Green corn (maize) — Yield in South America
South America: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 9,962 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in South America, 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 South America is 9,962 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 6.4% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in South America peaked at 9,962 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,409 kg/ha, in 1968.
South America ranks 14th of 28 groups on this measure, 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 | 4,969 kg/ha | 4,409 kg/ha | 5,306 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,326 kg/ha | 5,005 kg/ha | 5,973 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,218 kg/ha | 5,531 kg/ha | 7,153 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,468 kg/ha | 7,046 kg/ha | 8,036 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,650 kg/ha | 8,126 kg/ha | 9,325 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,064 kg/ha | 8,754 kg/ha | 9,450 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,576 kg/ha | 9,293 kg/ha | 9,962 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
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- Swine / pigs — Stocks 75.21 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 20.74 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.00 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 132,585 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 62,811 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 8.33 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 747,608 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 401,333 ha (2024)
- Milk, Total — Production 69.74 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,181 g/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in South America?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in South America was 9,962 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 9,962 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,409 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does South America rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- South America ranks 14th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South 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.