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Maize and products — Production by country

A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply...

Countries reporting
160
Highest
289,086 1000 t
China
Lowest
0 1000 t
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Median
359.5 1000 t
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
2,585

What the numbers show

Maize and products — Production is currently reported for 160 countries. The highest value is 289,086 1000 t in China; the lowest is 0 1000 t in Micronesia (Federated States of).

The median across all reporting countries is 359.5 1000 t, and the mean is 6,963 1000 t.

Over the past decade 78 countries rose and 59 fell. The largest increase was in United Arab Emirates (up 1,800.0%), and the largest decrease in Cabo Verde (down 100.0%).

Maize and products — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 289,086 1000 t 2023 up 32.2% rising
2 China, mainland 288,842 1000 t 2023 up 32.2% rising
3 Brazil 131,950 1000 t 2023 up 64.4% rising
4 Argentina 41,409 1000 t 2023 up 28.9% rising
5 India 38,085 1000 t 2023 up 57.0% rising
6 Ukraine 31,030 1000 t 2023 up 0.3% rising
7 Mexico 27,550 1000 t 2023 up 21.6% rising
8 Canada 15,076 1000 t 2023 up 6.2% rising
9 Russian Federation 15,000 1000 t 2023 up 28.9% rising
10 Indonesia 14,774 1000 t 2023 down 20.2% falling
11 France 12,835 1000 t 2023 down 14.7% falling
12 Nigeria 11,053 1000 t 2023 up 31.2% rising
13 Ethiopia 10,000 1000 t 2023 up 40.7% rising
14 Pakistan 9,847 1000 t 2023 up 99.2% rising
15 Türkiye 9,000 1000 t 2023 up 52.5% rising
16 Poland 8,982 1000 t 2023 up 122.3% rising
17 Romania 8,744 1000 t 2023 down 22.7% rising
18 Philippines 8,405 1000 t 2023 up 13.9% rising
19 United Republic of Tanzania 8,011 1000 t 2023 up 49.6% rising
20 Egypt 7,130 1000 t 2023 down 10.4% flat
21 Serbia 6,631 1000 t 2023 up 13.1% flat
22 Hungary 6,242 1000 t 2023 down 7.6% falling
23 Italy 5,349 1000 t 2023 down 32.3% falling
24 Thailand 4,954 1000 t 2023 up 1.6% flat
25 Uganda 4,945 1000 t 2023 up 79.9% rising
26 Bangladesh 4,593 1000 t 2023 up 196.7% rising
27 Germany 4,499 1000 t 2023 up 2.6% falling
28 Paraguay 4,492 1000 t 2023 up 9.0% rising
29 Viet Nam 4,437 1000 t 2023 down 14.5% falling
30 Kenya 4,285 1000 t 2023 up 19.3% flat
31 Ghana 3,619 1000 t 2023 up 105.2% rising
32 Malawi 3,510 1000 t 2023 down 3.6% rising
33 Zambia 3,262 1000 t 2023 up 28.8% rising
34 Angola 3,215 1000 t 2023 up 107.6% rising
35 Nepal 2,976 1000 t 2023 up 48.9% rising
36 Spain 2,835 1000 t 2023 down 42.0% falling
37 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,759 1000 t 2023 up 12.3% rising
38 Bulgaria 2,449 1000 t 2023 down 10.6% rising
39 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,336 1000 t 2023 up 17.6% rising
40 Cameroon 2,200 1000 t 2023 up 33.6% rising
40 Myanmar 2,200 1000 t 2023 up 37.4% rising
42 Mozambique 2,125 1000 t 2023 up 81.0% flat
43 Austria 2,105 1000 t 2023 up 28.4% rising
44 Guatemala 2,080 1000 t 2023 up 15.9% rising
45 Burkina Faso 1,995 1000 t 2023 up 25.9% rising
46 Croatia 1,991 1000 t 2023 up 6.2% rising
47 Colombia 1,950 1000 t 2023 up 9.6% flat
48 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,876 1000 t 2018 up 11.5% rising
49 Peru 1,640 1000 t 2023 down 1.8% flat
50 Cambodia 1,480 1000 t 2023 up 59.7% rising
51 Greece 1,417 1000 t 2023 down 37.3% falling
52 Ecuador 1,413 1000 t 2023 up 20.1% rising
53 Republic of Moldova 1,351 1000 t 2023 down 4.8% rising
54 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,257 1000 t 2023 up 37.4% rising
55 Côte d'Ivoire 1,223 1000 t 2023 up 85.0% rising
56 Kazakhstan 1,189 1000 t 2023 up 109.0% rising
57 Slovakia 1,106 1000 t 2023 down 1.5% flat
58 Belarus 1,000 1000 t 2023 down 10.7% rising
59 Guinea 982 1000 t 2023 up 46.1% rising
60 Senegal 929 1000 t 2023 up 311.1% volatile
61 Kyrgyzstan 800 1000 t 2023 up 40.8% rising
62 Uzbekistan 781 1000 t 2023 up 116.9% rising
63 El Salvador 770 1000 t 2023 down 11.2% flat
64 Portugal 767 1000 t 2023 down 17.5% falling
65 Honduras 723 1000 t 2023 up 20.7% rising
66 Bosnia and Herzegovina 698 1000 t 2023 down 12.6% rising
67 Zimbabwe 635 1000 t 2023 down 32.4% flat
68 Syrian Arab Republic 563 1000 t 2023 up 416.5% volatile
69 Australia and New Zealand 551 1000 t 2023 down 22.2% falling
70 Chile 543 1000 t 2023 down 64.3% falling
71 Iraq 538 1000 t 2023 down 35.3% rising
72 Belgium 517 1000 t 2023 down 37.5% falling
73 Czechia 508 1000 t 2023 down 24.7% falling
73 Rwanda 508 1000 t 2023 down 24.0% falling
75 Lao People's Democratic Republic 458 1000 t 2023 down 62.3% falling
