Green corn (maize) — Yield in Barbados
Barbados: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 3,612 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Barbados, 1990–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Barbados recorded 3,612 kg/ha for green corn (maize) — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 2.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Barbados peaked at 4,121 kg/ha in 1995 and was at its lowest, 3,279 kg/ha, in 2012.
Barbados ranks 42nd of 53 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 35 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Barbados, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 3,360 kg/ha | — |
| 1991 | 3,360 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 3,473 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1993 | 3,600 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1994 | 3,883 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1995 | 4,121 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1996 | 4,121 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 4,062 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1998 | 4,062 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 4,062 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 4,018 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2001 | 4,000 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2002 | 4,048 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 4,118 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2004 | 4,000 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2005 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 3,882 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2009 | 3,735 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2010 | 3,617 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2011 | 3,510 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2012 | 3,279 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2013 | 3,468 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2014 | 3,529 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2015 | 3,557 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 3,587 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 3,591 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 3,593 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 3,593 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 3,594 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 3,603 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 3,606 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 3,609 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 3,612 kg/ha | +0.1% |
Barbados compared with similar countries
- Barbados's 3,612 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 9,198 kg/ha, 39% of the median. (26 countries reporting)
- Barbados's 3,612 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 5,272 kg/ha, 69% of the median. (12 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3,811 kg/ha | 3,360 kg/ha | 4,121 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,980 kg/ha | 3,735 kg/ha | 4,118 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,533 kg/ha | 3,279 kg/ha | 3,617 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,605 kg/ha | 3,594 kg/ha | 3,612 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Barbados
More agriculture & rural data for Barbados
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -1.03 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0155 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.19 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.3404 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.403 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.6% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Barbados?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Barbados was 3,612 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 4,121 kg/ha in 1995.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,279 kg/ha in 2012.
- How does Barbados rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Barbados ranks 42nd out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Barbados?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Barbados 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.