Green corn (maize) — Yield in Japan
Japan: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 9,932 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Japan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, green corn (maize) — yield in Japan stood at 9,932 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.3% on the previous year and down 2.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Japan peaked at 11,415 kg/ha in 1972 and was at its lowest, 8,175 kg/ha, in 2016.
Japan ranks 26th of 60 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,655 kg/ha | 10,093 kg/ha | 11,393 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,948 kg/ha | 10,516 kg/ha | 11,415 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,947 kg/ha | 9,101 kg/ha | 10,477 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,720 kg/ha | 9,185 kg/ha | 10,421 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,726 kg/ha | 9,110 kg/ha | 10,310 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,720 kg/ha | 8,175 kg/ha | 10,391 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,110 kg/ha | 9,803 kg/ha | 10,478 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Japan
- 23 North Macedonia 10,034 kg/ha compare
- 24 Papua New Guinea 10,013 kg/ha compare
- 24 Melanesia 10,013 kg/ha compare
- 27 Thailand 9,654 kg/ha compare
- 28 China 9,565 kg/ha compare
- 28 China, mainland 9,565 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Japan
- Agriculture share gdp 0.9583 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.9583 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 7.7% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.9% (2025)
- Rural population 9.50 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.0% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 40.15 billion current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 17.99 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Japan?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Japan was 9,932 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Japan?
- The highest recorded value was 11,415 kg/ha in 1972.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Japan?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,175 kg/ha in 2016.
- How does Japan rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Japan ranks 26th out of 60 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Japan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Japan 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.