Maize (corn) — Yield in Egypt
Egypt: Maize (corn) — Yield was 7,585 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Egypt, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Egypt recorded 7,585 kg/ha for maize (corn) — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and down 2.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Egypt peaked at 8,370 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 2,401 kg/ha, in 1961.
Egypt ranks 32nd of 178 countries on this measure, in the top 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 | 3,196 kg/ha | 2,401 kg/ha | 4,070 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,712 kg/ha | 3,579 kg/ha | 3,910 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,566 kg/ha | 4,037 kg/ha | 5,380 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,478 kg/ha | 5,780 kg/ha | 7,517 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,846 kg/ha | 6,980 kg/ha | 8,370 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,348 kg/ha | 4,951 kg/ha | 7,790 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,664 kg/ha | 7,508 kg/ha | 7,828 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture share gdp 16.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
- Rural population 57.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 67.58 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 60.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.25 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Egypt?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Egypt was 7,585 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 8,370 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,401 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Egypt rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Egypt ranks 32nd out of 178 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.