Green corn (maize) — Production 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) — Production is currently reported for 62 countries. The highest value is 1.07 million t in Mexico; the lowest is 0.56 t in Nauru.
The median across all reporting countries is 24,663 t, and the mean is 143,377 t.
Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Caribbean (up 1,861.1%), and the largest decrease in China, Taiwan Province of (down 96.8%).
Green corn (maize) — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | 1.07 million t | 2024 | up 31.9% | volatile |
| 2 | Croatia | 901,590 t | 2024 | down 11.2% | rising |
| 3 | Nigeria | 799,511 t | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 4 | Greece | 612,502 t | 2017 | up 85.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Melanesia | 251,429 t | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 5 | Indonesia | 599,226 t | 2024 | up 26.2% | rising |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 52,419 t | 2024 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 6 | Hungary | 517,779 t | 2017 | down 3.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 26,465 t | 2024 | up 21.2% | volatile |
| 7 | Peru | 467,270 t | 2024 | up 15.8% | volatile |
| 7 | Republic of Moldova | 4,350 t | 2024 | down 14.7% | rising |
| 8 | France | 459,300 t | 2024 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 8 | Polynesia | 40.32 t | 2024 | up 39.9% | rising |
| 9 | South Africa | 418,357 t | 2024 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 9 | Micronesia | 0.56 t | 2024 | down 23.3% | falling |
| 10 | Thailand | 358,255 t | 2024 | up 33.2% | volatile |
| 11 | Guinea | 302,462 t | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 12 | Papua New Guinea | 251,429 t | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 13 | Japan | 207,311 t | 2024 | down 16.9% | falling |
| 14 | Canada | 198,739 t | 2024 | down 9.9% | flat |
| 15 | China | 194,159 t | 2024 | up 15.6% | volatile |
| 15 | China, mainland | 194,159 t | 2024 | up 15.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Chile | 153,701 t | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 18 | Australia and New Zealand | 101,951 t | 2024 | down 40.7% | rising |
| 19 | Côte d'Ivoire | 184,729 t | 2024 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 19 | Australia | 79,690 t | 2024 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 20 | Ukraine | 61,600 t | 2024 | down 46.4% | volatile |
| 21 | Poland | 60,007 t | 2017 | up 230.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Serbia | 50,929 t | 2024 | up 84.9% | rising |
| 23 | El Salvador | 44,348 t | 2024 | up 25.2% | rising |
| 23 | Caribbean | 41,452 t | 2024 | up 1,861.1% | volatile |
| 24 | Israel | 43,671 t | 2024 | down 58.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Serbia and Montenegro | 30,800 t | 2005 | up 274.8% | volatile |
| 26 | Liberia | 24,992 t | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 27 | Jordan | 24,335 t | 2024 | up 157.1% | rising |
| 28 | New Zealand | 22,260 t | 2024 | down 76.3% | volatile |
| 29 | Palestine | 18,866 t | 2022 | up 70.5% | rising |
| 30 | Romania | 15,264 t | 2017 | up 49.6% | rising |
| 31 | Austria | 14,925 t | 2017 | up 35.2% | rising |
| 32 | Slovakia | 7,498 t | 2017 | up 6.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Panama | 5,400 t | 2024 | down 46.4% | falling |
| 34 | Zimbabwe | 4,366 t | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 35 | Bulgaria | 4,156 t | 2017 | up 220.2% | volatile |
| 36 | Mauritius | 1,289 t | 2024 | up 106.2% | volatile |
| 37 | Qatar | 1,075 t | 2024 | up 8.4% | volatile |
| 38 | Uruguay | 1,051 t | 2024 | down 17.8% | falling |
| 39 | Kazakhstan | 870.24 t | 2024 | up 8.8% | volatile |
| 40 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 736.08 t | 2024 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 41 | Puerto Rico | 621.34 t | 2024 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 42 | Trinidad and Tobago | 611 t | 2024 | down 31.1% | volatile |
| 43 | Barbados | 605.06 t | 2024 | up 0.8% | volatile |
| 44 | Switzerland | 596 t | 2024 | down 69.4% | volatile |
| 45 | Norway | 180 t | 2024 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 46 | North Macedonia | 95.2 t | 2024 | up 0.1% | volatile |
| 47 | Jamaica | 56.4 t | 2024 | up 7.5% | volatile |
| 48 | Brunei Darussalam | 42.55 t | 2024 | up 8.1% | volatile |
| 49 | Grenada | 42 t | 2024 | down 19.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Antigua and Barbuda | 34.45 t | 2024 | — | rising |
| 51 | Samoa | 27.99 t | 2024 | down 2.9% | rising |
| 52 | French Polynesia | 12.33 t | 2024 | down 44.0% | falling |
| 53 | China, Taiwan Province of | 10 t | 2014 | down 96.8% | volatile |
| 54 | Nauru | 0.56 t | 2024 | down 23.3% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 9.46 million t
- Asia 1.44 million t
- Americas 4.40 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 379,873 t
- Northern America 2.59 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 294,211 t
- United States of America 2.39 million t
- Africa 1.79 million t
- Europe 1.48 million t
- European Union (27) 1.36 million t
- Western Africa 1.31 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.14 million t
- Central America 1.12 million t
- South-Eastern Asia 957,523 t
- Southern Europe 953,350 t
- South America 648,487 t
- Western Europe 459,896 t
- Southern Africa 418,357 t
- Eastern Asia 401,471 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 384,238 t
- Oceania 353,421 t
- Western Asia 79,268 t
- Eastern Europe 65,950 t
- Eastern Africa 58,074 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 36,146 t
- Central Asia 870.24 t
- Northern Europe 180 t
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.