Green corn (maize) — Yield in Central America
Central America: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 15,337 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Central America, 1980–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 15,337 kg/ha for green corn (maize) — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 21.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Central America peaked at 15,556 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 8,972 kg/ha, in 2005.
Central America ranks 9th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 45 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9,621 kg/ha | — |
| 1981 | 9,090 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1982 | 10,427 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 1983 | 10,702 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1984 | 10,749 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1985 | 10,652 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1986 | 10,979 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1987 | 9,008 kg/ha | -18.0% |
| 1988 | 9,292 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1989 | 10,367 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1990 | 9,193 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1991 | 9,584 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1992 | 9,918 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1993 | 9,605 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1994 | 9,323 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1995 | 9,734 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1996 | 10,710 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1997 | 9,643 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1998 | 9,967 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1999 | 10,492 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2000 | 11,181 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2001 | 12,540 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2002 | 11,699 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2003 | 11,645 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2004 | 9,774 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 2005 | 8,972 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2006 | 9,488 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2007 | 11,008 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 2008 | 10,813 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2009 | 9,906 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2010 | 11,540 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 2011 | 12,151 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2012 | 12,511 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2013 | 12,509 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2014 | 12,639 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 12,560 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2016 | 12,810 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2017 | 15,340 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 2018 | 15,518 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2019 | 15,381 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2020 | 14,824 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2021 | 15,540 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2022 | 15,556 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 15,319 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2024 | 15,337 kg/ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 10,089 kg/ha | 9,008 kg/ha | 10,979 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,817 kg/ha | 9,193 kg/ha | 10,710 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,703 kg/ha | 8,972 kg/ha | 12,540 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,296 kg/ha | 11,540 kg/ha | 15,518 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,315 kg/ha | 14,824 kg/ha | 15,556 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
- 6 Israel 21,957 kg/ha compare
- 6 United Republic of Tanzania 3,658 kg/ha compare
- 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
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.22 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -1.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -3.58 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -10.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -1.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.7054 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4048 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -9.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.8347 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Central America?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Central America was 15,337 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 15,556 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,972 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does Central America rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Central America ranks 9th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America 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.