Maize (corn) — Yield in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste: Maize (corn) — Yield was 2,064 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Maize (corn) — Yield in Timor-Leste, 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 Timor-Leste is 2,064 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 25.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Timor-Leste peaked at 2,772 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 972.1 kg/ha, in 2021.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Maize (corn) — Yield in Timor-Leste, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,094 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,000 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1963 | 1,021 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1964 | 1,024 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1965 | 1,020 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1966 | 1,043 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1967 | 1,020 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1968 | 1,052 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1969 | 1,122 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1970 | 1,052 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1971 | 1,058 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1972 | 1,027 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1973 | 1,042 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1974 | 1,071 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1975 | 1,111 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1976 | 1,087 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1977 | 1,143 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1978 | 1,056 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1979 | 1,046 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1980 | 1,042 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1981 | 1,046 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1982 | 1,044 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1983 | 1,021 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1984 | 1,087 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1985 | 1,067 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1986 | 1,072 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1987 | 1,140 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1988 | 1,288 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 1989 | 1,269 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1990 | 1,328 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1991 | 1,392 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1992 | 1,410 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 1,800 kg/ha | +27.7% |
| 1994 | 1,882 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1995 | 1,836 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1996 | 1,835 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1997 | 1,577 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 1998 | 1,848 kg/ha | +17.2% |
| 1999 | 1,300 kg/ha | -29.6% |
| 2000 | 1,608 kg/ha | +23.7% |
| 2001 | 1,216 kg/ha | -24.4% |
| 2002 | 1,755 kg/ha | +44.4% |
| 2003 | 1,392 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 2004 | 1,581 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 2005 | 1,590 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 1,676 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2007 | 1,128 kg/ha | -32.7% |
| 2008 | 1,261 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2009 | 1,888 kg/ha | +49.7% |
| 2010 | 2,119 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2011 | 2,294 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2012 | 1,390 kg/ha | -39.4% |
| 2013 | 2,354 kg/ha | +69.3% |
| 2014 | 2,772 kg/ha | +17.8% |
| 2015 | 2,397 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2016 | 2,315 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2017 | 2,169 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2018 | 2,144 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2019 | 2,512 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2020 | 2,669 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2021 | 972.1 kg/ha | -63.6% |
| 2022 | 1,696 kg/ha | +74.5% |
| 2023 | 2,076 kg/ha | +22.4% |
| 2024 | 2,064 kg/ha | -0.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Maize (corn) — Yield in Timor-Leste 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | +74.5% | 972.1 kg/ha | 1,696 kg/ha |
| 2013 | +69.3% | 1,390 kg/ha | 2,354 kg/ha |
| 2021 | -63.6% | 2,669 kg/ha | 972.1 kg/ha |
| 2009 | +49.7% | 1,261 kg/ha | 1,888 kg/ha |
| 2002 | +44.4% | 1,216 kg/ha | 1,755 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,044 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,122 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,069 kg/ha | 1,027 kg/ha | 1,143 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,108 kg/ha | 1,021 kg/ha | 1,288 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,621 kg/ha | 1,300 kg/ha | 1,882 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,510 kg/ha | 1,128 kg/ha | 1,888 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,247 kg/ha | 1,390 kg/ha | 2,772 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,895 kg/ha | 972.1 kg/ha | 2,669 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Timor-Leste
- 8 Spain 12,115 kg/ha compare
- 8 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 4,339 kg/ha compare
- 9 Belgium-Luxembourg 12,108 kg/ha compare
- 9 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 3,932 kg/ha compare
- 10 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,528 kg/ha compare
- 10 Uzbekistan 11,915 kg/ha compare
- 11 Mauritius 11,890 kg/ha compare
- 12 New Zealand 11,301 kg/ha compare
- 13 Azerbaijan 10,814 kg/ha compare
- 13 United Republic of Tanzania 1,756 kg/ha compare
- 14 Chile 10,806 kg/ha compare
- 14 Republic of Moldova 1,622 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Timor-Leste?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Timor-Leste was 2,064 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The highest recorded value was 2,772 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The lowest recorded value was 972.1 kg/ha in 2021.
- How does Timor-Leste rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Timor-Leste ranks 11th out of 19 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Timor-Leste?
- Over the last ten years it is down 25.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Timor-Leste 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.