Countries by maize (corn) yield

The United Arab Emirates had the highest maize (corn) yield of 161 countries in 2015, at 35.29 tonnes per hectare. Botswana had the lowest, at 0.26 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.25 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.52 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest35.29United Arab Emirates

Lowest0.26Botswana

Median3.25161 countries

World5.52History

Map of countries, 2015

Under 1.3
1.3 to 2.1
2.1 to 3.4
3.4 to 5.3
5.3 to 7.8
7.8 and over
No data

tonnes per hectare, 2015. 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, 2015

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	2015 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2014
1	United Arab Emirates	35.29	+147.9%
2	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	24.22	-1.1%
3	Israel	20.7	-39.3%
4	Qatar	12.5	-0.3%
5	Chile	12.29	+21.7%
6	Oman	11.96	+76.5%
7	Uzbekistan	11.78	+1.9%
8	Greece	11.67	+5.1%
9	Spain	11.46	+0.4%
10	New Zealand	11.44	+4.1%
11	Netherlands	10.83	-21.2%
12	Tajikistan	10.58	-20.3%
13	United States	10.57	-1.5%
14	Belgium	10.23	-2.6%
15	Canada	10.21	+9.8%
16	Italy	9.73	-8.4%
17	Türkiye	9.33	+2.8%
18	Switzerland	8.99	-16.4%
19	Slovenia	8.97	-1.9%
20	Germany	8.72	-18.4%
21	Austria	8.68	-19.6%
22	Kuwait	8.47	-72.5%
23	Portugal	8.45	+1.4%
24	France	8.38	-16.6%
25	Bahamas Estimated	8.34	+11%
26	Australia	8.3	+11.3%
27	New Caledonia	7.97	+41%
28	Egypt	7.35	-5.2%
29	Argentina	7.31	+6.8%
30	Iran	7.03	-1%
31	Bangladesh	6.98	+1%
32	Albania	6.96	+0.7%
33	Armenia	6.88	-2.8%
34	Luxembourg	6.58	-15%
35	Croatia	6.47	-20.1%
36	Saudi Arabia Estimated	6.4	-0.2%
37	Mauritius	6.35	-29.9%
38	Kyrgyzstan	6.27	+3.7%
39	Denmark	6.2	-14.1%
40	Azerbaijan	5.97	+10.2%
41	Laos	5.97	+2.9%
42	Taiwan	5.96	-3%
43	China	5.89	+1.4%
44	Hungary	5.79	-26%
45	Uruguay	5.77	+34%
46	Ukraine	5.71	-7.2%
47	Czechia	5.54	-34.3%
48	Brazil	5.54	+6.9%
49	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.52	-0.4%
50	Bulgaria	5.41	-29.6%
51	Serbia	5.4	-28.2%
52	Kazakhstan	5.33	+0.9%
53	Paraguay	5.25	+31.2%
54	Indonesia	5.18	+4.5%
55	South Korea	5.1	-1.6%
56	Russia	4.93	+13.2%
57	Slovakia	4.85	-42.2%
58	Lithuania	4.82	-20.4%
59	Poland	4.71	-28.5%
60	Vietnam	4.54	+2.8%
61	Ecuador	4.47	+30.1%
62	Pakistan	4.42	+2.4%
63	Belarus	4.36	-18.5%
64	Montenegro	4.29	-15.6%
65	North Macedonia	4.21	-6.1%
66	Thailand	4.18	-1.6%
67	North Korea	4.09	-7.5%
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.08	-13.3%
69	Algeria	3.92	+50%
70	Maldives Estimated	3.87	-3.2%
71	Myanmar	3.72	+0.7%
72	Colombia	3.67	+3%
73	Bhutan	3.64	+12.4%
74	Lebanon Estimated	3.57	+19%
75	Sri Lanka Estimated	3.55	-1%
76	South Africa	3.49	-34.2%
77	Mexico	3.48	+5.5%
