Maize (corn) — Yield in Colombia
Colombia: Maize (corn) — Yield was 4,343 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Colombia, 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 Colombia is 4,343 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 7.6% on the previous year and up 21.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Colombia peaked at 4,343 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,002 kg/ha, in 1965.
Colombia ranks 76th of 178 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,101 kg/ha | 1,002 kg/ha | 1,254 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,313 kg/ha | 1,228 kg/ha | 1,414 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,401 kg/ha | 1,332 kg/ha | 1,483 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,598 kg/ha | 1,450 kg/ha | 1,796 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,526 kg/ha | 2,076 kg/ha | 2,771 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,236 kg/ha | 2,723 kg/ha | 3,742 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,112 kg/ha | 3,988 kg/ha | 4,343 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Colombia
- 73 North Macedonia 4,603 kg/ha compare
- 74 Melanesia 4,499 kg/ha compare
- 75 Ecuador 4,365 kg/ha compare
- 77 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 4,339 kg/ha compare
- 78 Czechoslovakia 4,312 kg/ha compare
- 79 Malaysia 4,178 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Colombia
- Agriculture share gdp 9.95 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.95 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 21.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 11.34 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 45.49 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.64 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Colombia?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Colombia was 4,343 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,343 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,002 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Colombia rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Colombia ranks 76th out of 178 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Colombia 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.