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Mexico is the top country by maize for food in the world. As of 2021, maize for food in Mexico was 15,644 thousand tonnes that accounts for 11.25% of the world's maize for food. The top 5 countries (others are China, India, Nigeria, and Brazil) account for 35.17% of it. The world's total maize for food was estimated at 139,084 thousand tonnes in 2021.

Default composition: 56 Maize, 58 Flour of Maize, 64 Starch of Maize, 846 Gluten Feed and Meal; nutrient data only: 57 Germ of Maize, 59 Bran of Maize, 63 Maize gluten

Maize for food (thousand tonnes)

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Afghanistan	54	56	56	54	89	55	64	38	57	134	104	197
Albania	6	7	6	6	6	7	7	8	7	7	6	7
Algeria	436	509	499	529	660	699	666	645	653	693	796	681
Angola	858	892	863	975	1,113	1,226	1,250	1,323	1,393	1,458	1,469	1,576
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
Argentina	469	455	497	555	524	507	506	516	526	538	524	544
Armenia	16	14	8	7	14	14	17	6	16	12	15	25
Australia	100	104	103	104	99	102	100	103	100	93	96	94
Austria	95	100	98	99	93	94	93	95	99	99	109	113
Azerbaijan	86	80	95	121	142	156	134	135	125	124	122	141
Bahamas	1	1	1	1	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	3
Bangladesh	89	102	93	96	98	101	104	107	111	122	124	127
Barbados	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4
Belarus	6	5	6	6	5	4	5	6	7	8	9	8
Belgium	23	23	25	25	16	13	9	14	13	14	14	14
Belize	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	10	10
Benin	329	318	341	365	400	399	403	388	400	435	466	468
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	288	295	301	288	239	302	408	257	354	369	323	379
Bosnia and Herzegovina	113	111	106	107	105	101	99	88	88	70	68	83
Botswana	99	102	102	128	168	163	171	195	181	190	179	167
Brazil	5,303	5,342	5,429	5,610	5,757	5,736	5,690	5,964	6,068	5,863	5,929	6,399
Bulgaria	196	207	213	204	272	194	299	265	256	154	124	149
Burkina Faso	882	1,031	1,053	1,145	1,229	1,353	1,353	1,503	1,401	1,131	1,181	1,508
Burundi	161	166	182	169	134	163	248	256	318	276	257	268
Cambodia	8	9	15	19	20	20	16	9	9	11	4	3
Cameroon	921	938	1,003	990	1,037	1,080	1,137	1,180	1,213	1,236	1,242	1,291
Canada	637	661	674	691	585	695	677	707	732	719	758	897
Cabo Verde	26	27	27	28	26	27	33	30	39	33	34	34
Central African Republic	130	122	117	114	89	83	90	83	84	96	83	93
Chad	173	233	278	281	293	291	332	332	332	332	290	295
Chile	273	298	325	361	382	389	390	398	423	268	197	197
China	9,753	9,887	10,010	10,126	10,242	10,242	9,009	9,000	9,124	9,132	11,702	12,330
China, Hong Kong SAR	48	46	36	38	34	33	34	33	37	34	35	35
China, Macao SAR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
China, Taiwan Province of	199	189	197	188	190	191	207	200	193	208	202	197
Colombia	1,325	1,389	1,387	1,378	1,609	1,663	1,607	1,652	1,776	2,086	2,185	2,169
Comoros	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	13	14
Congo	15	17	16	13	18	15	18	17	16	20	27	18
Costa Rica	49	49	50	51	60	59	65	70	73	74	80	94
Cote d'Ivoire	434	431	453	455	443	444	448	451	448	457	594	718
Croatia	32	35	38	42	40	36	37	34	39	38	36	36
Cuba	304	288	287	300	329	340	338	380	338	309	323	343
Cyprus	18	20	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	11
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	1,116	1,196	1,251	1,249	1,228	1,361	1,380	1,405	1,435	1,491	1,757	1,882
Denmark	20	21	33	38	21	19	20	19	28	32	34	21
Djibouti	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	1
Dominica	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	49	52	50	46	51	43	48	52	50	28	14	20
Ecuador	570	581	611	601	620	704	715	731	754	794	816	854
Egypt	5,303	5,447	5,554	5,660	5,603	5,592	5,767	5,876	5,896	5,977	6,101	6,235
