Maize (corn) — Yield in Mozambique
Mozambique: Maize (corn) — Yield was 810 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Mozambique, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, maize (corn) — yield in Mozambique stood at 810 kg/ha.
The figure is up 2.5% on the previous year and up 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Mozambique peaked at 1,498 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 158.7 kg/ha, in 1992.
That places Mozambique 153rd out of 163 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.
Maize (corn) — Yield in Mozambique, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 870.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 825 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1963 | 887.5 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1964 | 900 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1965 | 928.6 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1966 | 956.5 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1967 | 1,000 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1968 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 953.5 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1970 | 1,131 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1971 | 939.4 kg/ha | -16.9% |
| 1972 | 1,024 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1973 | 808.8 kg/ha | -21.0% |
| 1974 | 661.8 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 1975 | 416.7 kg/ha | -37.0% |
| 1976 | 750 kg/ha | +80.0% |
| 1977 | 716.7 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1978 | 700 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1979 | 644.6 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1980 | 542.9 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 1981 | 528.6 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1982 | 437.5 kg/ha | -17.2% |
| 1983 | 412.5 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1984 | 437.5 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1985 | 444.4 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1986 | 459 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1987 | 271 kg/ha | -41.0% |
| 1988 | 322 kg/ha | +18.8% |
| 1989 | 330 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1990 | 448 kg/ha | +35.8% |
| 1991 | 324.1 kg/ha | -27.7% |
| 1992 | 158.7 kg/ha | -51.0% |
| 1993 | 633.2 kg/ha | +299.0% |
| 1994 | 520.7 kg/ha | -17.8% |
| 1995 | 679.4 kg/ha | +30.5% |
| 1996 | 939.5 kg/ha | +38.3% |
| 1997 | 903.3 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1998 | 900.6 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1999 | 1,160 kg/ha | +28.8% |
| 2000 | 939.9 kg/ha | -18.9% |
| 2001 | 958 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2002 | 706.5 kg/ha | -26.3% |
| 2003 | 871.1 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 2004 | 808.5 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2005 | 495 kg/ha | -38.8% |
| 2006 | 838.7 kg/ha | +69.4% |
| 2007 | 681.3 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 2008 | 617.7 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2009 | 1,000 kg/ha | +61.9% |
| 2010 | 1,202 kg/ha | +20.2% |
| 2011 | 1,202 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,498 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 2013 | 681.4 kg/ha | -54.5% |
| 2014 | 796.7 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 2015 | 803.6 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2016 | 732.3 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2017 | 740 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 871.9 kg/ha | +17.8% |
| 2019 | 883.1 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 713.9 kg/ha | -19.2% |
| 2021 | 1,100 kg/ha | +54.1% |
| 2022 | 1,311 kg/ha | +19.2% |
| 2023 | 790.4 kg/ha | -39.7% |
| 2024 | 810 kg/ha | +2.5% |
Mozambique compared with similar countries
- Mozambique's 810 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 1,273 kg/ha, 64% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
- Mozambique's 810 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,273 kg/ha, 64% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Maize (corn) — Yield in Mozambique 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | +299.0% | 158.7 kg/ha | 633.2 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 924.63 kg/ha | 825 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 779.28 kg/ha | 416.7 kg/ha | 1,131 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 418.54 kg/ha | 271 kg/ha | 542.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 666.71 kg/ha | 158.7 kg/ha | 1,160 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 791.67 kg/ha | 495 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 941.14 kg/ha | 681.4 kg/ha | 1,498 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 945.04 kg/ha | 713.9 kg/ha | 1,311 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mozambique
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.2557 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2557 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 160.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.63 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6279 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 25.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 25.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Mozambique?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Mozambique was 810 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The highest recorded value was 1,498 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The lowest recorded value was 158.7 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Mozambique rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Mozambique ranks 153rd out of 163 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Mozambique?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mozambique 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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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.