Maize (corn) — Yield in Guinea
Guinea: Maize (corn) — Yield was 1,442 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Guinea, 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 Guinea is 1,442 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 4.6% on the previous year and up 17.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Guinea peaked at 1,658 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 800 kg/ha, in 1965.
That places Guinea 145th 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 | 1,069 kg/ha | 800 kg/ha | 1,159 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,115 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,055 kg/ha | 952 kg/ha | 1,111 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,189 kg/ha | 1,018 kg/ha | 1,376 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,474 kg/ha | 1,079 kg/ha | 1,632 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,361 kg/ha | 1,220 kg/ha | 1,658 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,464 kg/ha | 1,420 kg/ha | 1,511 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guinea
- 142 Ethiopia PDR 1,528 kg/ha compare
- 143 Micronesia (Federated States of) 1,449 kg/ha compare
- 143 Micronesia 1,449 kg/ha compare
- 146 Nicaragua 1,424 kg/ha compare
- 147 Guyana 1,364 kg/ha compare
- 148 Sudan (former) 1,351 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture share gdp 31.29 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 31.29 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
- Rural population 61.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 9.28 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.87 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 231,171 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Guinea?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Guinea was 1,442 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 1,658 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 800 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Guinea rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Guinea ranks 145th out of 178 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea 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.