Maize (corn) — Yield in Somalia
Somalia: Maize (corn) — Yield was 690 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Somalia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Somalia recorded 690 kg/ha for maize (corn) — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 27.4% on the previous year and up 5.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Somalia peaked at 1,790 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 414.9 kg/ha, in 1994.
Somalia ranks 159th of 163 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Maize (corn) — Yield in Somalia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 869.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 866.7 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1963 | 864.7 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1964 | 866.1 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1965 | 866.1 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 860.7 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1967 | 833.3 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1968 | 814.8 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1969 | 824.8 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1970 | 914.3 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1971 | 971.2 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1972 | 979.2 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1973 | 975.9 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 975.8 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1975 | 979.2 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1976 | 904.2 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1977 | 739 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 1978 | 724.3 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1979 | 733.6 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 1,009 kg/ha | +37.6% |
| 1981 | 720.8 kg/ha | -28.6% |
| 1982 | 717.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1983 | 1,078 kg/ha | +50.3% |
| 1984 | 1,228 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1985 | 1,195 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1986 | 1,372 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1987 | 1,103 kg/ha | -19.6% |
| 1988 | 1,256 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1989 | 1,129 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1990 | 859 kg/ha | -23.9% |
| 1991 | 1,000 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1992 | 954.4 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1993 | 987.5 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1994 | 414.9 kg/ha | -58.0% |
| 1995 | 830.4 kg/ha | +100.1% |
| 1996 | 620.2 kg/ha | -25.3% |
| 1997 | 709.5 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 1998 | 572.7 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 1999 | 711.8 kg/ha | +24.3% |
| 2000 | 1,460 kg/ha | +105.1% |
| 2001 | 1,427 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2002 | 1,427 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1,363 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2004 | 1,094 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 2005 | 1,176 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2006 | 1,053 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 2007 | 1,111 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2008 | 1,176 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2009 | 1,530 kg/ha | +30.0% |
| 2010 | 1,510 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2011 | 1,790 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 2012 | 1,766 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 1,210 kg/ha | -31.5% |
| 2014 | 655.7 kg/ha | -45.8% |
| 2015 | 611.1 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2016 | 555.1 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2017 | 770 kg/ha | +38.7% |
| 2018 | 1,097 kg/ha | +42.4% |
| 2019 | 570 kg/ha | -48.0% |
| 2020 | 750 kg/ha | +31.6% |
| 2021 | 490 kg/ha | -34.7% |
| 2022 | 650 kg/ha | +32.7% |
| 2023 | 950 kg/ha | +46.2% |
| 2024 | 690 kg/ha | -27.4% |
Somalia compared with similar countries
- Somalia's 690 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 1,273 kg/ha, 54% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
- Somalia's 690 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,273 kg/ha, 54% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Maize (corn) — Yield in Somalia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | +105.1% | 711.8 kg/ha | 1,460 kg/ha |
| 1995 | +100.1% | 414.9 kg/ha | 830.4 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 851.87 kg/ha | 814.8 kg/ha | 869.6 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 889.67 kg/ha | 724.3 kg/ha | 979.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,081 kg/ha | 717.2 kg/ha | 1,372 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 766.04 kg/ha | 414.9 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,282 kg/ha | 1,053 kg/ha | 1,530 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,053 kg/ha | 555.1 kg/ha | 1,790 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 706 kg/ha | 490 kg/ha | 950 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Somalia
More agriculture & rural data for Somalia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -13.31 % change on previous year (1990)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.5579 current US$ per US$ of GDP (1990)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 81.24 current US$ per person (1990)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.21 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0007 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4486 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 55.8% (1990)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 55.8% (1990)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (1982)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 7.1% (1982)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Somalia?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Somalia was 690 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,790 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 414.9 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Somalia rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Somalia ranks 159th out of 163 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Somalia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Somalia 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.