76 Caribbean 421 1000 t 2023 down 48.4% falling
77 Albania 409 1000 t 2023 up 9.9% rising
78 Slovenia 389 1000 t 2023 up 71.4% rising
79 Australia 387 1000 t 2023 down 23.7% falling
80 Afghanistan 363 1000 t 2023 up 16.3% falling
81 Nicaragua 356 1000 t 2023 down 27.8% falling
82 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 353 1000 t 2023 down 80.9% volatile
83 Cuba 307 1000 t 2019 down 5.2% flat
84 Azerbaijan 287 1000 t 2023 up 38.0% rising
85 Madagascar 268 1000 t 2023 down 29.7% falling
86 Uruguay 266 1000 t 2023 down 61.6% rising
87 China, Taiwan Province of 244 1000 t 2023 up 83.5% rising
88 Sri Lanka 221 1000 t 2023 up 5.7% rising
89 Tajikistan 200 1000 t 2023 up 14.3% rising
90 Georgia 191 1000 t 2023 down 47.5% falling
91 Haiti 180 1000 t 2023 down 46.4% falling
92 New Zealand 164 1000 t 2023 down 18.8% falling
93 Panama 160 1000 t 2023 up 21.2% rising
94 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 152 1000 t 2023 down 17.8% falling
95 Switzerland 135 1000 t 2023 up 8.9% flat
96 North Macedonia 133 1000 t 2023 down 1.5% rising
97 Lesotho 127 1000 t 2023 up 47.7% volatile
98 Belize 112 1000 t 2023 up 55.6% rising
99 Namibia 106 1000 t 2023 up 165.0% rising
100 Lithuania 91 1000 t 2023 down 28.3% rising
100 Republic of Korea 91 1000 t 2023 up 13.8% rising
102 Eswatini 85 1000 t 2023 down 28.6% rising
102 Timor-Leste 85 1000 t 2023 down 15.8% falling
104 Dominican Republic 82 1000 t 2023 up 82.2% rising
105 Saudi Arabia 64 1000 t 2023 down 32.6% volatile
106 Morocco 60 1000 t 2023 down 49.2% volatile
106 Yemen 60 1000 t 2023 down 20.0% falling
108 Israel 51 1000 t 2023 down 53.6% falling
109 Gabon 46 1000 t 2023 up 7.0% rising
110 Denmark 41 1000 t 2023 down 46.1% falling
111 Botswana 33 1000 t 2023 up 725.0% volatile
112 Gambia 26 1000 t 2023 down 21.2% falling
112 Kuwait 26 1000 t 2023 down 3.7% volatile
114 Bhutan 25 1000 t 2023 — falling
114 Sierra Leone 25 1000 t 2023 down 37.5% falling
116 Guinea-Bissau 21 1000 t 2023 up 200.0% rising
117 Comoros 20 1000 t 2023 up 233.3% volatile
118 United Arab Emirates 19 1000 t 2023 up 1,800.0% volatile
118 Melanesia 19 1000 t 2023 up 5.6% rising
120 Sweden 16 1000 t 2023 up 220.0% rising
121 Mauritania 15 1000 t 2023 up 150.0% flat
122 Niger 14 1000 t 2023 down 22.2% volatile
123 Congo 13 1000 t 2023 up 18.2% rising
123 Papua New Guinea 13 1000 t 2023 up 8.3% rising
125 Algeria 12 1000 t 2023 up 1,100.0% volatile
126 Costa Rica 7 1000 t 2023 down 50.0% falling
127 Armenia 6 1000 t 2023 down 71.4% volatile
128 Trinidad and Tobago 5 1000 t 2023 up 66.7% rising
129 Guyana 4 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
129 Libya 4 1000 t 2023 up 33.3% rising
129 Turkmenistan 4 1000 t 2023 down 92.3% volatile
132 Lebanon 3 1000 t 2023 unchanged falling
132 Montenegro 3 1000 t 2023 unchanged rising
132 New Caledonia 3 1000 t 2023 down 25.0% rising
135 Fiji 2 1000 t 2023 up 100.0% volatile
135 Jamaica 2 1000 t 2023 down 33.3% falling
135 Mauritius 2 1000 t 2023 up 100.0% volatile
135 Oman 2 1000 t 2023 down 85.7% flat
135 Qatar 2 1000 t 2023 — rising
140 Bahamas 1 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
140 Luxembourg 1 1000 t 2023 down 50.0% volatile
140 Malaysia 1 1000 t 2023 down 98.8% falling
140 Sao Tome and Principe 1 1000 t 2023 unchanged falling
140 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
140 Vanuatu 1 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
146 Antigua and Barbuda 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Barbados 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Djibouti 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Estonia 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Grenada 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Ireland 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Jordan 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Saint Lucia 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Latvia 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Maldives 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Malta 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Suriname 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Micronesia 0 1000 t 2023 — flat
146 Cabo Verde 0 1000 t 2023 down 100.0% volatile
146 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0 1000 t 2023 — flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Maize and products — Production
Unit
1000 t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
191 places, 2,585 data points, 2010–2023
Last refreshed

A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.