Green corn (maize) — Yield 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
60
Highest
39,681 kg/ha
Greece
Lowest
349.4 kg/ha
Brunei Darussalam
Median
8,898 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,888

What the numbers show

Green corn (maize) — Yield is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 39,681 kg/ha in Greece; the lowest is 349.4 kg/ha in Brunei Darussalam.

The median across all reporting countries is 8,898 kg/ha, and the mean is 9,684 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 114.

Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Caribbean (up 105.8%), and the largest decrease in Switzerland (down 86.0%).

Green corn (maize) — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Greece 39,681 kg/ha 2017 up 12.1% rising
2 Croatia 26,679 kg/ha 2022 up 3.4% rising
3 Kazakhstan 25,572 kg/ha 2024 up 3.3% rising
4 Panama 25,116 kg/ha 2024 up 67.2% rising
5 France 22,331 kg/ha 2024 up 14.0% rising
6 Israel 21,957 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
7 Serbia 20,442 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% flat
8 Palestine 19,220 kg/ha 2022 up 46.7% rising
9 El Salvador 18,799 kg/ha 2024 up 61.2% rising
10 Jordan 18,127 kg/ha 2024 up 12.0% rising
11 Austria 17,982 kg/ha 2017 down 1.1% flat
12 Mexico 15,192 kg/ha 2024 up 19.8% rising
13 Chile 15,002 kg/ha 2024 down 0.8% rising
14 Hungary 14,138 kg/ha 2017 down 15.9% rising
15 Ukraine 14,000 kg/ha 2024 down 13.7% rising
16 Serbia and Montenegro 13,544 kg/ha 2005 up 3.5% flat
17 Canada 12,367 kg/ha 2024 up 9.9% rising
18 Qatar 12,299 kg/ha 2024 down 0.2% rising
19 Mauritius 11,890 kg/ha 2024 up 31.3% rising
20 Australia 11,760 kg/ha 2024 up 1.8% rising
21 Poland 11,460 kg/ha 2017 down 6.1% rising
22 Peru 10,331 kg/ha 2024 up 16.4% rising
23 North Macedonia 10,034 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
24 Melanesia 10,013 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% flat
24 Papua New Guinea 10,013 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% flat
26 Japan 9,932 kg/ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
27 Thailand 9,654 kg/ha 2024 up 6.2% rising
28 China, mainland 9,565 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% rising
28 China 9,565 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% rising
30 Australia and New Zealand 9,331 kg/ha 2024 down 2.9% flat
31 Bulgaria 8,464 kg/ha 2017 up 23.9% rising
32 Republic of Moldova 7,262 kg/ha 2024 up 13.9% rising
33 Uruguay 6,931 kg/ha 2024 down 27.3% volatile
34 Slovakia 6,755 kg/ha 2017 up 103.8% rising
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6,100 kg/ha 2024 up 3.9% flat
36 Indonesia 5,381 kg/ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
37 New Zealand 5,364 kg/ha 2024 down 36.4% falling
38 Norway 4,500 kg/ha 2024 down 6.2% falling
39 French Polynesia 3,982 kg/ha 2024 down 9.5% falling
40 Nigeria 3,972 kg/ha 2024 up 5.3% rising
41 Micronesia 3,776 kg/ha 2024 up 24.1% rising
41 Nauru 3,776 kg/ha 2024 up 24.1% rising
43 Liberia 3,710 kg/ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
44 United Republic of Tanzania 3,658 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% flat
45 Barbados 3,612 kg/ha 2024 up 2.3% falling
46 Antigua and Barbuda 3,562 kg/ha 2024 rising
47 Romania 3,366 kg/ha 2017 up 42.7% rising
48 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,795 kg/ha 2024 up 7.7% flat
49 Caribbean 2,791 kg/ha 2024 up 105.8% falling
50 Zimbabwe 2,450 kg/ha 2024 up 4.0% rising
51 Côte d'Ivoire 2,414 kg/ha 2024 down 13.0% falling
52 Grenada 2,333 kg/ha 2024 up 52.3% rising
53 Guinea 2,145 kg/ha 2024 down 3.2% rising
54 Switzerland 1,544 kg/ha 2024 down 86.0% volatile
55 Trinidad and Tobago 980.7 kg/ha 2024 down 24.0% volatile
56 Jamaica 928.3 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% volatile
57 Puerto Rico 911.2 kg/ha 2024 up 2.3% rising
58 Polynesia 711.7 kg/ha 2024 up 31.6% rising
59 Samoa 522.7 kg/ha 2024 down 3.4% rising
60 Brunei Darussalam 349.4 kg/ha 2024 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Green corn (maize) — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
88 places, 3,888 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.