Green corn (maize) — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 10,734 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Southern Africa, 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 Southern Africa is 10,734 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and up 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 10,734 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 8,880 kg/ha, in 1982.
Southern Africa ranks 12th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,867 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1963 | 10,267 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1964 | 10,000 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1965 | 10,062 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1966 | 10,000 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1967 | 9,882 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1968 | 9,941 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 10,353 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1970 | 10,111 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1971 | 9,778 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1972 | 9,833 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1973 | 10,389 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1974 | 10,333 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1975 | 10,263 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1976 | 10,632 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1977 | 10,200 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1978 | 10,000 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1979 | 10,450 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1980 | 10,500 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1981 | 10,182 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1982 | 8,880 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1983 | 9,320 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1984 | 9,360 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1985 | 9,240 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1986 | 9,720 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1987 | 9,746 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1988 | 9,140 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1989 | 9,336 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1990 | 10,262 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1991 | 9,680 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1992 | 9,626 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1993 | 9,593 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1994 | 9,598 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 9,607 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 9,626 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1997 | 9,673 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1998 | 9,645 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1999 | 9,642 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2000 | 9,645 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 9,634 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 9,631 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2003 | 9,612 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2004 | 9,620 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 9,614 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 9,538 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2007 | 9,652 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2008 | 9,712 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 9,785 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 9,871 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2011 | 10,000 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2012 | 10,206 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 10,287 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2014 | 10,278 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 10,296 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 10,334 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 10,387 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 10,420 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 10,439 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 10,452 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 10,578 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 10,634 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 10,684 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 10,734 kg/ha | +0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,041 kg/ha | 9,867 kg/ha | 10,353 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,199 kg/ha | 9,778 kg/ha | 10,632 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,542 kg/ha | 8,880 kg/ha | 10,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,695 kg/ha | 9,593 kg/ha | 10,262 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,644 kg/ha | 9,538 kg/ha | 9,785 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,252 kg/ha | 9,871 kg/ha | 10,439 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,616 kg/ha | 10,452 kg/ha | 10,734 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Southern Africa?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Southern Africa was 10,734 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 10,734 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,880 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Southern Africa rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 12th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.