Maize (corn) — Yield in Barbados
Barbados: Maize (corn) — Yield was 2,793 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Barbados, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Barbados recorded 2,793 kg/ha for maize (corn) — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and up 3.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Barbados peaked at 3,200 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 1,789 kg/ha, in 1964.
That places Barbados 100th out of 163 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Maize (corn) — Yield in Barbados, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,884 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,511 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 1963 | 1,883 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 1964 | 1,789 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1965 | 1,867 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1966 | 2,075 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1967 | 2,326 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1968 | 2,375 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1969 | 2,403 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1970 | 2,424 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1971 | 2,333 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1972 | 2,728 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1973 | 2,632 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1974 | 2,614 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1975 | 2,614 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 2,614 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 2,614 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 2,614 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 2,614 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,500 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1981 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 2,727 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1985 | 2,500 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1986 | 2,561 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1987 | 2,561 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 2,619 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1989 | 2,619 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 2,674 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1991 | 2,625 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1992 | 2,571 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1993 | 2,667 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1994 | 2,600 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1995 | 2,750 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1996 | 2,667 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1997 | 2,600 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1998 | 2,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 2,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 2,609 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 2,604 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 2,626 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2003 | 2,630 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 2,660 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 2,737 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2006 | 2,700 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2007 | 2,667 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2008 | 2,741 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2009 | 2,827 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2010 | 2,884 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2011 | 2,988 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2012 | 3,200 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2013 | 2,833 kg/ha | -11.5% |
| 2014 | 2,700 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2015 | 2,696 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2016 | 2,756 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2017 | 2,816 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2018 | 2,836 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2019 | 2,839 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 2,832 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 2,816 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2022 | 2,800 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2023 | 2,797 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 2,793 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Barbados compared with similar countries
- Barbados's 2,793 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 7,652 kg/ha, 37% of the median. (42 countries reporting)
- Barbados's 2,793 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 3,084 kg/ha, 91% of the median. (31 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Maize (corn) — Yield in Barbados changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | +33.3% | 1,884 kg/ha | 2,511 kg/ha |
| 1963 | -25.0% | 2,511 kg/ha | 1,883 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,124 kg/ha | 1,789 kg/ha | 2,511 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,580 kg/ha | 2,333 kg/ha | 2,728 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,559 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 2,727 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,635 kg/ha | 2,571 kg/ha | 2,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,680 kg/ha | 2,604 kg/ha | 2,827 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,855 kg/ha | 2,696 kg/ha | 3,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,808 kg/ha | 2,793 kg/ha | 2,832 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Barbados
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -1.03 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0155 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.19 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.3404 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.403 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.6% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Barbados?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Barbados was 2,793 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 3,200 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,789 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Barbados rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Barbados ranks 100th out of 163 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Barbados?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Barbados data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Maize (corn) — 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.