Maize (corn) — Yield in Nepal
Nepal: Maize (corn) — Yield was 3,487 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Nepal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, maize (corn) — yield in Nepal stood at 3,487 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 10.1% on the previous year and up 41.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Nepal peaked at 3,487 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,332 kg/ha, in 1979.
That places Nepal 93rd out of 178 countries 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 | 1,890 kg/ha | 1,810 kg/ha | 1,956 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,712 kg/ha | 1,332 kg/ha | 1,870 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,477 kg/ha | 1,338 kg/ha | 1,624 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,650 kg/ha | 1,598 kg/ha | 1,711 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,965 kg/ha | 1,728 kg/ha | 2,205 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,474 kg/ha | 2,119 kg/ha | 2,820 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,165 kg/ha | 2,961 kg/ha | 3,487 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nepal
- 90 Montenegro 3,645 kg/ha compare
- 91 India 3,545 kg/ha compare
- 92 Puerto Rico 3,498 kg/ha compare
- 94 Ethiopia 3,444 kg/ha compare
- 95 Fiji 3,318 kg/ha compare
- 96 Philippines 3,313 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Nepal
- Agriculture share gdp 21.56 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.56 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2022)
- Rural population 33.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 9.77 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.81 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 383,285 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Nepal?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Nepal was 3,487 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The highest recorded value was 3,487 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,332 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does Nepal rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Nepal ranks 93rd out of 178 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Nepal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 41.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nepal 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.