Maize (corn) — Yield by country
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...
What the numbers show
Maize (corn) — Yield is currently reported for 181 countries. The highest value is 22,474 kg/ha in United Arab Emirates; the lowest is 600 kg/ha in Botswana.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,656 kg/ha, and the mean is 4,698 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 37.
Over the past decade 112 countries rose and 66 fell. The largest increase was in Sierra Leone (up 182.3%), and the largest decrease in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (down 60.8%).
Maize (corn) — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | 22,474 kg/ha | 2024 | up 57.8% | rising |
| 1 | Türkiye | 10,261 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Qatar | 19,241 kg/ha | 2024 | up 53.6% | rising |
| 2 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 6,665 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Kuwait | 16,873 kg/ha | 2024 | down 45.1% | volatile |
| 4 | Tajikistan | 15,840 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.3% | volatile |
| 4 | Syrian Arab Republic | 5,684 kg/ha | 2024 | up 108.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Israel | 15,692 kg/ha | 2024 | down 54.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Viet Nam | 5,107 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 13,344 kg/ha | 2024 | down 45.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 4,974 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 7 | New Caledonia | 12,449 kg/ha | 2024 | up 120.2% | volatile |
| 7 | Melanesia | 4,499 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.3% | rising |
| 8 | Spain | 12,115 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 8 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 4,339 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 9 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 12,108 kg/ha | 1999 | up 55.6% | rising |
| 9 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 3,932 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.0% | rising |
| 10 | Uzbekistan | 11,915 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 10 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 2,528 kg/ha | 2024 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 11 | Mauritius | 11,890 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.3% | volatile |
| 11 | Timor-Leste | 2,064 kg/ha | 2024 | down 25.6% | rising |
| 12 | New Zealand | 11,301 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 13 | Azerbaijan | 10,814 kg/ha | 2024 | up 99.6% | rising |
| 13 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,756 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 14 | Chile | 10,806 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 14 | Republic of Moldova | 1,622 kg/ha | 2024 | down 51.6% | rising |
| 15 | Canada | 10,588 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 16 | Germany | 10,053 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | rising |
| 16 | Micronesia | 1,449 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 16 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 1,449 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 17 | Switzerland | 9,979 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.2% | rising |
| 18 | Italy | 9,974 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | rising |
| 19 | Austria | 9,900 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.3% | rising |
| 19 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 769 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.9% | rising |
| 20 | Greece | 9,674 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 21 | Portugal | 9,477 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Bangladesh | 9,246 kg/ha | 2024 | up 33.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Côte d'Ivoire | 2,564 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.3% | rising |
| 23 | France | 9,204 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.4% | rising |
| 24 | Slovenia | 9,196 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 25 | Jordan | 8,890 kg/ha | 1990 | up 16.2% | volatile |
| 26 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 8,451 kg/ha | 2024 | down 38.5% | rising |
| 27 | Belgium | 8,328 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.7% | falling |
| 28 | Czechia | 8,142 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.4% | rising |
| 28 | Caribbean | 1,250 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 29 | Réunion | 7,895 kg/ha | 2006 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 29 | Cabo Verde | 40.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.5% | volatile |
| 30 | Lithuania | 7,875 kg/ha | 2024 | up 30.1% | volatile |
| 31 | Bahamas | 7,737 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.9% | volatile |
| 32 | Egypt | 7,585 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 33 | Croatia | 7,567 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 34 | Kyrgyzstan | 7,325 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 35 | Poland | 7,224 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 36 | Slovakia | 7,223 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.9% | rising |
| 37 | Australia and New Zealand | 7,146 kg/ha | 2024 | down 15.8% | rising |
| 38 | Saudi Arabia | 7,134 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.2% | volatile |
