Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Green corn (maize) — Area harvested was 162,066 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for green corn (maize) — area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is 162,066 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 6.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 163,500 ha in 1970 and was at its lowest, 86,700 ha, in 1965.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 116,400 ha | — |
| 1962 | 111,500 ha | -4.2% |
| 1963 | 103,100 ha | -7.5% |
| 1964 | 107,200 ha | +4.0% |
| 1965 | 86,700 ha | -19.1% |
| 1966 | 117,800 ha | +35.9% |
| 1967 | 127,900 ha | +8.6% |
| 1968 | 152,900 ha | +19.5% |
| 1969 | 138,200 ha | -9.6% |
| 1970 | 163,500 ha | +18.3% |
| 1971 | 148,800 ha | -9.0% |
| 1972 | 114,100 ha | -23.3% |
| 1973 | 104,800 ha | -8.2% |
| 1974 | 117,600 ha | +12.2% |
| 1975 | 121,200 ha | +3.1% |
| 1976 | 124,700 ha | +2.9% |
| 1977 | 125,400 ha | +0.6% |
| 1978 | 125,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 125,700 ha | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 126,000 ha | +0.2% |
| 1981 | 131,000 ha | +4.0% |
| 1982 | 131,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 121,200 ha | -7.5% |
| 1984 | 131,300 ha | +8.3% |
| 1985 | 131,600 ha | +0.2% |
| 1986 | 116,700 ha | -11.3% |
| 1987 | 116,800 ha | +0.1% |
| 1988 | 116,900 ha | +0.1% |
| 1989 | 117,000 ha | +0.1% |
| 1990 | 106,301 ha | -9.1% |
| 1991 | 132,692 ha | +24.8% |
| 1992 | 132,415 ha | -0.2% |
| 1993 | 132,738 ha | +0.2% |
| 1994 | 133,034 ha | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 133,065 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 131,610 ha | -1.1% |
| 1997 | 124,800 ha | -5.2% |
| 1998 | 117,295 ha | -6.0% |
| 1999 | 122,634 ha | +4.6% |
| 2000 | 127,783 ha | +4.2% |
| 2001 | 130,938 ha | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 137,738 ha | +5.2% |
| 2003 | 143,317 ha | +4.1% |
| 2004 | 148,569 ha | +3.7% |
| 2005 | 154,481 ha | +4.0% |
| 2006 | 125,484 ha | -18.8% |
| 2007 | 131,939 ha | +5.1% |
| 2008 | 133,930 ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 138,937 ha | +3.7% |
| 2010 | 145,500 ha | +4.7% |
| 2011 | 149,667 ha | +2.9% |
| 2012 | 151,200 ha | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 149,923 ha | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 151,939 ha | +1.3% |
| 2015 | 154,958 ha | +2.0% |
| 2016 | 155,261 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 156,742 ha | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 157,644 ha | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 158,881 ha | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 160,161 ha | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 161,521 ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 162,813 ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 161,592 ha | -0.7% |
| 2024 | 162,066 ha | +0.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | +35.9% | 86,700 ha | 117,800 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 117,967 ha | 86,700 ha | 152,900 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 127,120 ha | 104,800 ha | 163,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 123,950 ha | 116,700 ha | 131,600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 126,658 ha | 106,301 ha | 133,065 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 137,312 ha | 125,484 ha | 154,481 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 153,172 ha | 145,500 ha | 158,881 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 161,631 ha | 160,161 ha | 162,813 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Green corn (maize) — area harvested in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 162,066 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — area harvested recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 163,500 ha in 1970.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — area harvested recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 86,700 ha in 1965.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for green corn (maize) — area harvested?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 2nd out of 9 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — area harvested rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Green corn (maize) — Area harvested. 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.