Green corn (maize) — Yield in Mauritius
Mauritius: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 11,890 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Mauritius, 1990–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, green corn (maize) — yield in Mauritius stood at 11,890 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 35 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.2% on the previous year and up 31.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Mauritius peaked at 11,890 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,047 kg/ha, in 2018.
Mauritius ranks 19th of 53 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Mauritius, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 6,471 kg/ha | — |
| 1991 | 6,616 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1992 | 6,316 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1993 | 6,686 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1994 | 6,726 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 6,766 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 6,806 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 6,500 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1998 | 6,879 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1999 | 6,522 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2000 | 6,947 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2001 | 6,980 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2002 | 7,017 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 6,556 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2004 | 6,474 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2005 | 7,540 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 2006 | 7,793 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2007 | 10,491 kg/ha | +34.6% |
| 2008 | 7,541 kg/ha | -28.1% |
| 2009 | 8,000 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2010 | 6,833 kg/ha | -14.6% |
| 2011 | 7,442 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2012 | 7,121 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2013 | 6,796 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2014 | 9,058 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 2015 | 6,352 kg/ha | -29.9% |
| 2016 | 6,773 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2017 | 7,492 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 2018 | 6,047 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 2019 | 7,174 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 2020 | 8,942 kg/ha | +24.7% |
| 2021 | 8,641 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2022 | 9,301 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2023 | 11,630 kg/ha | +25.1% |
| 2024 | 11,890 kg/ha | +2.2% |
Mauritius compared with similar countries
- Mauritius's 11,890 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 10,331 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (17 countries reporting)
- Mauritius's 11,890 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,841 kg/ha, 3.1× the median. (6 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 6,629 kg/ha | 6,316 kg/ha | 6,879 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,534 kg/ha | 6,474 kg/ha | 10,491 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,109 kg/ha | 6,047 kg/ha | 9,058 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,081 kg/ha | 8,641 kg/ha | 11,890 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritius
More agriculture & rural data for Mauritius
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 17.99 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0462 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 599.72 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.1976 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6096 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Mauritius?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Mauritius was 11,890 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Mauritius?
- The highest recorded value was 11,890 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Mauritius?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,047 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Mauritius rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Mauritius ranks 19th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Mauritius?
- Over the last ten years it is up 31.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mauritius 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.