Green corn (maize) — Yield in Uruguay
Uruguay: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 6,931 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Uruguay, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, green corn (maize) — yield in Uruguay stood at 6,931 kg/ha.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 27.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Uruguay peaked at 9,537 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 1,590 kg/ha, in 1970.
That places Uruguay 33rd out of 60 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,876 kg/ha | 1,643 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,634 kg/ha | 1,590 kg/ha | 1,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,789 kg/ha | 1,731 kg/ha | 1,824 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,426 kg/ha | 1,875 kg/ha | 3,024 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,701 kg/ha | 1,944 kg/ha | 6,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,406 kg/ha | 4,557 kg/ha | 9,537 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,936 kg/ha | 6,853 kg/ha | 7,004 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Uruguay
- 30 Australia and New Zealand 9,331 kg/ha compare
- 31 Bulgaria 8,464 kg/ha compare
- 32 Republic of Moldova 7,262 kg/ha compare
- 34 Slovakia 6,755 kg/ha compare
- 35 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6,100 kg/ha compare
- 36 Indonesia 5,381 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Uruguay
- Agriculture share gdp 6.38 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.38 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 4.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 147,108 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.45 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 3,350 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Uruguay?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Uruguay was 6,931 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Uruguay?
- The highest recorded value was 9,537 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Uruguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,590 kg/ha in 1970.
- How does Uruguay rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Uruguay ranks 33rd out of 60 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Uruguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Uruguay 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.