Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Peru
Peru: Green corn (maize) — Area harvested was 45,230 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Peru, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, green corn (maize) — area harvested in Peru stood at 45,230 ha.
The figure is down 2.0% on the previous year and down 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — area harvested in Peru peaked at 49,424 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 15,390 ha, in 1965.
That places Peru 6th out of 60 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 19,768 ha | 15,390 ha | 25,270 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 25,410 ha | 20,742 ha | 29,542 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 20,710 ha | 18,600 ha | 23,537 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 28,696 ha | 19,684 ha | 43,190 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 44,428 ha | 41,321 ha | 47,419 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 44,445 ha | 40,029 ha | 46,572 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 46,857 ha | 44,059 ha | 49,424 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Peru
- Agriculture share gdp 7.47 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.47 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 14.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 4.98 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.5% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.80 billion current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.34 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — area harvested in Peru?
- Green corn (maize) — area harvested in Peru was 45,230 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — area harvested recorded in Peru?
- The highest recorded value was 49,424 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — area harvested recorded in Peru?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,390 ha in 1965.
- How does Peru rank for green corn (maize) — area harvested?
- Peru ranks 6th out of 60 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — area harvested rising or falling in Peru?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Peru 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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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.