El Salvador	477	457	458	444	459	463	467	471	478	533	519	465
Estonia	9	11	10	7	13	9	10	12	16	13	13	12
Ethiopia	4,466	4,985	5,108	5,197	4,832	5,065	5,574	6,455	6,227	6,001	6,234	6,201
Fiji	2	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
France	718	743	772	797	875	821	842	724	796	748	753	809
Gabon	27	29	29	30	31	31	33	32	35	35	35	35
Gambia	36	37	36	37	29	34	29	32	19	19	17	20
Georgia	91	81	79	68	79	75	78	76	71	71	76	79
Germany	736	813	1,045	1,003	1,035	984	849	901	894	572	676	393
Ghana	706	691	770	751	639	628	650	664	762	775	961	1,042
Greece	20	20	21	21	18	18	17	19	18	18	16	17
Grenada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guatemala	1,226	1,266	1,295	1,344	1,431	1,393	1,493	1,528	1,563	1,581	1,535	1,527
Guinea	99	102	110	114	115	122	129	132	135	149	138	132
Guinea-Bissau	8	7	7	7	6	5	5	6	6	8	12	14
Guyana	2	2	2	2	7	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Haiti	220	233	235	242	206	239	235	290	262	272	180	240
Honduras	627	644	651	676	701	718	730	745	755	769	819	838
Hungary	3	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iceland							0	0	0	0	0	0
India	9,196	8,319	8,560	9,199	8,508	10,535	10,185	10,189	10,760	10,429	7,105	7,331
Indonesia	5,816	6,322	6,469	6,322	7,462	6,880	8,379	6,881	7,703	8,389	263	237
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	228	170	197	179	231	190	219	225	279	257	298	295
Iraq	5	6	8	15	7	5	10	19	28	23	21	68
Ireland	41	43	44	43	51	52	54	53	53	64	52	44
Israel	161	153	117	115	127	140	100	119	129	132	146	126
Italy	227	227	227	227	235	241	239	240	288	203	192	193
Jamaica	20	18	20	20	24	15	26	33	33	33	32	36
Japan	1,651	1,720	1,846	1,820	1,735	1,643	1,751	1,663	1,685	1,792	1,600	1,597
Jordan	15	20	18	20	21	17	18	19	16	15	16	12
Kazakhstan	29	29	33	34	19	11	21	31	20	14	28	23
Kenya	3,122	3,754	3,539	3,703	3,583	4,035	3,983	3,816	3,985	3,837	3,533	3,240
Kiribati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kuwait	14	20	20	24	20	19	16	20	17	14	14	15
Kyrgyzstan	120	122	148	153	157	157	171	174	176	191	187	183
Lao People's Democratic Republic	81	83	76	85	87	88	91	88	89	94	77	80
Latvia	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
Lebanon	18	18	18	16	19	17	16	14	15	15	14	14
Lesotho	319	326	325	305	266	260	264	235	266	231	207	268
Liberia	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1
Libya	10	5	11	12	17	12	12	12	17	8	16	19
Lithuania	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	9	9
Luxembourg	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	0
Madagascar	388	399	425	373	352	312	297	270	202	202	204	220
Malawi	2,220	2,305	2,469	2,334	2,222	2,334	2,450	2,348	2,451	2,736	2,698	2,817
Malaysia	205	362	415	550	336	214	295	377	443	426	458	464
Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Mali	631	621	642	682	711	752	785	827	852	937	1,101	1,202
Malta	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	1	2	8	9	9
Mauritania	19	13	29	9	10	14	13	14	15	30	25	29
Mauritius	3	3	3	7	3	4	3	4	4	4	5	4
Mexico	13,170	13,139	13,143	13,199	14,344	14,461	14,564	14,716	14,830	15,447	15,620	15,644
Mongolia	2	0	0	0	0	2	6	4	10	5	7	7
Montenegro	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2
Morocco	1,325	1,074	1,285	1,444	1,326	1,334	1,374	1,506	1,330	1,670	1,735	1,521
Mozambique	1,829	1,877	1,944	1,383	1,228	1,283	1,099	1,140	1,204	1,421	1,696	1,981
Myanmar	187	187	193	192	190	192	200	195	202	163	150	142
Namibia	99	103	104	103	107	114	123	121	123	133	122	114
Nepal	1,042	1,048	1,044	1,065	1,079	1,080	1,093	1,107	1,120	1,134	1,123	1,180
New Zealand	16	18	19	18	21	22	22	22	24	32	29	27
Nicaragua	410	393	394	402	397	397	433	424	415	421	398	426
Niger	55	44	88	80	96	75	54	44	66	79	66	50
