Countries by maize (corn) yield

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had the highest maize (corn) yield of 162 countries in 2019, at 28.13 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.02 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.79 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.8 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest28.13Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Lowest0.02Cape Verde

Median3.79162 countries

World5.8History

Map of countries, 2019

Under 1.3
1.3 to 2.3
2.3 to 3.9
3.9 to 5.7
5.7 to 8.2
8.2 and over
No data

tonnes per hectare, 2019. 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, 2019

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	2019 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2018
1	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	28.13	+1%
2	United Arab Emirates	23.84	+14.3%
3	Israel	23.22	+2.6%
4	Kuwait	20.77	+18%
5	Tajikistan	13.73	-7.7%
6	Qatar	12.51	-0.1%
7	Chile	12.1	-3%
8	New Zealand	11.73	+6%
9	Spain	11.73	-1.6%
10	Switzerland	10.9	+11.5%
11	Greece	10.68	+0.5%
12	United States	10.51	-5.1%
13	Austria	10.42	+2.6%
14	Italy	9.99	-4.8%
15	Portugal	9.8	+14.5%
16	Uzbekistan	9.7	-6.5%
17	Türkiye	9.4	-2.4%
18	Slovenia	9.27	-1.9%
19	Canada	9.24	-4.8%
20	New Caledonia Estimated	9.17	-0.2%
21	Croatia	8.98	-1.6%
22	Belgium	8.82	+26.5%
23	Germany	8.81	+8.2%
24	Azerbaijan	8.66	+10.7%
25	Oman	8.6	-0.1%
26	France	8.53	-3.3%
27	Czechia	8.29	+38.7%
28	Bangladesh	8.02	-2.3%
29	Hungary	8.01	-5.2%
30	Argentina	7.86	+29.1%
31	Netherlands	7.8	+20.2%
32	Lithuania	7.67	+17.3%
33	Serbia	7.63	-1.2%
34	Uruguay	7.63	+75.7%
35	Denmark	7.56	+34.2%
36	Bahamas Estimated	7.42	-5.7%
37	Slovakia	7.33	-12.5%
38	Bulgaria	7.24	-8.6%
39	Ukraine	7.19	-8.3%
40	Mauritius	7.17	+18.6%
41	Albania	7.05	-2.4%
42	Sweden	6.98	+68.3%
43	Kyrgyzstan	6.7	+1.6%
44	Iran Estimated	6.68	-0.1%
45	Romania	6.5	-14.9%
46	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.44	-3%
47	China	6.32	+3.5%
48	Indonesia Estimated	6.14	+15.8%
49	Taiwan	6.01	-0.4%
50	Saudi Arabia	5.85	-6.1%
51	Brazil	5.77	+13%
52	Belarus	5.75	-11.8%
53	Kazakhstan	5.73	-0.2%
54	Russia	5.7	+18.6%
55	Pakistan	5.61	+13%
56	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.56	+1.2%
57	Australia	5.55	-24.3%
58	Poland	5.51	-6.2%
59	Laos	5.23	-11.8%
60	South Korea	5.14	+2%
61	Paraguay	5.14	+2.9%
62	Egypt	4.95	-34.1%
63	Cambodia Estimated	4.82	-18.4%
64	Vietnam	4.8	+1.8%
65	Luxembourg	4.71	-7.8%
66	Iraq	4.7	+4.5%
67	North Korea	4.63	+25.6%
68	Ecuador	4.58	+26.5%
69	South Africa	4.55	-8.5%
70	Thailand	4.35	-5.4%
71	Montenegro	4.34	+2.1%
72	Moldova	4.33	+2%
73	North Macedonia	4.27	-17%
74	Maldives Estimated	4.24	+0.2%
75	Armenia	4.18	-24%
76	Algeria	4.15	-6.5%
77	Puerto Rico Estimated	4.1	-17.9%
78	Mexico	4.07	+6.7%
