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 26 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.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,624 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,839 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1963 | 7,944 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 7,712 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1965 | 7,913 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1966 | 7,854 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1967 | 8,110 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1968 | 8,615 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1969 | 8,568 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1970 | 8,386 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1971 | 8,824 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1972 | 8,870 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1973 | 8,997 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 8,642 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1975 | 9,062 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1976 | 9,242 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1977 | 9,832 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1978 | 10,366 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1979 | 10,744 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1980 | 10,509 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1981 | 10,940 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1982 | 11,165 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1983 | 10,362 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1984 | 10,775 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1985 | 10,893 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1986 | 10,903 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1987 | 11,456 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1988 | 10,008 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 1989 | 11,684 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1990 | 11,752 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 11,625 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1992 | 11,956 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1993 | 11,000 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1994 | 12,855 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1995 | 12,336 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1996 | 12,604 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1997 | 12,682 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 12,795 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1999 | 12,821 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 13,205 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2001 | 13,495 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2002 | 13,721 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2003 | 14,449 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2004 | 13,658 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2005 | 13,912 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2006 | 14,217 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2007 | 14,421 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2008 | 13,666 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2009 | 14,289 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2010 | 13,827 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2011 | 13,817 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 14,398 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2013 | 14,037 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2014 | 13,998 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2015 | 16,359 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 2016 | 14,277 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 2017 | 15,695 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2018 | 15,126 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2019 | 15,246 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 15,107 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 15,099 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 14,764 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2023 | 15,106 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2024 | 14,408 kg/ha | -4.6% |
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
- 7 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,795 kg/ha compare
- 7 Serbia 20,442 kg/ha compare
- 8 Palestine 19,220 kg/ha compare
- 9 El Salvador 18,799 kg/ha compare
- 9 Polynesia 711.7 kg/ha compare
- 10 Jordan 18,127 kg/ha compare
- 11 Austria 17,982 kg/ha compare
- 12 Mexico 15,192 kg/ha compare
- 13 Chile 15,002 kg/ha compare
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- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.8368 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.12 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.7578 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7575 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (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 26 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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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.