Green corn (maize) — Yield in World
World: Green corn (maize) — Yield was 8,801 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Yield in World, 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 World is 8,801 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 3.7% on the previous year and down 7.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — yield in World peaked at 10,422 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 5,241 kg/ha, in 1964.
World ranks 16th of 26 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.
Green corn (maize) — Yield in World, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,371 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,572 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1963 | 5,691 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1964 | 5,241 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1965 | 5,509 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1966 | 5,609 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1967 | 5,702 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1968 | 5,917 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1969 | 5,708 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1970 | 5,508 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1971 | 5,848 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1972 | 5,945 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1973 | 6,153 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1974 | 6,221 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1975 | 6,386 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1976 | 6,614 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1977 | 6,991 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1978 | 7,278 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1979 | 7,426 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1980 | 7,218 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1981 | 7,400 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1982 | 7,524 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1983 | 6,787 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1984 | 7,153 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1985 | 6,972 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1986 | 6,978 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1987 | 7,672 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1988 | 7,009 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1989 | 7,708 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1990 | 8,065 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1991 | 7,807 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1992 | 7,824 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 7,467 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1994 | 8,265 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1995 | 8,020 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1996 | 8,171 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1997 | 8,394 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1998 | 8,525 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1999 | 8,536 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 8,977 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2001 | 9,243 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2002 | 9,258 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 9,364 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 9,297 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2005 | 9,300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 9,714 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2007 | 9,723 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 9,763 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2009 | 9,812 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2010 | 9,378 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2011 | 9,375 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 9,437 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 9,636 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2014 | 9,552 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2015 | 10,422 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2016 | 9,839 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2017 | 9,766 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 9,288 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2019 | 9,068 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2020 | 8,981 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2021 | 9,106 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2022 | 8,896 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2023 | 9,139 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2024 | 8,801 kg/ha | -3.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,591 kg/ha | 5,241 kg/ha | 5,917 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,437 kg/ha | 5,508 kg/ha | 7,426 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,242 kg/ha | 6,787 kg/ha | 7,708 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,108 kg/ha | 7,467 kg/ha | 8,536 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,445 kg/ha | 8,977 kg/ha | 9,812 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,576 kg/ha | 9,068 kg/ha | 10,422 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,984 kg/ha | 8,801 kg/ha | 9,139 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — yield in World?
- Green corn (maize) — yield in World was 8,801 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in World?
- The highest recorded value was 10,422 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — yield recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,241 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does World rank for green corn (maize) — yield?
- World ranks 16th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — yield rising or falling in World?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this World 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.