| 39 | Albania | 7,124 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 40 | Denmark | 6,886 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.6% | rising |
| 41 | Luxembourg | 6,880 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.1% | falling |
| 42 | Sweden | 6,769 kg/ha | 2024 | up 63.3% | rising |
| 43 | Ukraine | 6,600 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 44 | China, mainland | 6,592 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 45 | China | 6,591 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 46 | Argentina | 6,581 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 47 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6,250 kg/ha | 2024 | up 32.9% | rising |
| 48 | Kazakhstan | 6,198 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 49 | Pakistan | 6,133 kg/ha | 2024 | up 41.9% | volatile |
| 50 | Cambodia | 6,086 kg/ha | 2024 | up 74.6% | volatile |
| 51 | China, Taiwan Province of | 6,005 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 52 | Algeria | 6,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 129.3% | volatile |
| 53 | Hungary | 5,999 kg/ha | 2024 | down 23.3% | rising |
| 54 | Australia | 5,950 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.2% | rising |
| 55 | Indonesia | 5,940 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.9% | volatile |
| 56 | Russian Federation | 5,836 kg/ha | 2024 | up 33.9% | rising |
| 57 | Serbia and Montenegro | 5,814 kg/ha | 2005 | up 36.9% | rising |
| 58 | Republic of Korea | 5,713 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 59 | Belarus | 5,667 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 60 | Brazil | 5,426 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 61 | Papua New Guinea | 5,405 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.5% | volatile |
| 62 | Yugoslav SFR | 5,336 kg/ha | 1991 | up 25.0% | rising |
| 63 | Armenia | 5,188 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.8% | rising |
| 64 | Serbia | 5,172 kg/ha | 2024 | down 31.2% | rising |
| 65 | Oman | 5,055 kg/ha | 2024 | down 25.4% | volatile |
| 66 | Iraq | 5,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 46.2% | rising |
| 67 | South Africa | 4,874 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Uruguay | 4,699 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.1% | volatile |
| 69 | Thailand | 4,661 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 70 | North Macedonia | 4,603 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 71 | Ecuador | 4,365 kg/ha | 2024 | up 27.1% | volatile |
| 72 | Colombia | 4,343 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 73 | Czechoslovakia | 4,312 kg/ha | 1992 | down 19.1% | rising |
| 74 | Malaysia | 4,178 kg/ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 75 | Maldives | 4,172 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | volatile |
| 76 | Paraguay | 4,150 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 77 | Suriname | 4,024 kg/ha | 2024 | up 66.5% | rising |
| 78 | Panama | 4,007 kg/ha | 2024 | up 56.6% | volatile |
| 79 | Myanmar | 3,928 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | volatile |
| 80 | Belize | 3,820 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 81 | Mexico | 3,704 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 82 | Bhutan | 3,670 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 83 | Peru | 3,656 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 84 | Montenegro | 3,645 kg/ha | 2024 | down 28.3% | rising |
| 85 | India | 3,545 kg/ha | 2024 | up 36.9% | rising |
| 86 | Puerto Rico | 3,498 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.6% | volatile |
| 87 | Nepal | 3,487 kg/ha | 2024 | up 41.8% | rising |
| 88 | Ethiopia | 3,444 kg/ha | 2024 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 89 | Fiji | 3,318 kg/ha | 2024 | up 68.9% | rising |
| 90 | Philippines | 3,313 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.3% | volatile |
| 91 | USSR | 3,293 kg/ha | 1991 | up 23.8% | rising |
| 92 | Bulgaria | 3,250 kg/ha | 2024 | down 57.7% | rising |
| 93 | El Salvador | 3,084 kg/ha | 2024 | up 18.3% | rising |
| 94 | Sri Lanka | 3,074 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 95 | Georgia | 3,070 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.7% | rising |
| 96 | Lebanon | 2,996 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | volatile |
| 97 | Turkmenistan | 2,960 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | volatile |
| 98 | Romania | 2,829 kg/ha | 2024 | down 40.9% | rising |
| 99 | Senegal | 2,814 kg/ha | 2024 | up 130.5% | rising |
| 100 | Barbados | 2,793 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 101 | Ghana | 2,772 kg/ha | 2024 | up 60.3% | rising |
| 102 | Japan | 2,685 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 103 | Trinidad and Tobago | 2,570 kg/ha | 2003 | down 22.9% | falling |
| 104 | Mali | 2,473 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 105 | Guatemala | 2,259 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 106 | Libya | 2,219 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 107 | Zambia | 2,208 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.6% | rising |
| 108 | Uganda | 2,174 kg/ha | 2024 | down 16.4% | rising |
| 109 | Djibouti | 2,041 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 110 | Nigeria | 2,030 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 111 | Sao Tome and Principe | 2,004 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.0% | rising |
