Green corn (maize) — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 3,581 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 3,581 kg/ha for green corn (maize) — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 3,897 kg/ha in 1989 and was at its lowest, 3,294 kg/ha, in 1974.
Eastern Africa ranks 21st of 26 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,462 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,518 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1963 | 3,488 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1964 | 3,529 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1965 | 3,571 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1966 | 3,590 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1967 | 3,590 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 3,590 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 3,571 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1970 | 3,556 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1971 | 3,542 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1972 | 3,529 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1973 | 3,509 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1974 | 3,294 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1975 | 3,429 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1976 | 3,636 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1977 | 3,667 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1978 | 3,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 3,710 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1980 | 3,750 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1981 | 3,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 3,710 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1983 | 3,790 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1984 | 3,810 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1985 | 3,828 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1986 | 3,846 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1987 | 3,864 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 3,881 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1989 | 3,897 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1990 | 3,626 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 1991 | 3,637 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1992 | 3,630 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1993 | 3,666 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1994 | 3,648 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1995 | 3,628 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1996 | 3,613 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1997 | 3,583 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1998 | 3,666 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1999 | 3,659 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2000 | 3,672 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 3,685 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 3,803 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2003 | 3,660 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2004 | 3,604 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2005 | 3,613 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 3,595 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2007 | 3,604 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 3,498 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2009 | 3,476 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 3,320 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2011 | 3,499 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2012 | 3,518 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 3,558 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 3,536 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 3,489 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 3,520 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 3,516 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 3,511 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 3,513 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 3,521 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 3,546 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2022 | 3,549 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 3,586 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2024 | 3,581 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,546 kg/ha | 3,462 kg/ha | 3,590 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,554 kg/ha | 3,294 kg/ha | 3,710 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,813 kg/ha | 3,710 kg/ha | 3,897 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,636 kg/ha | 3,583 kg/ha | 3,666 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,621 kg/ha | 3,476 kg/ha | 3,803 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,498 kg/ha | 3,320 kg/ha | 3,558 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,557 kg/ha | 3,521 kg/ha | 3,586 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Eastern Africa was 3,581 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3,897 kg/ha in 1989.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,294 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 21st out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.