Maize (corn) — Yield in Uruguay
Uruguay: Maize (corn) — Yield was 4,699 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Maize (corn) — Yield in Uruguay, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Uruguay recorded 4,699 kg/ha for maize (corn) — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 232.1% on the previous year and up 9.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Uruguay peaked at 7,626 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 327.5 kg/ha, in 1965.
That places Uruguay 71st out of 178 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 620.09 kg/ha | 327.5 kg/ha | 870.7 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 965.18 kg/ha | 757.7 kg/ha | 1,221 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,188 kg/ha | 953.8 kg/ha | 1,592 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,351 kg/ha | 1,561 kg/ha | 4,089 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,041 kg/ha | 1,530 kg/ha | 5,754 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,399 kg/ha | 3,538 kg/ha | 7,626 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,767 kg/ha | 1,415 kg/ha | 6,539 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Uruguay
- Agriculture share gdp 6.38 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.38 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 4.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 147,108 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.45 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 3,350 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Uruguay?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Uruguay was 4,699 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Uruguay?
- The highest recorded value was 7,626 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Uruguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 327.5 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Uruguay rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Uruguay ranks 71st out of 178 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Uruguay?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Uruguay 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.