Countries by maize (corn) yield, 2024

The United Arab Emirates had the highest maize (corn) yield of 162 countries in 2024, at 22.47 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.04 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.69 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.8 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest22.47United Arab Emirates

Lowest0.04Cape Verde

Median3.69162 countries

World5.8History

Top 40 countries, 2024

tonnes per hectare. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2024 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2023
1	United Arab Emirates Estimated	22.47	+10.3%
2	Qatar Estimated	19.24	-8.3%
3	Kuwait Estimated	16.87	-0.4%
4	Tajikistan Estimated	15.84	+12.3%
5	Israel	15.69	-9.9%
6	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	13.34	-5.1%
7	New Caledonia Estimated	12.45	+4.9%
8	Spain	12.12	+2.5%
9	Uzbekistan	11.92	-6.4%
10	Mauritius	11.89	+2.2%
11	New Zealand	11.3	+10.9%
12	United States	11.26	+1.1%
13	Azerbaijan Estimated	10.81	+7.8%
14	Chile	10.81	-0.4%
15	Canada	10.59	+4.3%
16	Türkiye	10.26	+9.2%
17	Germany	10.05	+4.2%
18	Switzerland	9.98	+15.6%
19	Italy	9.97	-7.1%
20	Austria	9.9	-0.3%
21	Greece	9.67	-10.8%
22	Portugal	9.48	-6.9%
23	Bangladesh	9.25	0%
24	France	9.2	-5.7%
25	Slovenia	9.2	+4.6%
26	Netherlands	8.45	-17.7%
27	Belgium	8.33	-15.3%
28	Czechia	8.14	+3.3%
29	Lithuania	7.87	-2.9%
30	Bahamas Estimated	7.74	+1.8%
31	Egypt	7.59	-0.5%
32	Croatia	7.57	+2.3%
33	Kyrgyzstan	7.32	+3.1%
34	Poland	7.22	+1%
35	Slovakia	7.22	-9.6%
36	Saudi Arabia Estimated	7.13	-6.8%
37	Albania	7.12	-3.2%
38	Denmark	6.89	+26.5%
39	Luxembourg	6.88	+23.1%
40	Sweden	6.77	-15.1%
41	Iran Estimated	6.67	+1.3%
42	Ukraine	6.6	-15.5%
43	China	6.59	+0.9%
44	Argentina	6.58	+28.8%
45	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.25	-10.3%
46	Kazakhstan	6.2	-0.8%
47	Pakistan	6.13	+3.4%
48	Cambodia Estimated	6.09	+1.8%
49	Taiwan Estimated	6	-0.5%
50	Algeria	6	0%
51	Hungary	6	-25.9%
52	Australia	5.95	+19.7%
53	Indonesia	5.94	-0.4%
54	Russia Estimated	5.84	-0.1%
55	South Korea Estimated	5.71	+0.6%
56	Syria	5.68	-20.7%
57	Belarus	5.67	+2%
58	Brazil	5.43	-8.2%
59	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.41	-0.4%
60	Armenia	5.19	-33%
61	Serbia	5.17	-28%
62	Vietnam	5.11	+1.3%
63	Oman	5.05	+0.1%
64	Iraq	5	-17.5%
65	Laos	4.97	+4.2%
66	South Africa	4.87	-23.3%
67	Uruguay Estimated	4.7	+232.1%
68	Thailand	4.66	+0.2%
69	North Macedonia	4.6	+0.5%
70	Ecuador	4.36	-0.8%
71	Colombia	4.34	+7.6%
72	Venezuela Estimated	4.34	-1.3%
73	Malaysia	4.18	+71.4%
74	Maldives Estimated	4.17	+0.4%
75	Paraguay	4.15	-18.2%
76	Suriname Estimated	4.02	-11.9%
77	Panama Estimated	4.01	-9%
78	North Korea	3.93	0%
79	Myanmar Estimated	3.93	+1.5%
80	Belize	3.82	-0%
81	Mexico	3.7	-13.5%
82	Bhutan	3.67	+1.3%
83	Peru	3.66	+1.1%
84	Montenegro	3.64	-26.5%
