Green corn (maize) — Yield in Liberia
Liberia: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 3,710 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Liberia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for green corn (maize) — yield in Liberia is 3,710 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Liberia peaked at 3,952 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 2,632 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Liberia 41st out of 53 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Liberia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,632 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,684 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1963 | 2,710 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1964 | 2,737 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1965 | 2,692 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1966 | 2,718 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1967 | 2,700 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1968 | 2,750 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1969 | 2,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 2,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 2,775 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 2,775 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 2,805 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1974 | 2,854 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1975 | 2,857 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1976 | 2,976 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1977 | 2,954 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1978 | 3,000 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1979 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 3,044 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1981 | 3,065 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1982 | 3,021 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1983 | 3,040 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1984 | 3,100 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1985 | 3,077 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1986 | 3,077 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 3,077 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 3,077 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 3,077 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 3,000 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1991 | 3,017 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1992 | 3,022 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 3,027 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1994 | 3,032 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 3,037 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1996 | 3,042 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1997 | 3,046 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 3,051 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1999 | 3,055 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 3,058 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2001 | 3,061 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 3,064 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 3,066 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 3,068 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 3,072 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 3,000 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2007 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 3,157 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2009 | 3,253 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2010 | 3,363 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2011 | 3,482 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2012 | 3,952 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 2013 | 3,651 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2014 | 3,597 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2015 | 3,701 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2016 | 3,506 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2017 | 3,555 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 3,609 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2019 | 3,652 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 3,673 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 3,675 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 3,685 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 3,698 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 3,710 kg/ha | +0.3% |
Liberia compared with similar countries
- Liberia's 3,710 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,841 kg/ha, 97% of the median. (6 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,708 kg/ha | 2,632 kg/ha | 2,750 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,875 kg/ha | 2,750 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,065 kg/ha | 3,021 kg/ha | 3,100 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,033 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 3,055 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,080 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 3,253 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,607 kg/ha | 3,363 kg/ha | 3,952 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,688 kg/ha | 3,673 kg/ha | 3,710 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Liberia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3265 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 298.89 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8615 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4392 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 32.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 32.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 63.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Liberia?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Liberia was 3,710 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Liberia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,952 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Liberia?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,632 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Liberia rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Liberia ranks 41st out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Liberia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Liberia 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.