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 26 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.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Northern America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,081 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,339 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1963 | 8,553 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1964 | 8,290 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1965 | 8,590 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1966 | 8,718 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1967 | 9,066 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1968 | 9,617 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1969 | 9,372 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1970 | 9,156 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1971 | 9,767 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1972 | 9,846 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1973 | 9,986 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 9,503 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1975 | 10,016 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1976 | 10,186 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1977 | 10,864 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1978 | 11,282 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1979 | 11,688 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1980 | 11,383 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1981 | 11,573 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1982 | 11,986 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 10,966 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1984 | 11,784 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1985 | 11,959 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1986 | 11,983 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1987 | 12,830 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1988 | 10,887 kg/ha | -15.1% |
| 1989 | 12,658 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 1990 | 12,673 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1991 | 12,436 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1992 | 12,822 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1993 | 11,720 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1994 | 14,247 kg/ha | +21.6% |
| 1995 | 13,587 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1996 | 13,720 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1997 | 14,047 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1998 | 14,113 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1999 | 14,173 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 14,650 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2001 | 14,869 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2002 | 15,222 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2003 | 16,175 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2004 | 15,726 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2005 | 16,428 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2006 | 16,878 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2007 | 16,646 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2008 | 15,673 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2009 | 16,577 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2010 | 15,566 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2011 | 15,456 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2012 | 16,352 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2013 | 15,919 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2014 | 15,853 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2015 | 20,573 kg/ha | +29.8% |
| 2016 | 16,452 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 2017 | 17,712 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2018 | 16,890 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2019 | 17,470 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2020 | 17,571 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 17,308 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2022 | 17,849 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2023 | 18,437 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2024 | 16,997 kg/ha | -7.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Green corn (maize) — Yield in Northern America 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | +29.8% | 15,853 kg/ha | 20,573 kg/ha |
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 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
- 5 France 22,331 kg/ha compare
- 5 Micronesia 3,776 kg/ha compare
- 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 El Salvador 18,799 kg/ha compare
- 9 Polynesia 711.7 kg/ha compare
- 10 Jordan 18,127 kg/ha compare
- 11 Austria 17,982 kg/ha compare
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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 26 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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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.