Maize (corn) — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Maize (corn) — Yield was 1,250 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Caribbean, 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 Caribbean is 1,250 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 18.6% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Caribbean peaked at 1,655 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 853.6 kg/ha, in 1993.
That places Caribbean 152nd out of 178 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,053 kg/ha | 1,012 kg/ha | 1,077 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,037 kg/ha | 889.2 kg/ha | 1,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,029 kg/ha | 941.4 kg/ha | 1,148 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 944.27 kg/ha | 853.6 kg/ha | 1,175 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,315 kg/ha | 1,063 kg/ha | 1,475 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,304 kg/ha | 1,047 kg/ha | 1,655 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,147 kg/ha | 1,054 kg/ha | 1,250 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 136,188 t (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 168,261 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.91 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 13,712 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 1.91 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Caribbean?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Caribbean was 1,250 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 1,655 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 853.6 kg/ha in 1993.
- How does Caribbean rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 152nd out of 178 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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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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.