Maize (corn) — Yield in Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia: Maize (corn) — Yield was 6,557 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Eastern Asia, 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 Eastern Asia is 6,557 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.9% on the previous year and up 13.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Eastern Asia peaked at 6,557 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,228 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Eastern Asia 13th out of 33 groups 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,594 kg/ha | 1,228 kg/ha | 1,952 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,453 kg/ha | 1,950 kg/ha | 3,009 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,642 kg/ha | 3,087 kg/ha | 3,987 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,786 kg/ha | 4,323 kg/ha | 5,208 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,035 kg/ha | 4,546 kg/ha | 5,510 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,903 kg/ha | 5,427 kg/ha | 6,294 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,400 kg/ha | 6,260 kg/ha | 6,557 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Asia
- 10 Uzbekistan 11,915 kg/ha compare
- 11 Mauritius 11,890 kg/ha compare
- 12 New Zealand 11,301 kg/ha compare
- 13 Azerbaijan 10,814 kg/ha compare
- 14 Chile 10,806 kg/ha compare
- 15 Canada 10,588 kg/ha compare
- 16 Türkiye 10,261 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Asia
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 454.78 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 2.38 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 1.10 million ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 325,506 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 12.10 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 62.75 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 56,071 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.12 million ha (2024)
- Oilcrops, Cake Equivalent — Production 42.25 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Production 30.92 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Eastern Asia?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Eastern Asia was 6,557 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 6,557 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,228 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Eastern Asia rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Eastern Asia ranks 13th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Asia 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.