Green corn (maize) — Yield in Canada
Canada: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 12,367 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Canada, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Canada recorded 12,367 kg/ha for green corn (maize) — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 7.7% on the previous year and up 9.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Canada peaked at 12,367 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,232 kg/ha, in 1963.
Canada ranks 17th of 60 countries 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 | 6,581 kg/ha | 6,232 kg/ha | 6,968 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,498 kg/ha | 6,896 kg/ha | 10,076 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,448 kg/ha | 8,526 kg/ha | 10,777 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,877 kg/ha | 8,842 kg/ha | 10,776 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,167 kg/ha | 8,398 kg/ha | 11,363 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,989 kg/ha | 10,064 kg/ha | 11,699 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,864 kg/ha | 11,484 kg/ha | 12,367 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Canada
- Agriculture share gdp 1.93 (2022)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.93 (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 17.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 7.13 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.9% (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 42.53 billion current US$ (2022)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 27,780 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Canada?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Canada was 12,367 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 12,367 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,232 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Canada rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Canada ranks 17th out of 60 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Canada 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.