Countries by maize (corn) yield

The United Arab Emirates had the highest maize (corn) yield of 161 countries in 2017, at 30.8 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.56 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.75 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest30.8United Arab Emirates

Lowest0Cape Verde

Median3.56161 countries

World5.75History

Map of countries, 2017

Under 1.3
1.3 to 2.1
2.1 to 3.7
3.7 to 5.6
5.6 to 7.6
7.6 and over
No data

tonnes per hectare, 2017. 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, 2017

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	2017 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2016
1	United Arab Emirates	30.8	-7.8%
2	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	28.23	+14.1%
3	Israel	25.76	+12%
4	Netherlands	13.46	+34%
5	Tajikistan	13.08	+5.8%
6	Qatar	12.65	+1.2%
7	Belgium	12.42	+34.6%
8	Greece	11.6	+2.3%
9	Spain	11.32	-0.1%
10	Chile	11.22	-2.8%
11	United States	11.08	-5.6%
12	Switzerland	10.69	+4.9%
13	Germany	10.53	+9.1%
14	Uzbekistan	10.41	-15.8%
15	France	10.12	+23.4%
16	New Zealand	10.06	-14%
17	Canada	10.02	+2%
18	Austria	9.91	-11.2%
19	Italy	9.37	-9.5%
20	Türkiye	9.25	-1.8%
21	New Caledonia	9.01	+7.2%
22	Portugal	8.61	+7.4%
23	Luxembourg	8.6	+28.4%
24	Bahamas Estimated	7.82	+1.4%
25	Egypt	7.79	+2.4%
26	Bangladesh	7.76	+6.3%
27	Denmark	7.63	-0.7%
28	Argentina	7.58	+1.8%
29	Mauritius	7.49	+10.1%
30	Kuwait	7.21	+10.1%
31	Poland	7.15	-2.2%
32	Uruguay	7.14	+21.6%
33	Slovenia	7.11	-25.3%
34	Oman	6.93	+1.8%
35	Czechia	6.84	-30.1%
36	Hungary	6.82	-21%
37	Iran	6.69	-9.4%
38	Azerbaijan	6.61	+5.7%
39	Albania	6.56	+1.2%
40	Kyrgyzstan	6.45	+1.1%
41	Australia	6.44	-14.3%
42	Bulgaria	6.44	+17.7%
43	Saudi Arabia Estimated	6.4	0%
44	Croatia	6.31	-26.2%
45	China	6.11	+2.4%
46	Taiwan	6.1	+12.3%
47	Romania	5.96	+43%
48	South Africa	5.86	+57.9%
49	Laos	5.76	-4%
50	Kazakhstan	5.74	+1.8%
51	Lithuania	5.74	-17.3%
52	Slovakia	5.68	-38.7%
53	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.62	+6.1%
54	Brazil	5.62	+31%
55	Ukraine	5.51	-16.6%
56	Paraguay	5.49	+2.2%
57	Cambodia	5.43	+12.8%
58	Belarus	5.32	-10.7%
59	Indonesia Estimated	5.3	-0.1%
60	Armenia	4.9	-23.3%
61	Russia	4.89	-11.2%
62	South Korea	4.82	-0.8%
63	Pakistan	4.72	+3.7%
64	Vietnam	4.65	+2.1%
65	Thailand	4.6	+5%
66	Belize	4.56	+53.1%
67	Lebanon	4.51	+10.8%
68	North Korea	4.31	+6.9%
69	Montenegro	4.22	0%
70	Maldives Estimated	4.09	-7.4%
71	Puerto Rico Estimated	4.03	+7.7%
72	Serbia	4.01	-45.1%
73	Ecuador	4	+12.3%
74	North Macedonia	3.84	-16.9%
75	Myanmar	3.81	+1.7%
76	Mexico	3.79	+1.9%
77	Sri Lanka	3.73	+3.3%
78	Moldova	3.7	+23.7%
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.65	-40.6%
80	Turkmenistan	3.57	-4.2%
81	Iraq	3.56	-8.4%
82	Bhutan	3.52	-1.7%
83	Colombia	3.5	+13.9%
84	Peru	3.41	-2.1%
85	Syria	3.36	-25.1%
86	Ethiopia	3.31	+12.4%
87	El Salvador	3.19	+4.7%
88	Philippines	3.1	+6.7%
89	Venezuela	3.1	-8.1%
90	Fiji	3	0%
91	India	2.94	+9.4%
92	Mali	2.92	+7.1%
93	Barbados Estimated	2.82	+2.2%
94	Japan Estimated	2.69	+0.2%
95	Nepal	2.55	+2.1%
96	Zambia	2.52	+1.3%
97	Suriname	2.39	-3.4%
98	Cuba	2.37	-0.2%
99	Namibia	2.35	+20.6%
100	Bolivia	2.25	-10%
101	Panama	2.18	+0.7%
102	Libya Estimated	2.18	+2.3%
103	Timor-Leste Estimated	2.17	-6.3%
104	Guatemala Estimated	2.15	+0.1%
105	Sierra Leone	2.13	+540.2%
106	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.08	+1.4%
107	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2.03	+10.2%
108	Ghana Estimated	2.01	+3.1%
109	Malawi	2.01	+41.9%
110	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2	-0.5%
111	Djibouti Estimated	2	0%
112	Cameroon	1.84	-7.1%
113	Honduras Estimated	1.83	-1.3%
114	Comoros Estimated	1.83	-1%
115	Uganda Estimated	1.82	-15.2%
116	Georgia	1.81	-30.8%
117	Senegal	1.77	-2.9%
118	Tanzania	1.75	+10.4%
119	Madagascar Estimated	1.74	+0.6%
120	Dominican Republic	1.71	+3.9%
121	Nigeria	1.66	-6.7%
122	Burkina Faso	1.6	-8.8%
123	Dominica Estimated	1.6	+0.3%
124	Gabon Estimated	1.56	-0%
125	Kenya	1.53	+6.9%
126	Costa Rica	1.51	-22.1%
127	Micronesia Estimated	1.46	+1%
128	Niger	1.43	+17.1%
129	Zimbabwe	1.39	+216.3%
130	Rwanda	1.38	-12.4%
131	Guyana Estimated	1.36	-0.1%
132	Guinea	1.35	+10.1%
133	Sudan Estimated	1.33	-3.6%
134	Benin	1.32	-4%
135	Algeria	1.3	-71.2%
136	Burundi	1.3	-12.5%
137	Afghanistan	1.3	-36.8%
138	Nicaragua	1.28	+9.7%
139	Eswatini Estimated	1.24	+1.1%
140	Togo	1.23	+0.6%
141	Chad	1.18	-7.2%
142	Jamaica	1.16	+7.1%
143	Yemen	1.11	+1.3%
144	Lesotho	1.04	+122.4%
145	Eritrea	1	0%
145	Guinea-Bissau	1	+16.7%
145	Mauritania	1	+119.7%
148	Grenada Estimated	1	-0.1%
149	Morocco	0.94	+0.9%
150	Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.93	+3.8%
151	Angola	0.89	-8.7%
152	South Sudan	0.89	+0.7%
153	Central African Republic	0.8	0%
154	Haiti Estimated	0.79	-0.7%
155	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	-0.1%
156	Somalia	0.77	+38.7%
157	Mozambique	0.74	+1.1%
158	Gambia Estimated	0.61	-15%
159	Vanuatu Estimated	0.61	+0.8%
160	Botswana	0.24	-4%
161	Cape Verde	0	-99.9%

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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 2017 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 30.8 tonnes per hectare in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Cape Verde, with 0 tonnes per hectare in 2017.

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