Nigeria	4,921	5,378	5,275	5,745	5,845	5,926	6,106	6,269	6,433	6,532	7,119	7,211
Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oman	33	35	40	49	54	54	57	59	62	87	107	84
Pakistan	2,261	2,671	2,563	3,013	3,319	3,856	4,088	4,206	4,496	5,067	3,593	2,680
Panama	88	90	95	99	114	122	114	133	126	127	150	180
Paraguay	413	419	420	425	458	463	473	469	540	550	580	607
Peru	401	396	362	405	429	478	511	509	530	523	553	544
Philippines	2,211	2,980	3,001	2,978	3,725	3,570	3,987	2,714	3,409	3,536	4,186	4,292
Portugal	148	171	186	193	184	187	171	183	188	188	181	195
Republic of Korea	628	699	686	611	724	731	779	783	775	766	884	828
Republic of Moldova	40	37	32	34	30	35	41	45	37	36	38	37
Romania	576	614	524	647	548	546	653	654	657	648	607	625
Russian Federation	86	92	88	58	79	92	81	79	71	98	150	107
Rwanda	266	281	306	328	356	344	360	368	368	360	373	347
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Samoa		0	0	0	1	1		0	0	0	0	1
Sao Tome and Principe	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1
Saudi Arabia	672	618	598	599	804	786	883	966	973	988	935	868
Senegal	217	159	280	221	301	309	303	355	390	384	392	426
Serbia	127	109	109	108	110	131	141	140	132	127	109	110
Seychelles	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Sierra Leone	37	38	29	28	15	16	9	16	17	27	20	16
Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenia	67	68	69	68	77	68	67	64	64	57	73	67
Solomon Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Africa	4,892	4,931	4,947	5,034	5,365	5,467	5,363	5,480	5,525	4,883	4,757	4,538
South Sudan										240	251	243
Spain	80	87	93	93	94	96	89	93	98	103	99	100
Sri Lanka	102	86	128	135	151	175	170	223	235	214	203	242
Sudan			14	7	50	27	31	14	25	47	50	48
Suriname	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Sweden	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	23	27	18	16
Switzerland	15	11	5	6	8	6	7	7	7	8	9	7
Syrian Arab Republic	322	266	154	135	195	110	98	72	71	124	112	113
Tajikistan	50	51	58	58	29	22	10	10	8	6	6	8
Thailand	607	606	622	593	602	650	601	629	668	659	731	772
Timor-Leste	76	75	75	75	74	75	75	73	73	73	72	72
Togo	482	518	529	541	595	573	600	618	652	701	664	687
Trinidad and Tobago	16	18	16	17	20	26	27	25	30	33	32	32
Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkmenistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
Uganda	1,594	1,668	1,956	2,096	1,972	1,850	1,768	1,797	1,921	1,967	2,366	2,168
Ukraine	566	530	516	539	530	523	802	832	846	957	949	995
United Arab Emirates	6	6	7	7	7	10	9	13	9	11	22	26
United Republic of Tanzania	2,620	2,637	2,873	3,027	3,061	3,117	3,205	3,493	3,293	3,512	4,072	4,398
United States of America	3,893	3,907	3,876	3,858	3,871	3,882	3,901	3,918	3,920	4,075	4,069	4,198
Uruguay	94	88	100	92	104	102	101	102	105	126	131	118
Uzbekistan	125	114	141	156	178	207	226	200	190	223	231	276
Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	1,667	1,679	1,700	1,680	1,603	1,461	1,554	1,402	1,467	1,505	1,437	1,187
Viet Nam	715	645	719	784	1,137	1,471	1,598	1,491	1,658	1,798	1,834	1,668
Yemen	268	306	304	325	418	372	416	401	437	425	440	401
Zambia	1,526	1,579	1,634	1,947	2,151	2,091	2,198	2,183	2,207	1,968	1,843	1,922
Zimbabwe	1,162	1,068	1,151	1,160	1,177	1,117	1,118	1,213	1,300	1,330	1,382	1,211
Micronesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Papua New Guinea	12	14	11	14	15	16	16	16	15	13	13	14
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	184	184	184	184	225	199	240	214	243	470	341	352
Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,573	1,606	1,717	1,758	1,787	1,782	1,815	1,884	1,762	1,805	2,019	1,826

Maize for food (thousand tonnes)

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