Green corn (maize) — Yield in United States of America
United States of America: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 17,543 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in United States of America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, green corn (maize) — yield in United States of America stood at 17,543 kg/ha.
The figure is down 8.8% on the previous year and up 7.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in United States of America peaked at 21,621 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 8,222 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places United States of America 7th out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in United States of America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,222 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,480 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1963 | 8,773 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1964 | 8,538 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1965 | 8,834 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1966 | 8,997 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1967 | 9,352 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1968 | 9,965 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1969 | 9,698 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1970 | 9,445 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1971 | 9,884 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1972 | 10,193 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1973 | 10,205 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1974 | 9,691 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1975 | 10,142 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1976 | 10,353 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1977 | 10,993 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1978 | 11,517 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1979 | 11,878 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1980 | 11,583 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1981 | 11,857 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1982 | 12,261 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1983 | 11,275 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1984 | 12,042 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1985 | 12,267 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1986 | 12,405 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1987 | 13,087 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1988 | 11,232 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 1989 | 13,104 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1990 | 13,098 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1991 | 12,829 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1992 | 13,227 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1993 | 12,048 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1994 | 14,618 kg/ha | +21.3% |
| 1995 | 13,954 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1996 | 14,219 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1997 | 14,444 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 14,541 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1999 | 14,613 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2000 | 15,331 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2001 | 15,581 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2002 | 15,914 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2003 | 16,815 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2004 | 16,216 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2005 | 17,030 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2006 | 17,430 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2007 | 17,212 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2008 | 16,146 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2009 | 17,012 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2010 | 15,993 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2011 | 15,982 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 16,895 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2013 | 16,420 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2014 | 16,278 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2015 | 21,621 kg/ha | +32.8% |
| 2016 | 17,018 kg/ha | -21.3% |
| 2017 | 18,250 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2018 | 17,367 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2019 | 18,064 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2020 | 18,188 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2021 | 17,926 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2022 | 18,512 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2023 | 19,229 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2024 | 17,543 kg/ha | -8.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,984 kg/ha | 8,222 kg/ha | 9,965 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,430 kg/ha | 9,445 kg/ha | 11,878 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,111 kg/ha | 11,232 kg/ha | 13,104 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,759 kg/ha | 12,048 kg/ha | 14,618 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,469 kg/ha | 15,331 kg/ha | 17,430 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,389 kg/ha | 15,982 kg/ha | 21,621 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 18,280 kg/ha | 17,543 kg/ha | 19,229 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in United States of America?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in United States of America was 17,543 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in United States of America?
- The highest recorded value was 21,621 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in United States of America?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,222 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does United States of America rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- United States of America ranks 7th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in United States of America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this United States of 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.