Countries by maize (corn) yield

The United Arab Emirates had the highest maize (corn) yield of 161 countries in 2013, at 36.76 tonnes per hectare. Botswana had the lowest, at 0.08 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.19 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.43 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest36.76United Arab Emirates

Lowest0.08Botswana

Median3.19161 countries

World5.43History

Map of countries, 2013

Under 1.3
1.3 to 2.2
2.2 to 3.3
3.3 to 5.3
5.3 to 7.1
7.1 and over
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tonnes per hectare, 2013. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2013

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	2013 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2012
1	United Arab Emirates	36.76	+203.5%
2	Kuwait	31.15	+57.9%
3	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	23.96	-7.4%
4	Israel	22.56	-11.7%
5	Qatar	12.48	-0%
6	Tajikistan	12.48	-0.7%
7	Netherlands	11.94	-3.2%
8	Belgium	11.15	+8.8%
9	Spain	11.04	+1.2%
10	New Zealand	10.82	-0.4%
11	Luxembourg	10.8	+33.5%
12	Greece	10.67	+2%
13	Chile	10.63	-0.8%
14	Uzbekistan	10.62	+32.1%
15	Switzerland	10.08	-6.9%
16	United States	9.93	+28.5%
17	Canada	9.55	+4.2%
18	Türkiye	8.95	+21.1%
19	Germany	8.83	-15.8%
20	Italy	8.7	+8.3%
21	Portugal	8.31	+0.1%
22	France	8.16	-9.4%
23	Austria	8.12	-24.2%
24	Egypt	7.72	-0.6%
25	Bahamas Estimated	7.41	+1%
26	Lithuania	7.4	+21.1%
27	Oman	7.19	-8.9%
28	Czechia	6.97	-10.4%
29	Albania	6.95	+3.3%
30	Mauritius	6.8	-4.6%
31	Armenia	6.71	+7.9%
32	Argentina	6.6	+15.2%
33	Bangladesh	6.6	+0.2%
34	Poland	6.58	-10.5%
35	Croatia	6.5	+49.9%
36	Australia	6.44	-0.3%
37	Ukraine	6.41	+33.7%
38	Bulgaria	6.39	+73.8%
39	Iran	6.39	+3.2%
40	Taiwan	6.33	+0.1%
41	Kyrgyzstan	6.18	+1.4%
42	Saudi Arabia	6.1	+1.5%
43	China	6.02	+2.5%
44	Serbia	5.98	+65.3%
45	Denmark	5.91	+1.6%
46	Laos	5.73	+0.1%
47	Uruguay	5.63	+32.1%
48	Belarus	5.57	+10.4%
49	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.45	+14.5%
50	Hungary	5.44	+36%
51	Slovenia	5.41	-23.5%
52	Azerbaijan	5.39	+5.6%
53	Kazakhstan	5.28	+1.7%
54	Brazil	5.25	+5%
55	Montenegro	5.18	+61.8%
56	Slovakia	5.07	-8%
57	South Korea	5.06	+3.4%
58	Russia	5.01	+18.2%
59	Maldives Estimated	5	-3.8%
60	Indonesia	4.84	-1.1%
61	Romania	4.49	+105.5%
62	Vietnam	4.44	+3.1%
63	South Africa	4.25	-5.4%
64	Pakistan	4.23	+6.2%
65	North Macedonia	4.23	+6.9%
66	Thailand	4.22	-2.3%
67	Iraq	4.22	+26.2%
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.21	+53.5%
69	New Caledonia Estimated	4.19	-9.8%
70	Paraguay	4	+29.2%
71	Cambodia	3.91	-11.5%
72	Venezuela	3.83	+9%
73	North Korea	3.8	-1.1%
74	Syria	3.65	-14.7%
75	Myanmar	3.64	+1.5%
76	Belize	3.44	-6%
77	Lebanon Estimated	3.4	-2.1%
78	Algeria	3.36	+31.5%
79	Peru	3.27	-1.2%
80	Bhutan	3.21	+12.8%
