Green corn (maize) — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 18,799 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in El Salvador, 2005–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, green corn (maize) — yield in El Salvador stood at 18,799 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 14.2% on the previous year and up 61.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in El Salvador peaked at 23,478 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 9,680 kg/ha, in 2005.
That places El Salvador 9th out of 53 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 20 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 9,680 kg/ha | — |
| 2006 | 9,681 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 10,453 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2008 | 10,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 11,789 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 2010 | 11,789 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 11,517 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2012 | 11,615 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2013 | 11,540 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2014 | 11,664 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 11,527 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2016 | 13,362 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 2017 | 14,342 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2018 | 11,713 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2019 | 23,478 kg/ha | +100.4% |
| 2020 | 21,389 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2021 | 19,593 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2022 | 14,808 kg/ha | -24.4% |
| 2023 | 16,458 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2024 | 18,799 kg/ha | +14.2% |
El Salvador compared with similar countries
- El Salvador's 18,799 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 10,331 kg/ha, 1.8× the median. (17 countries reporting)
- El Salvador's 18,799 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 5,272 kg/ha, 3.6× the median. (12 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Green corn (maize) — Yield in El Salvador changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | +100.4% | 11,713 kg/ha | 23,478 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 10,411 kg/ha | 9,680 kg/ha | 11,789 kg/ha | 5 |
| 2010s | 13,254 kg/ha | 11,517 kg/ha | 23,478 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 18,209 kg/ha | 14,808 kg/ha | 21,389 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near El Salvador
- 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 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 El Salvador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in El Salvador?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in El Salvador was 18,799 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 23,478 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,680 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does El Salvador rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 9th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 61.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.