Green corn (maize) — Yield in Samoa
Samoa: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 522.7 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Samoa, 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 Samoa is 522.7 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 3.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Samoa peaked at 600 kg/ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 300 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Samoa 52nd 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 Samoa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 300 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 333.3 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1963 | 333.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 333.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 350 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1966 | 363.6 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1967 | 363.6 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 391.3 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1969 | 400 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1970 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 440 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1972 | 400 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1973 | 440 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1974 | 444.4 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1975 | 464.3 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1976 | 482.8 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1977 | 500 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1978 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 485.7 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1980 | 513.5 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1981 | 513.5 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 526.3 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1983 | 526.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 523.8 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1985 | 522.7 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1986 | 521.7 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1987 | 520.8 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1988 | 520 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1989 | 519.2 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1990 | 500 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1991 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 511.1 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1993 | 531.9 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1994 | 511.1 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1995 | 516.5 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1996 | 500 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1997 | 507.6 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1998 | 501.4 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1999 | 501.6 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 506 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2001 | 507.8 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 497.1 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2003 | 509.1 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2004 | 515.1 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2005 | 527.6 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 555.6 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2007 | 600 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2008 | 588.2 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2009 | 543.8 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 2010 | 532.9 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2011 | 529.1 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2012 | 500 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2013 | 537.1 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2014 | 540.9 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 519.2 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2016 | 532 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2017 | 530.8 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 531.2 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 531.8 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 531.9 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 528.8 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2022 | 524.3 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2023 | 523.3 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2024 | 522.7 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Samoa compared with similar countries
- Samoa's 522.7 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 10,331 kg/ha, 5% of the median. (17 countries reporting)
- Samoa's 522.7 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 7,473 kg/ha, 7% of the median. (10 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 352.04 kg/ha | 300 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 455.72 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 520.78 kg/ha | 513.5 kg/ha | 526.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 508.12 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 531.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 535.03 kg/ha | 497.1 kg/ha | 600 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 528.5 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 540.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 526.2 kg/ha | 522.7 kg/ha | 531.9 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Samoa
- 49 Trinidad and Tobago 980.7 kg/ha compare
- 50 Jamaica 928.3 kg/ha compare
- 51 Puerto Rico 911.2 kg/ha compare
- 53 Brunei Darussalam 349.4 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Samoa
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 1.65 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0909 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 533.81 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.586 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8249 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Samoa?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Samoa was 522.7 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Samoa?
- The highest recorded value was 600 kg/ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Samoa?
- The lowest recorded value was 300 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Samoa rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Samoa ranks 52nd out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Samoa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Samoa 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.