Maize (corn) — Yield in Iraq
Iraq: Maize (corn) — Yield was 5,000 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Iraq, 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 Iraq is 5,000 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 17.5% on the previous year and up 46.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Iraq peaked at 6,061 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 756 kg/ha, in 2000.
Iraq ranks 66th of 163 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.
Maize (corn) — Yield in Iraq, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 949 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 991.5 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1963 | 1,006 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1964 | 1,400 kg/ha | +39.1% |
| 1965 | 1,463 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1966 | 1,079 kg/ha | -26.2% |
| 1967 | 1,117 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1968 | 1,155 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1969 | 1,196 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1970 | 1,230 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1971 | 1,769 kg/ha | +43.9% |
| 1972 | 1,416 kg/ha | -19.9% |
| 1973 | 1,911 kg/ha | +34.9% |
| 1974 | 2,091 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1975 | 2,480 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1976 | 2,010 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 1977 | 2,602 kg/ha | +29.5% |
| 1978 | 2,286 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1979 | 2,496 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1980 | 2,515 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1981 | 2,230 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1982 | 2,365 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1983 | 1,873 kg/ha | -20.8% |
| 1984 | 1,645 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1985 | 1,912 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 1986 | 1,998 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1987 | 1,963 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1988 | 1,571 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1989 | 2,241 kg/ha | +42.7% |
| 1990 | 2,481 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1991 | 2,186 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 1992 | 2,005 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1993 | 1,931 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1994 | 2,133 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1995 | 1,429 kg/ha | -33.0% |
| 1996 | 2,083 kg/ha | +45.8% |
| 1997 | 1,984 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1998 | 2,180 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1999 | 1,917 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 2000 | 756 kg/ha | -60.6% |
| 2001 | 2,361 kg/ha | +212.3% |
| 2002 | 2,443 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2003 | 2,446 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 2,249 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2005 | 2,308 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2006 | 2,426 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2007 | 2,477 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 2,349 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2009 | 2,088 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 2010 | 2,359 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 2011 | 2,608 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 2012 | 3,344 kg/ha | +28.3% |
| 2013 | 4,221 kg/ha | +26.2% |
| 2014 | 3,420 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 2015 | 3,184 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2016 | 3,889 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 2017 | 3,562 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2018 | 4,500 kg/ha | +26.3% |
| 2019 | 4,703 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2020 | 4,632 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2021 | 4,797 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2022 | 5,987 kg/ha | +24.8% |
| 2023 | 6,061 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 5,000 kg/ha | -17.5% |
Iraq compared with similar countries
- Iraq's 5,000 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 4,175 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (46 countries reporting)
- Iraq's 5,000 kg/ha is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 6,000 kg/ha, 83% of the median. (17 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Maize (corn) — Yield in Iraq changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | +212.3% | 756 kg/ha | 2,361 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,151 kg/ha | 949 kg/ha | 1,463 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,029 kg/ha | 1,230 kg/ha | 2,602 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,031 kg/ha | 1,571 kg/ha | 2,515 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,033 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 2,481 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,190 kg/ha | 756 kg/ha | 2,477 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,579 kg/ha | 2,359 kg/ha | 4,703 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,296 kg/ha | 4,632 kg/ha | 6,061 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Iraq
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -8.53 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0341 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 184.67 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3006 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2014)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Iraq?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Iraq was 5,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Iraq?
- The highest recorded value was 6,061 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Iraq?
- The lowest recorded value was 756 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does Iraq rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Iraq ranks 66th out of 163 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Iraq?
- Over the last ten years it is up 46.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Iraq 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.