| 112 | Malawi | 2,000 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.3% | rising |
| 112 | Guadeloupe | 2,000 kg/ha | 1977 | unchanged | falling |
| 114 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1,963 kg/ha | 2024 | up 24.0% | falling |
| 115 | Afghanistan | 1,926 kg/ha | 2024 | down 22.6% | rising |
| 116 | Dominican Republic | 1,916 kg/ha | 2024 | up 29.0% | flat |
| 117 | Cuba | 1,913 kg/ha | 2024 | down 17.0% | rising |
| 118 | Costa Rica | 1,898 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 119 | Honduras | 1,896 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 120 | Rwanda | 1,834 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 121 | Cameroon | 1,833 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 122 | Madagascar | 1,833 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 123 | Comoros | 1,720 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.7% | rising |
| 124 | Sierra Leone | 1,704 kg/ha | 2024 | up 182.3% | rising |
| 125 | Dominica | 1,690 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 126 | Burkina Faso | 1,682 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.0% | rising |
| 127 | Kenya | 1,666 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 128 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 1,570 kg/ha | 1980 | down 60.8% | falling |
| 129 | Yemen | 1,567 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.7% | falling |
| 130 | Gabon | 1,561 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 131 | Ethiopia PDR | 1,528 kg/ha | 1992 | down 16.9% | rising |
| 132 | Guinea | 1,442 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 133 | Nicaragua | 1,424 kg/ha | 2023 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 134 | Guyana | 1,364 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 135 | Sudan (former) | 1,351 kg/ha | 2011 | up 83.1% | rising |
| 136 | Jamaica | 1,342 kg/ha | 2024 | up 18.6% | flat |
| 137 | Chad | 1,273 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.3% | falling |
| 138 | Togo | 1,256 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 139 | Burundi | 1,226 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.7% | rising |
| 140 | Niger | 1,215 kg/ha | 2024 | down 31.0% | rising |
| 141 | Benin | 1,190 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.9% | rising |
| 142 | Angola | 1,189 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.5% | rising |
| 143 | Eswatini | 1,071 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.5% | rising |
| 144 | Congo | 1,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 144 | Eritrea | 1,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 144 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,000 kg/ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 144 | French Guiana | 1,000 kg/ha | 2006 | up 41.4% | volatile |
| 148 | Grenada | 996.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 149 | Sudan | 970.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.6% | falling |
| 150 | South Sudan | 964.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 151 | Namibia | 933 kg/ha | 2024 | down 41.7% | rising |
| 152 | Gambia | 932.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.0% | flat |
| 153 | Mozambique | 810 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 154 | Haiti | 769.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | falling |
| 155 | Central African Republic | 740.7 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.4% | rising |
| 156 | Zimbabwe | 729.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 157 | Morocco | 722.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 158 | Saint Lucia | 700 kg/ha | 1979 | down 21.6% | falling |
| 159 | Somalia | 690 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 160 | Mauritania | 642.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.7% | rising |
| 161 | Vanuatu | 636.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 162 | Lesotho | 632.7 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 163 | Botswana | 600 kg/ha | 2024 | up 119.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- United States of America 11,257 kg/ha
- Northern America 11,229 kg/ha
- Western Europe 9,420 kg/ha
- Asia 5,854 kg/ha
- Western Asia 8,806 kg/ha
- Central Asia 8,204 kg/ha
- Americas 7,882 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 7,676 kg/ha
- Northern Europe 7,424 kg/ha
- Oceania 7,006 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 6,795 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 6,788 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 6,557 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1,942 kg/ha
- Europe 6,363 kg/ha
- World 5,802 kg/ha
- South America 5,593 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 1,493 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 5,498 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 4,689 kg/ha
- Southern Africa 4,560 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 1,109 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 3,995 kg/ha
- Central America 3,364 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 2,583 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2,278 kg/ha
- Africa 2,070 kg/ha
- Western Africa 1,979 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 1,903 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1,854 kg/ha
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.