79	Sri Lanka	3.87	+1.6%
80	Myanmar	3.85	+0.8%
81	Syria	3.83	+2.6%
82	Colombia	3.74	+6.9%
83	Ethiopia Estimated	3.66	+9.5%
84	Peru	3.48	+1.4%
85	Sierra Leone	3.3	+53.9%
86	Turkmenistan	3.17	+0.6%
87	Philippines	3.17	+2.4%
88	Bhutan	3.07	-13%
89	Venezuela	3	+4%
90	Lebanon	3	0%
91	India	3	-0.8%
92	Fiji	3	-0.2%
93	El Salvador	2.97	+17.4%
94	Barbados Estimated	2.84	+0.1%
95	Georgia	2.84	+4.3%
96	Nepal	2.82	+3.6%
97	Belize	2.75	-34.5%
98	Japan Estimated	2.68	+0.5%
99	Mali	2.66	-7.5%
100	Suriname	2.63	+5.2%
101	Ghana	2.53	+12.1%
102	Timor-Leste	2.51	+17.1%
103	Cuba	2.39	+0.1%
104	Zambia	2.38	+8%
105	Panama	2.32	-2.9%
106	Libya	2.28	+0.4%
107	Namibia Estimated	2.16	-8.1%
108	Guatemala Estimated	2.11	-1.9%
109	Bolivia	2.11	-22.7%
110	Senegal	2.05	+6.1%
111	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.03	-3.3%
112	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2.01	+0.2%
113	Djibouti Estimated	2	+0.2%
114	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.99	-11%
115	Malawi	1.96	+22.3%
116	Afghanistan	1.95	+32.1%
117	Cameroon	1.91	+3.2%
118	Nigeria Estimated	1.86	+11.1%
119	Costa Rica	1.84	-15.8%
120	Honduras Estimated	1.82	+0.5%
121	Comoros Estimated	1.79	-1%
122	Madagascar	1.74	-0.9%
123	Dominican Republic	1.7	-0.3%
124	Burkina Faso	1.69	+1.1%
125	Tanzania	1.65	-6.8%
126	Dominica Estimated	1.62	+0.8%
127	Gabon Estimated	1.56	+0.1%
128	Kenya	1.56	-11.6%
129	Niger	1.56	+6.6%
130	Micronesia Estimated	1.48	+0.6%
131	Uganda	1.46	+5.4%
132	Rwanda	1.46	+2.1%
133	Guinea	1.45	+8.3%
134	Guyana Estimated	1.36	+0.2%
135	Yemen	1.32	+18.7%
136	Nicaragua	1.32	-5.3%
137	Eswatini Estimated	1.28	+0.6%
138	Chad	1.26	-1.4%
139	Togo	1.23	-1%
140	Jamaica	1.13	-2%
141	Haiti	1.11	+91.4%
142	Benin	1.08	-17.5%
143	Angola	1.07	+1.8%
144	Sudan	1.03	-31.6%
145	Burundi	1	-34.6%
146	Eritrea	1	0%
146	Republic of the Congo	1	+4%
148	Grenada Estimated	1	+0.1%
149	Mozambique	0.88	+1.3%
150	South Sudan	0.88	+3.6%
151	Central African Republic	0.8	0%
152	Zimbabwe	0.78	-42.2%
153	Guinea-Bissau	0.78	-22.2%
154	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	-0%
155	Lesotho	0.77	-11.5%
156	Mauritania Estimated	0.75	+6.1%
157	Morocco	0.64	-19.9%
158	Vanuatu Estimated	0.62	+1.1%
159	Somalia	0.57	-48%
160	Gambia Estimated	0.46	-11%
161	Botswana	0.2	-36.9%
162	Cape Verde	0.02	+2.2%

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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. 8 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2019 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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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with 28.13 tonnes per hectare in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Cape Verde, with 0.02 tonnes per hectare in 2019.

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