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 28 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.
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
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 2.05 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 67,514 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 215,845 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 9.27 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 32,019 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 5.12 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 50,692 kg/ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 25.03 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 82 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 100,964 ha (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 28 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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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.