81	Mexico	3.19	+0.2%
82	Moldova	3.1	+153.1%
83	Sri Lanka	3.09	-9.7%
84	El Salvador	2.95	-9.6%
85	Puerto Rico Estimated	2.89	+5%
86	Philippines	2.88	+0.8%
87	Barbados Estimated	2.83	-11.5%
88	Colombia	2.82	-2.8%
89	Ethiopia	2.74	+5.7%
90	Japan Estimated	2.73	+4.3%
91	India	2.65	+6.1%
92	Mali	2.59	+6.1%
93	Zambia	2.54	-4.4%
94	Uganda	2.49	-0.2%
95	Georgia	2.48	+1.4%
96	Suriname	2.47	-6.2%
97	Turkmenistan Estimated	2.42	+28.5%
98	Cuba	2.39	+1.9%
99	Ecuador	2.37	-13.3%
100	Panama	2.36	+17.1%
101	Timor-Leste	2.35	+69.3%
102	Nepal	2.35	-5.9%
103	Rwanda	2.28	+1.1%
104	Costa Rica	2.23	-3.8%
105	Afghanistan	2.2	-0.1%
106	Malawi	2.17	-1%
107	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.15	+1.3%
108	Bolivia	2.14	-24.8%
109	Sierra Leone	2.1	-4.6%
110	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2.1	-0.1%
111	Guatemala	2.08	+2.4%
112	Djibouti Estimated	2	0%
112	Libya	2	-8.5%
114	Cameroon	1.98	+15.4%
115	Fiji	1.97	-0.1%
116	Comoros Estimated	1.9	-0.9%
117	Namibia Estimated	1.85	-1.9%
118	Burkina Faso	1.74	-5.6%
119	Ghana	1.72	-7.9%
120	Kenya	1.69	-2.6%
121	Dominica Estimated	1.67	0%
122	Madagascar Estimated	1.66	-0.1%
123	Honduras Estimated	1.62	+2.5%
124	Sudan	1.6	-3.8%
125	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.59	-0.1%
126	Dominican Republic	1.58	+0.6%
127	Gabon Estimated	1.57	0%
128	Yemen	1.51	-4.2%
129	Micronesia Estimated	1.5	+5%
130	Nigeria	1.46	-3.3%
131	Senegal	1.44	-6.7%
132	Guyana Estimated	1.37	-0.1%
133	Eswatini	1.37	+2.4%
134	Burundi	1.32	+12.4%
135	Benin	1.31	+3.7%
136	Tanzania	1.3	+4.9%
137	Guinea	1.25	+2.5%
138	Niger	1.23	+18.1%
139	Chad	1.23	-10.3%
140	Somalia	1.21	-31.5%
141	Jamaica	1.19	-0.1%
142	Nicaragua	1.18	-12.5%
143	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	1.05	0%
144	Eritrea	1	-4.5%
144	Grenada Estimated	1	-2.8%
146	Gambia	1	-6.4%
147	Angola	0.95	+21.8%
148	Togo	0.92	-22.4%
149	Haiti	0.85	+4.7%
150	Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.82	+0.2%
151	Lesotho	0.82	+18.3%
152	Central African Republic	0.79	-1.4%
153	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.78	+0.1%
154	Zimbabwe	0.74	-5.9%
155	Mozambique	0.68	-54.5%
156	Morocco	0.66	-13.3%
157	Vanuatu Estimated	0.63	+10.8%
158	South Sudan	0.53	+15.1%
159	Mauritania	0.47	-31.5%
160	Cape Verde	0.18	-7.1%
161	Botswana	0.08	-38%

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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. 9 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2013 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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The United Arab Emirates, with 36.76 tonnes per hectare in 2013, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Botswana, with 0.08 tonnes per hectare in 2013.

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