Green corn (maize) — Yield in Western Europe
Western Europe: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 21,948 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Western Europe, 1988–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Western Europe recorded 21,948 kg/ha for green corn (maize) — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 37 years on record.
That represents a change of up 17.0% on the previous year and up 12.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in Western Europe peaked at 21,948 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 14,230 kg/ha, in 1992.
Western Europe ranks 5th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 37 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in Western Europe, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 17,333 kg/ha | — |
| 1989 | 16,875 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1990 | 17,059 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1991 | 16,036 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1992 | 14,230 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1993 | 16,835 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 1994 | 16,552 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1995 | 17,930 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1996 | 18,898 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1997 | 16,889 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1998 | 18,870 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1999 | 17,187 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2000 | 18,387 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2001 | 18,797 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2002 | 16,757 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2003 | 15,929 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2004 | 18,220 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 2005 | 18,845 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2006 | 18,419 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2007 | 19,162 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2008 | 18,663 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2009 | 19,186 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2010 | 18,476 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2011 | 19,266 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2012 | 18,342 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2013 | 17,607 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2014 | 19,443 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2015 | 20,760 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2016 | 18,899 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 2017 | 20,090 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2018 | 20,097 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 20,117 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 18,044 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 2021 | 20,621 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 2022 | 18,778 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2023 | 18,751 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 21,948 kg/ha | +17.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 17,104 kg/ha | 16,875 kg/ha | 17,333 kg/ha | 2 |
| 1990s | 17,049 kg/ha | 14,230 kg/ha | 18,898 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,237 kg/ha | 15,929 kg/ha | 19,186 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,310 kg/ha | 17,607 kg/ha | 20,760 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,628 kg/ha | 18,044 kg/ha | 21,948 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Europe
- 2 Croatia 26,679 kg/ha compare
- 3 Kazakhstan 25,572 kg/ha compare
- 4 Panama 25,116 kg/ha compare
- 4 Republic of Moldova 7,262 kg/ha compare
- 5 France 22,331 kg/ha compare
- 5 Micronesia 3,776 kg/ha compare
- 6 Israel 21,957 kg/ha compare
- 6 United Republic of Tanzania 3,658 kg/ha compare
- 7 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,795 kg/ha compare
- 7 Serbia 20,442 kg/ha compare
- 8 Palestine 19,220 kg/ha compare
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- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -3.23 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -14.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.5427 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Milk, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -0.0607 % change on previous year (2024)
- Non Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 17.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -2.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.55 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 4.62 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in Western Europe?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in Western Europe was 21,948 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Western Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 21,948 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in Western Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,230 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Western Europe rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- Western Europe ranks 5th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in Western Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western Europe 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.