Maize (corn) — Yield in Yemen
Yemen: Maize (corn) — Yield was 1,567 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Maize (corn) — Yield in Yemen, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Yemen recorded 1,567 kg/ha for maize (corn) — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 35.8% on the previous year and up 11.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize (corn) — yield in Yemen peaked at 2,468 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 807.9 kg/ha, in 2005.
That places Yemen 129th out of 163 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Maize (corn) — Yield in Yemen, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,440 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,442 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1963 | 2,453 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1964 | 2,444 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 2,454 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1966 | 2,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 2,364 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1968 | 2,364 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 2,442 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1970 | 2,167 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1971 | 2,091 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1972 | 1,293 kg/ha | -38.2% |
| 1973 | 1,579 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 1974 | 1,715 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1975 | 1,847 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1976 | 1,661 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1977 | 1,611 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1978 | 1,540 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1979 | 1,640 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1980 | 1,576 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1981 | 1,697 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1982 | 1,734 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1983 | 972.6 kg/ha | -43.9% |
| 1984 | 1,229 kg/ha | +26.3% |
| 1985 | 1,095 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1986 | 1,192 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1987 | 1,242 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 1,273 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1989 | 1,327 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1990 | 1,274 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1991 | 1,198 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1992 | 1,499 kg/ha | +25.1% |
| 1993 | 1,605 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1994 | 1,586 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1995 | 1,363 kg/ha | -14.1% |
| 1996 | 1,243 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1997 | 1,324 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1998 | 1,466 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1999 | 1,478 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2000 | 1,478 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 1,442 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2002 | 1,270 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 2003 | 1,095 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2004 | 842.5 kg/ha | -23.1% |
| 2005 | 807.9 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2006 | 1,522 kg/ha | +88.4% |
| 2007 | 1,667 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2008 | 1,514 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2009 | 1,500 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2010 | 1,681 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 2011 | 1,514 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 2012 | 1,580 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 1,514 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2014 | 1,403 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2015 | 1,140 kg/ha | -18.7% |
| 2016 | 1,096 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2017 | 1,110 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 1,112 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,320 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 2020 | 2,280 kg/ha | +72.7% |
| 2021 | 2,455 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2022 | 2,468 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 2,440 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2024 | 1,567 kg/ha | -35.8% |
Yemen compared with similar countries
- Yemen's 1,567 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 1,273 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (21 countries reporting)
- Yemen's 1,567 kg/ha is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 6,000 kg/ha, 26% of the median. (17 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Maize (corn) — Yield in Yemen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | +88.4% | 807.9 kg/ha | 1,522 kg/ha |
| 2020 | +72.7% | 1,320 kg/ha | 2,280 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,429 kg/ha | 2,364 kg/ha | 2,454 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,714 kg/ha | 1,293 kg/ha | 2,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,334 kg/ha | 972.6 kg/ha | 1,734 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,404 kg/ha | 1,198 kg/ha | 1,605 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,314 kg/ha | 807.9 kg/ha | 1,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,347 kg/ha | 1,096 kg/ha | 1,681 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,242 kg/ha | 1,567 kg/ha | 2,468 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Yemen
- 126 Burkina Faso 1,682 kg/ha compare
- 127 Kenya 1,666 kg/ha compare
- 128 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,570 kg/ha compare
- 130 Gabon 1,561 kg/ha compare
- 131 Ethiopia PDR 1,528 kg/ha compare
- 132 Guinea 1,442 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Yemen
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -14.18 % change on previous year (2018)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2875 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2018)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 182.21 current US$ per person (2018)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.001 units per US$ of GDP (2018)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6297 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 28.7% (2018)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 28.7% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2019)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2019)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize (corn) — yield in Yemen?
- Maize (corn) — yield in Yemen was 1,567 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Yemen?
- The highest recorded value was 2,468 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest maize (corn) — yield recorded in Yemen?
- The lowest recorded value was 807.9 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does Yemen rank for maize (corn) — yield?
- Yemen ranks 129th out of 163 countries with data for 2024.
- Is maize (corn) — yield rising or falling in Yemen?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Yemen 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.