Maize (corn) — Yield in Belize
Belize: Maize (corn) — Yield was 3,820 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Belize, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for maize (corn) — yield in Belize is 3,820 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Belize peaked at 4,666 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 487.3 kg/ha, in 1966.
That places Belize 80th 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 Belize, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 574.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 582.5 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1963 | 614.3 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1964 | 546.9 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1965 | 655.2 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 1966 | 487.3 kg/ha | -25.6% |
| 1967 | 1,114 kg/ha | +128.6% |
| 1968 | 1,060 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1969 | 1,086 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1970 | 1,569 kg/ha | +44.5% |
| 1971 | 1,549 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1972 | 1,322 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 1973 | 1,640 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 1974 | 1,121 kg/ha | -31.7% |
| 1975 | 1,041 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1976 | 1,444 kg/ha | +38.7% |
| 1977 | 1,346 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1978 | 1,721 kg/ha | +27.8% |
| 1979 | 1,524 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1980 | 1,789 kg/ha | +17.4% |
| 1981 | 1,844 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1982 | 1,926 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1983 | 1,700 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1984 | 1,371 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 1985 | 1,385 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1986 | 1,604 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1987 | 1,602 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1988 | 1,541 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1989 | 1,585 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1990 | 1,896 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 1991 | 2,755 kg/ha | +45.3% |
| 1992 | 2,224 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 1993 | 2,086 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1994 | 1,921 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1995 | 1,789 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1996 | 2,502 kg/ha | +39.9% |
| 1997 | 2,213 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1998 | 2,621 kg/ha | +18.5% |
| 1999 | 2,751 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2000 | 2,237 kg/ha | -18.7% |
| 2001 | 3,008 kg/ha | +34.4% |
| 2002 | 2,334 kg/ha | -22.4% |
| 2003 | 2,705 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 2004 | 2,207 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 2005 | 2,619 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 2006 | 2,488 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2007 | 2,636 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2008 | 2,354 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 2009 | 2,541 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2010 | 2,926 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 2011 | 3,224 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2012 | 3,661 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 2013 | 3,441 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2014 | 3,655 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2015 | 2,863 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 2016 | 2,977 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2017 | 4,559 kg/ha | +53.1% |
| 2018 | 4,206 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2019 | 2,754 kg/ha | -34.5% |
| 2020 | 3,582 kg/ha | +30.1% |
| 2021 | 4,513 kg/ha | +26.0% |
| 2022 | 4,666 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2023 | 3,820 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 2024 | 3,820 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Belize compared with similar countries
- Belize's 3,820 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 4,175 kg/ha, 91% of the median. (46 countries reporting)
- Belize's 3,820 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 3,084 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (31 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Maize (corn) — Yield in Belize 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | +128.6% | 487.3 kg/ha | 1,114 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 746.73 kg/ha | 487.3 kg/ha | 1,114 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,428 kg/ha | 1,041 kg/ha | 1,721 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,635 kg/ha | 1,371 kg/ha | 1,926 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,276 kg/ha | 1,789 kg/ha | 2,755 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,513 kg/ha | 2,207 kg/ha | 3,008 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,427 kg/ha | 2,754 kg/ha | 4,559 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,080 kg/ha | 3,582 kg/ha | 4,666 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Belize
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0795 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 610.5 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.74 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5844 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.9% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Belize?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Belize was 3,820 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 4,666 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 487.3 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Belize rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Belize ranks 80th out of 163 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Belize 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.