2,491 ha 2024 up 84.2% rising
26 El Salvador 2,359 ha 2024 down 22.4% falling
27 Serbia and Montenegro 2,274 ha 2005 up 262.1% volatile
28 Israel 1,989 ha 2024 down 58.6% falling
29 Zimbabwe 1,782 ha 2024 up 4.2% rising
30 Jordan 1,343 ha 2024 up 129.6% rising
31 Slovakia 1,110 ha 2017 down 48.0% volatile
32 Palestine 982 ha 2022 up 16.2% rising
33 Austria 830 ha 2017 up 36.7% rising
34 Puerto Rico 682 ha 2024 up 5.7% rising
35 Trinidad and Tobago 623 ha 2024 down 9.3% falling
36 Bulgaria 491 ha 2017 up 158.4% rising
37 Switzerland 386 ha 2024 up 119.3% rising
38 Panama 215 ha 2024 down 67.9% volatile
39 Barbados 168 ha 2024 down 1.2% volatile
40 Uruguay 152 ha 2024 up 13.4% volatile
41 Brunei Darussalam 122 ha 2024 up 8.0% volatile
42 Bosnia and Herzegovina 121 ha 2024 down 2.4% flat
43 Mauritius 108 ha 2024 up 56.5% volatile
44 Qatar 87 ha 2024 up 8.8% volatile
45 Jamaica 61 ha 2024 up 7.0% volatile
46 Samoa 54 ha 2024 up 1.9% rising
47 Norway 40 ha 2024 up 33.3% volatile
48 Kazakhstan 34 ha 2024 up 6.2% rising
49 Grenada 18 ha 2024 down 47.1% volatile
50 Antigua and Barbuda 10 ha 2024 — rising
51 North Macedonia 9 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
52 French Polynesia 3 ha 2024 down 40.0% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Green corn (maize) — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
88 places, 4,064 data points, 1961–2024
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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.