Green corn (maize) — Yield in Americas
Americas: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 14,408 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, green corn (maize) — yield in Americas stood at 14,408 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 4.6% on the previous year and up 2.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Americas peaked at 16,359 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 7,624 kg/ha, in 1961.
Americas ranks 10th of 28 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,020 kg/ha | 7,624 kg/ha | 8,615 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,297 kg/ha | 8,386 kg/ha | 10,744 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,869 kg/ha | 10,008 kg/ha | 11,684 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,243 kg/ha | 11,000 kg/ha | 12,855 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,903 kg/ha | 13,205 kg/ha | 14,449 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,678 kg/ha | 13,817 kg/ha | 16,359 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,897 kg/ha | 14,408 kg/ha | 15,107 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 191.53 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Americas?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Americas was 14,408 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 16,359 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,624 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Americas rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Americas ranks 10th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Green corn (maize) — Yield. 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.