Green corn (maize) — Yield in Northern America
Northern America: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 16,997 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Northern America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Northern America recorded 16,997 kg/ha for green corn (maize) — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 7.8% on the previous year and up 7.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Northern America peaked at 20,573 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 8,081 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Northern America 8th out of 28 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,736 kg/ha | 8,081 kg/ha | 9,617 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,229 kg/ha | 9,156 kg/ha | 11,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,801 kg/ha | 10,887 kg/ha | 12,830 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,354 kg/ha | 11,720 kg/ha | 14,247 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,884 kg/ha | 14,650 kg/ha | 16,878 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,824 kg/ha | 15,456 kg/ha | 20,573 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,632 kg/ha | 16,997 kg/ha | 18,437 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Northern America
- Bananas — Area harvested 334 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 77,565 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 3,561 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 175,300 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 14.89 million t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 968,025 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 151.17 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 3.56 million t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 88.89 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 151.17 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Northern America?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Northern America was 16,997 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 20,573 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,081 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Northern America rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Northern America ranks 8th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern America 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.