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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Southern Europe 29,225 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 26,912 kg/ha
- Central Asia 25,572 kg/ha
- Europe 25,239 kg/ha
- Western Europe 21,948 kg/ha
- Western Asia 19,492 kg/ha
- United States of America 17,543 kg/ha
- Northern America 16,997 kg/ha
- Central America 15,337 kg/ha
- Americas 14,408 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 13,193 kg/ha
- South Africa 10,734 kg/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.