Countries by maize (corn) yield

Israel had the highest maize (corn) yield of 161 countries in 2014, at 34.1 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.03 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.24 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.58 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest34.1Israel

Lowest0.03Cape Verde

Median3.24161 countries

World5.58History

Map of countries, 2014

Under 1.3
1.3 to 2.2
2.2 to 3.3
3.3 to 5.4
5.4 to 8
8 and over
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tonnes per hectare, 2014. 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, 2014

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	2014 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2013
1	Israel	34.1	+51.2%
2	Kuwait	30.75	-1.3%
3	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	24.49	+2.2%
4	United Arab Emirates	14.24	-61.3%
5	Netherlands	13.74	+15%
6	Tajikistan	13.28	+6.4%
7	Qatar	12.53	+0.4%
8	Uzbekistan	11.56	+8.9%
9	Spain	11.41	+3.3%
10	Greece	11.1	+4.1%
11	New Zealand	10.99	+1.6%
12	Austria	10.79	+32.9%
13	Switzerland	10.76	+6.7%
14	United States	10.73	+8.1%
15	Germany	10.68	+21%
16	Italy	10.62	+22.1%
17	Belgium	10.5	-5.8%
18	Chile	10.1	-5%
19	France	10.05	+23.2%
20	Canada	9.29	-2.6%
21	Slovenia	9.15	+68.9%
22	Türkiye	9.07	+1.4%
23	Mauritius	9.06	+33.3%
24	Czechia	8.43	+20.9%
25	Slovakia	8.39	+65.5%
26	Portugal	8.33	+0.2%
27	Croatia	8.1	+24.7%
28	Hungary	7.82	+43.8%
29	Egypt	7.76	+0.4%
30	Luxembourg	7.74	-28.3%
31	Bulgaria	7.68	+20.1%
32	Serbia	7.52	+25.7%
33	Bahamas Estimated	7.52	+1.4%
34	Australia	7.46	+15.7%
35	Denmark	7.22	+22%
36	Iran	7.1	+11.2%
37	Armenia	7.08	+5.5%
38	Bangladesh	6.92	+4.8%
39	Albania	6.91	-0.6%
40	Argentina	6.84	+3.6%
41	Oman	6.78	-5.7%
42	Poland	6.59	+0.2%
43	Saudi Arabia Estimated	6.41	+5.1%
44	Ukraine	6.16	-3.9%
45	Taiwan	6.14	-2.9%
46	Lithuania	6.05	-18.2%
47	Kyrgyzstan	6.05	-2.2%
48	China	5.81	-3.4%
49	Laos	5.8	+1.3%
50	New Caledonia Estimated	5.65	+35%
51	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.55	+1.7%
52	Azerbaijan	5.42	+0.5%
53	Belarus	5.36	-3.8%
54	South Africa	5.3	+24.8%
55	Kazakhstan	5.28	+0.1%
56	South Korea	5.18	+2.3%
57	Brazil	5.18	-1.5%
58	Montenegro	5.08	-1.8%
59	Indonesia	4.95	+2.3%
60	Romania	4.79	+6.5%
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.7	+11.7%
62	North Macedonia	4.49	+6.2%
63	North Korea	4.42	+16.3%
64	Vietnam	4.41	-0.5%
65	Russia	4.36	-13%
66	Pakistan	4.32	+2.1%
67	Uruguay	4.31	-23.5%
68	Thailand	4.25	+0.5%
69	Maldives Estimated	4	-20%
69	Paraguay	4	0%
71	Venezuela	3.83	-0%
72	Myanmar	3.7	+1.6%
73	Belize	3.65	+6.2%
74	Sri Lanka	3.59	+16.3%
75	Colombia	3.57	+26.2%
76	Cambodia	3.49	-10.8%
77	Ecuador	3.43	+44.9%
78	Iraq	3.42	-19%
79	Moldova	3.35	+7.9%
80	Mexico	3.3	+3.2%
81	Bhutan	3.24	+1%
82	Puerto Rico	3.19	+10.5%
83	Peru	3.16	-3.3%
84	Lebanon	3	-11.7%
85	Philippines	2.98	+3.4%
86	Ethiopia	2.95	+7.7%
87	Turkmenistan Estimated	2.8	+15.6%
88	Zambia	2.78	+9.5%
89	Timor-Leste	2.77	+17.8%
90	Syria	2.72	-25.3%
91	Barbados Estimated	2.7	-4.7%
92	Japan Estimated	2.7	-1.1%
93	Algeria	2.62	-22.2%
94	El Salvador	2.61	-11.5%
95	Uganda	2.6	+4.2%
96	India	2.59	-2.2%
97	Panama	2.56	+8.3%
98	Afghanistan	2.49	+13.2%
99	Nepal	2.46	+4.5%
100	Suriname	2.42	-2.3%
101	Malawi	2.33	+7.5%
102	Georgia	2.33	-6%
103	Cuba	2.31	-3.6%
104	Bolivia	2.17	+1.3%
105	Mali	2.17	-16.2%
106	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.15	+0.1%
107	Libya Estimated	2.1	+4.9%
108	Guatemala	2.09	+0.3%
109	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2.07	-1.5%
110	Djibouti Estimated	1.99	-0.7%
111	Fiji	1.96	-0.1%
112	Burkina Faso	1.91	+10.1%
113	Comoros Estimated	1.88	-0.9%
114	Honduras	1.86	+14.8%
115	Cameroon	1.76	-10.8%
116	Niger	1.76	+42.8%
117	Ghana	1.73	+0.3%
118	Nigeria	1.7	+16.3%
119	Madagascar Estimated	1.68	+1.5%
120	Costa Rica	1.68	-25%
121	Kenya	1.66	-1.9%
122	Tanzania	1.63	+25%
123	Dominica Estimated	1.62	-2.6%
124	Namibia	1.6	-13.5%
125	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.58	-0.6%
126	Gabon Estimated	1.57	-0.5%
127	Rwanda	1.53	-33%
128	Micronesia Estimated	1.49	-0.8%
129	Dominican Republic	1.49	-5.8%
130	Yemen	1.4	-7.3%
131	Benin	1.4	+6.9%
132	Guyana Estimated	1.37	-0.4%
133	Eswatini	1.37	-0.4%
134	Burundi	1.31	-0.6%
135	Guinea	1.23	-1.4%
136	Senegal	1.22	-15.4%
137	Togo	1.2	+29.4%
138	Chad	1.16	-5.2%
139	Nicaragua	1.15	-2.4%
140	Jamaica	1.13	-4.8%
141	Sudan	1.06	-33.6%
142	Angola	1.04	+9.7%
143	Guinea-Bissau	1	-4.5%
144	Grenada Estimated	0.99	-0.7%
145	South Sudan	0.96	+81.5%
146	Eritrea	0.95	-5.3%
147	Zimbabwe	0.93	+24.9%
148	Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.85	+3.7%
149	Gambia	0.83	-17.2%
150	Central African Republic	0.8	+0.9%
151	Mozambique	0.8	+16.9%
152	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.78	-0.5%
153	Haiti	0.73	-14.5%
154	Morocco	0.71	+6.8%
155	Mauritania	0.68	+44.1%
156	Lesotho	0.68	-17.5%
157	Somalia	0.66	-45.8%
158	Vanuatu Estimated	0.62	-2.8%
159	Sierra Leone	0.6	-71.3%
160	Botswana	0.27	+222.7%
161	Cape Verde	0.03	-81.2%

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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. 9 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2014 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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Cape Verde, with 0.03 tonnes per hectare in 2014.

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