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 24th of 28 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
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 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Africa
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 205,889 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 641,088 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.08 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 546,014 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 3.49 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 12.53 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 16,968 kg/ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 23.97 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 63,544 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 42 kg/An (2024)
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 24th out of 28 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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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.