Countries by maize (corn) yield

The United Arab Emirates had the highest maize (corn) yield of 161 countries in 2016, at 33.4 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.18 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.58 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.77 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest33.4United Arab Emirates

Lowest0.18Cape Verde

Median3.58161 countries

World5.77History

Top 40 countries, 2016

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	2016 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2015
1	United Arab Emirates	33.4	-5.4%
2	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	24.74	+2.2%
3	Israel	23	+11.1%
4	Qatar	12.5	0%
5	Tajikistan	12.36	+16.8%
6	Uzbekistan	12.36	+4.9%
7	United States	11.74	+11.1%
8	New Zealand	11.69	+2.2%
9	Chile	11.54	-6.1%
10	Greece	11.33	-2.9%
11	Spain	11.33	-1.2%
12	Austria	11.16	+28.6%
13	Italy	10.35	+6.4%
14	Switzerland	10.19	+13.3%
15	Netherlands	10.05	-7.2%
16	Canada	9.83	-3.7%
17	Czechia	9.79	+76.8%
18	Germany	9.65	+10.6%
19	Slovenia	9.51	+6%
20	Türkiye	9.42	+1%
21	Slovakia	9.25	+90.6%
22	Belgium	9.23	-9.8%
23	Hungary	8.63	+49.1%
24	Croatia	8.55	+32%
25	New Caledonia	8.41	+5.4%
26	France	8.21	-2.1%
27	Portugal	8.02	-5.1%
28	Bahamas Estimated	7.71	-7.6%
29	Denmark	7.68	+23.9%
30	Egypt	7.61	+3.4%
31	Australia	7.51	-9.5%
32	Argentina	7.44	+1.8%
33	Iran	7.38	+5%
34	Poland	7.32	+55.4%
35	Serbia	7.3	+35.3%
36	Bangladesh	7.3	+4.5%
37	Lithuania	6.94	+44%
38	Oman	6.81	-43.1%
39	Mauritius	6.8	+7.1%
40	Luxembourg	6.7	+1.8%
41	Ukraine	6.6	+15.6%
42	Kuwait	6.55	-22.6%
43	Albania	6.49	-6.8%
44	Saudi Arabia Estimated	6.4	0%
45	Armenia	6.39	-7.1%
46	Kyrgyzstan	6.38	+1.7%
47	Azerbaijan	6.25	+4.7%
48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.15	+50.7%
49	Laos	6	+0.5%
50	China	5.97	+1.3%
51	Belarus	5.96	+36.6%
52	Uruguay	5.87	+1.7%
53	Kazakhstan	5.64	+5.9%
54	Russia	5.5	+11.5%
55	Bulgaria	5.47	+1.1%
56	Taiwan	5.43	-8.9%
57	Paraguay	5.37	+2.3%
58	Indonesia	5.31	+2.4%
59	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.3	-4%
60	South Korea	4.85	-4.8%
61	Cambodia	4.81	+50.4%
62	North Macedonia	4.63	+9.8%
63	Vietnam	4.55	+0.3%
64	Pakistan	4.55	+2.8%
65	Algeria	4.51	+15%
66	Syria	4.49	+69.2%
67	Maldives Estimated	4.41	+14%
68	Thailand Estimated	4.38	+4.8%
69	Brazil	4.29	-22.5%
70	Montenegro	4.22	-1.7%
71	Romania	4.17	+20.1%
72	Lebanon	4.07	+14.1%
73	North Korea	4.03	-1.3%
74	Iraq	3.89	+22.1%
75	Myanmar	3.75	+0.8%
76	Puerto Rico Estimated	3.74	+15.1%
77	Turkmenistan	3.72	+8.5%
78	Mexico	3.72	+6.9%
79	South Africa	3.71	+6.4%
80	Sri Lanka	3.61	+1.5%
81	Bhutan	3.58	-1.7%
82	Ecuador	3.56	-20.2%
83	Peru	3.48	+2.5%
84	Venezuela	3.37	+7.9%
85	Colombia	3.07	-16.3%
86	El Salvador	3.04	+21.2%
87	Fiji	3	0%
88	Moldova	2.99	+35.5%
89	Belize	2.98	+4%
90	Ethiopia	2.95	+6.1%
91	Philippines	2.91	-1%
92	Barbados Estimated	2.76	+2.2%
93	Mali	2.73	+7.7%
94	Japan Estimated	2.69	+2.4%
95	India	2.69	+1.9%
96	Georgia	2.62	+53.2%
97	Nepal	2.5	+2.9%
98	Bolivia	2.5	+4.4%
99	Zambia	2.48	-18.1%
100	Suriname	2.47	+5.5%
101	Cuba	2.37	-2.3%
102	Timor-Leste Estimated	2.31	-3.4%
103	Panama	2.17	+39.3%
104	Guatemala	2.15	+1.8%
105	Uganda Estimated	2.15	-14.1%
106	Libya Estimated	2.13	-6.8%
107	Afghanistan	2.05	-4.4%
108	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.05	-0.6%
109	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2.01	-1%
110	Djibouti Estimated	2	-0.5%
111	Cameroon	1.98	+13.8%
112	Namibia	1.95	+5.4%
113	Ghana	1.95	+1.5%
114	Costa Rica	1.94	+3.4%
115	Honduras	1.86	+4.2%
116	Comoros Estimated	1.85	-1%
117	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.84	+16.7%
118	Senegal	1.82	+19.6%
119	Nigeria	1.78	+3.8%
120	Burkina Faso	1.76	-1.9%
121	Madagascar Estimated	1.73	+1%
122	Dominican Republic	1.65	+13.6%
123	Dominica Estimated	1.6	-0.4%
124	Tanzania Estimated	1.59	+1.7%
125	Rwanda	1.57	+2.8%
126	Gabon Estimated	1.56	-0.2%
127	Burundi	1.48	+11.9%
128	Micronesia Estimated	1.44	+0.3%
129	Kenya	1.43	-21.6%
130	Malawi	1.42	-14.5%
131	Sudan	1.38	+11.4%
132	Benin	1.38	+7.4%
133	Guyana Estimated	1.37	-0.2%
134	Chad	1.27	+11%
135	Guinea	1.23	-1.9%
136	Eswatini Estimated	1.22	-2.9%
137	Togo	1.22	-11.9%
138	Niger	1.22	-0.4%
139	Nicaragua	1.17	+8%
140	Yemen	1.1	-3.9%
141	Jamaica	1.09	-4.5%
142	Eritrea	1	0%
143	Grenada Estimated	1	-0.4%
144	Angola	0.98	-12.9%
145	Morocco	0.93	+22.9%
146	Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.9	+3.2%
147	South Sudan	0.88	-3.1%
148	Guinea-Bissau	0.86	0%
149	Central African Republic	0.8	0%
150	Haiti	0.79	-0.7%
151	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	-0.4%
152	Mozambique	0.73	-8.9%
153	Gambia Estimated	0.72	-23.3%
154	Vanuatu Estimated	0.6	+0.2%
155	Somalia	0.56	-9.2%
156	Lesotho	0.47	-28.8%
157	Mauritania	0.46	0%
158	Zimbabwe	0.44	-24.1%
159	Sierra Leone	0.33	-45.7%
160	Botswana Estimated	0.25	-1.9%
161	Cape Verde	0.18	-35.6%

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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 2016 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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