78	Romania	3.47	-27.5%
79	Turkmenistan Estimated	3.43	+22.7%
80	Peru	3.4	+7.6%
81	Puerto Rico	3.25	+1.9%
82	Cambodia	3.2	-8.2%
83	Iraq	3.18	-6.9%
84	Venezuela	3.13	-18.4%
85	Zambia	3.03	+9%
86	Fiji	3	+52.7%
87	Philippines	2.93	-1.4%
88	Belize	2.86	-21.7%
89	Ethiopia	2.78	-5.9%
90	Barbados Estimated	2.7	-0.2%
91	Syria	2.65	-2.6%
92	India	2.64	+1.9%
93	Japan Estimated	2.62	-2.7%
94	Mali	2.53	+16.5%
95	El Salvador	2.51	-3.7%
96	Uganda	2.5	-3.8%
97	Nepal	2.43	-1.1%
98	Cuba	2.43	+5.3%
99	Timor-Leste Estimated	2.4	-13.5%
100	Bolivia	2.39	+10.2%
101	Suriname	2.34	-3.1%
102	Libya Estimated	2.29	+9.1%
103	Moldova	2.2	-34.2%
104	Afghanistan	2.15	-13.8%
105	Guatemala	2.11	+1.2%
106	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.06	-4.1%
107	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2.03	-1.5%
108	Djibouti Estimated	2.01	+1.1%
109	Ghana	1.92	+11.1%
110	Costa Rica	1.88	+12.1%
111	Comoros Estimated	1.87	-1%
112	Namibia Estimated	1.85	+15.7%
113	Kenya	1.82	+9.8%
114	Burkina Faso	1.79	-6.2%
115	Honduras Estimated	1.78	-4%
116	Cameroon	1.74	-1.4%
117	Nigeria	1.72	+1.1%
118	Madagascar Estimated	1.71	+1.8%
119	Georgia	1.71	-26.6%
120	Malawi	1.66	-29%
121	Dominica Estimated	1.6	-1.2%
122	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.58	-0.2%
123	Gabon Estimated	1.57	-0.1%
124	Tanzania	1.56	-4.1%
125	Panama	1.56	-39.2%
126	Rwanda	1.53	-0%
127	Senegal	1.53	+24.9%
128	Dominican Republic	1.45	-2.4%
129	Micronesia Estimated	1.44	-3.4%
130	Togo	1.39	+16.2%
131	Guyana Estimated	1.37	0%
132	Burundi	1.33	+0.9%
133	Benin	1.28	-8.4%
134	Eswatini Estimated	1.26	-7.6%
135	Guinea	1.25	+1.5%
136	Sudan	1.24	+17%
137	Niger	1.22	-30.5%
138	Chad	1.15	-1.5%
139	Yemen	1.14	-18.7%
140	Jamaica	1.14	+0.4%
141	Angola	1.12	+8.2%
142	Nicaragua	1.08	-6.3%
143	Grenada Estimated	1	+0.9%
144	Eritrea	1	+5.6%
145	Gambia Estimated	0.94	+13.9%
146	South Sudan	0.91	-5.9%
147	Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.87	+1.8%
148	Guinea-Bissau	0.86	-14.3%
149	Mozambique	0.8	+0.9%
150	Central African Republic	0.8	0%
151	Haiti Estimated	0.8	+9.1%
152	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.78	-0%
153	Morocco	0.75	+6.5%
154	Lesotho	0.66	-3.2%
155	Sierra Leone	0.61	+1.8%
156	Somalia	0.61	-6.8%
157	Vanuatu Estimated	0.6	-2.4%
158	Zimbabwe	0.58	-37.6%
159	Mauritania	0.46	-33.3%
160	Cape Verde	0.28	+706.1%
161	Botswana	0.26	-6.9%

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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 2015 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 35.29 tonnes per hectare in 2015, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Botswana, with 0.26 tonnes per hectare in 2015.

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