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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 1.07 million ha
- Asia 193,867 ha
- Africa 480,739 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 162,066 ha
- Western Africa 425,545 ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 40,126 ha
- Americas 305,143 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 301,860 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 163,848 ha
- Northern America 152,208 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 148,594 ha
- United States of America 136,138 ha
- Central America 72,988 ha
- South America 65,096 ha
- Europe 58,615 ha
- European Union (27) 50,568 ha
- Eastern Asia 41,173 ha
- Southern Africa 38,975 ha
- Oceania 36,093 ha
- Southern Europe 32,622 ha
- Western Europe 20,954 ha
- Eastern Africa 16,218 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 11,894 ha
- Eastern Europe 4,999 ha
- Western Asia 4,067 ha
- Northern Europe 40 ha
- Central Asia 34 ha
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.