85	India	3.54	+6.6%
86	Puerto Rico Estimated	3.5	+23%
87	Nepal	3.49	+10.1%
88	Ethiopia Estimated	3.44	+1%
89	Fiji	3.32	-44.3%
90	Philippines	3.31	+0.2%
91	Bulgaria	3.25	-29%
92	El Salvador Estimated	3.08	+2.4%
93	Sri Lanka	3.07	+5.6%
94	Georgia	3.07	+16.4%
95	Lebanon Estimated	3	-0.1%
96	Turkmenistan	2.96	+36.2%
97	Romania	2.83	-29%
98	Senegal	2.81	-8.4%
99	Barbados Estimated	2.79	-0.1%
100	Ghana Estimated	2.77	+0.7%
101	Japan Estimated	2.69	-0.1%
102	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.56	-2.3%
103	Bolivia	2.53	+1.3%
104	Mali	2.47	+10.2%
105	Guatemala	2.26	+25.5%
106	Libya Estimated	2.22	-2%
107	Zambia	2.21	-4%
108	Uganda	2.17	-0.4%
109	Timor-Leste Estimated	2.06	-0.6%
110	Djibouti Estimated	2.04	+0.3%
111	Nigeria	2.03	+4.7%
112	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2	0%
113	Malawi	2	+2%
114	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.96	+1.2%
115	Afghanistan	1.93	-32.6%
116	Dominican Republic	1.92	-0.2%
117	Cuba	1.91	+47.5%
118	Costa Rica	1.9	+1.7%
119	Honduras Estimated	1.9	+0.7%
120	Rwanda	1.83	+14.9%
121	Cameroon	1.83	0%
122	Madagascar Estimated	1.83	+0.8%
123	Tanzania Estimated	1.76	-7.9%
124	Comoros Estimated	1.72	-0.8%
125	Sierra Leone Estimated	1.7	+7.7%
126	Dominica Estimated	1.69	+0.7%
127	Burkina Faso	1.68	+2.8%
128	Kenya	1.67	-5.5%
129	Moldova	1.62	-42.2%
130	Yemen Estimated	1.57	-35.8%
131	Gabon Estimated	1.56	0%
132	Micronesia Estimated	1.45	+0.5%
133	Guinea	1.44	-4.6%
134	Guyana Estimated	1.36	-0.1%
135	Jamaica	1.34	+17.7%
136	Chad	1.27	+15.2%
137	Togo	1.26	+0.2%
138	Burundi Estimated	1.23	+1.5%
139	Niger	1.22	-14.1%
140	Benin	1.19	+20%
141	Angola	1.19	+2.9%
142	Eswatini	1.07	-12%
143	Eritrea	1	0%
143	Guinea-Bissau	1	-28.6%
143	Republic of the Congo	1	0%
146	Grenada Estimated	1	-0.2%
147	Sudan Estimated	0.97	-3.5%
148	South Sudan Estimated	0.96	-3%
149	Namibia	0.93	-21.2%
150	Gambia	0.93	+15.7%
151	Mozambique	0.81	+2.5%
152	Haiti Estimated	0.77	-0.1%
153	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	-0.1%
154	Central African Republic	0.74	-7.4%
155	Zimbabwe	0.73	-21.9%
156	Morocco	0.72	+457.8%
157	Somalia	0.69	-27.4%
158	Mauritania	0.64	-1.7%
159	Vanuatu Estimated	0.64	+0.6%
160	Lesotho	0.63	-25.6%
161	Botswana	0.6	-1.5%
162	Cape Verde Estimated	0.04	+75.2%

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Harvested production of maize (corn) for grain per hectare of area harvested, in tonnes per hectare. FAOSTAT publishes it in kilograms per hectare; Invokely divides by 1,000.

Area harvested, not area sown, so crop failures lower the area as well as the output. FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 8 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2024 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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}

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