Countries by maize (corn) yield

Oman had the highest maize (corn) yield of 163 countries in 2021, at 30.69 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.02 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.85 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.83 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest30.69Oman

Lowest0.02Cape Verde

Median3.85163 countries

World5.83History

Map of countries, 2021

Under 1.4
1.4 to 2.4
2.4 to 4
4 to 5.8
5.8 to 8.6
8.6 and over
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tonnes per hectare, 2021. 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, 2021

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	2021 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2020
1	Oman	30.69	+257%
2	United Arab Emirates	19.81	+4.4%
3	Kuwait Estimated	19.49	-4.9%
4	Tajikistan	19.27	+83.9%
5	Israel	18.66	-4.3%
6	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	14.47	-50.5%
7	Spain	12.83	+4.7%
8	Qatar	12.54	+0.6%
9	Chile	11.81	+28.6%
10	New Zealand	11.4	-6.7%
11	Greece	11.24	+11.5%
12	Austria	11.16	-1.6%
13	United States	11.09	+3.1%
14	New Caledonia Estimated	10.59	+12.4%
15	Germany	10.36	+8.1%
16	Italy	10.33	-8.3%
17	Portugal	10.1	+8.1%
18	Canada	10	+3.8%
19	Netherlands	9.97	+16.7%
20	France	9.91	+24.9%
21	Czechia	9.65	+1.9%
22	Slovenia	9.39	-13%
23	Belgium	9.33	+15%
24	Uzbekistan	9.07	-7.1%
25	Türkiye	8.9	-5.4%
26	Azerbaijan	8.71	-6.7%
27	Mauritius	8.64	-3.4%
28	Bangladesh	8.58	+0.8%
29	Sweden	8.56	+26.7%
30	Switzerland	7.86	-28.6%
31	Bahamas Estimated	7.84	+8.8%
32	Egypt	7.83	+0.7%
33	Croatia	7.79	-7.6%
34	Slovakia	7.77	-9.4%
35	Ukraine	7.68	+36.7%
36	Argentina	7.43	-1.6%
37	Poland	7.33	+3.6%
38	Albania	7.11	+1%
39	Denmark	7.07	+13.2%
40	Australia	6.68	-5.8%
41	Taiwan	6.62	+2.5%
42	Luxembourg	6.57	+19.5%
43	Kyrgyzstan	6.52	-4.1%
44	Iran	6.38	-3.9%
45	China	6.29	-0.4%
46	Hungary	6.09	-28.6%
47	Kazakhstan	5.99	+1.7%
48	Bulgaria	5.98	+15.4%
49	South Africa	5.92	+8.7%
50	Serbia	5.91	-25.2%
51	South Korea	5.89	+0.4%
52	Lithuania	5.86	-16.5%
53	Romania	5.8	+46%
54	Pakistan	5.76	-8.6%
55	Indonesia	5.76	+4.2%
56	Cambodia Estimated	5.75	+8.6%
57	Moldova	5.74	+207.5%
58	Uruguay	5.42	-17.1%
59	Syria	5.41	+20.1%
60	Armenia	5.38	+3.3%
61	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.37	+0.7%
62	Russia	5.25	+3.4%
63	Belarus	5.17	+2.6%
64	Algeria	5.13	-15.6%
65	Vietnam	4.94	+1.8%
66	Venezuela	4.93	+18.8%
67	Laos	4.83	-7.6%
68	Iraq	4.8	+3.6%
69	Brazil	4.65	-18.4%
70	Ecuador	4.64	+21.4%
71	Thailand	4.55	+2.1%
72	Saudi Arabia	4.54	+1.5%
73	Belize	4.51	+26%
74	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.46	-37.3%
75	Sri Lanka	4.43	+10.4%
76	North Macedonia	4.35	-5.4%
77	Montenegro	4.24	+1.6%
78	Maldives Estimated	4.19	+2.2%
79	Paraguay	4.13	-22.1%
80	Colombia	3.99	-1.2%
81	North Korea	3.93	+3.6%
82	Mexico	3.85	+0.5%
83	Bhutan	3.77	+4%
84	Myanmar	3.75	-2.5%
85	Peru	3.56	+7.1%
86	Ethiopia	3.43	-7.5%
87	Suriname	3.38	+33.2%
88	India	3.3	+4.5%
89	Puerto Rico Estimated	3.26	-9.9%
90	Malaysia	3.23	n/a
91	Philippines	3.23	+1.6%
92	El Salvador	3.18	+7.7%
93	Nepal	3.06	+3.3%
94	Bolivia	3.05	+35.1%
95	Georgia	3.05	-3%
96	Fiji	3	-6.3%
96	Lebanon	3	0%
98	Turkmenistan	3	-18%
99	Sierra Leone	2.99	+84%
100	Barbados Estimated	2.82	-0.6%
101	Japan Estimated	2.68	-0.4%
102	Senegal	2.65	-0.3%
103	Zambia	2.57	+1.1%
104	Ghana	2.53	-2%
105	Malawi	2.46	+17.5%
106	Yemen	2.46	+7.7%
107	Panama	2.36	-1.2%
108	Mali	2.35	-22%
109	Namibia	2.23	+3.2%
110	Uganda	2.2	+28%
111	Libya	2.19	+1.7%
112	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.11	-3.1%
113	Nigeria	2.05	+0.2%
114	Djibouti Estimated	2.02	+0.7%
115	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2	0%
116	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2	+6.4%
117	Guatemala Estimated	1.95	-3.6%
118	Afghanistan	1.9	-1.8%
119	Cuba	1.89	-5.3%
120	Honduras Estimated	1.86	+1.2%
121	Madagascar Estimated	1.82	+2.8%
122	Dominican Republic	1.8	+0.3%
123	Cameroon	1.77	-0.8%
124	Comoros Estimated	1.76	-0.2%
125	Costa Rica	1.74	-5.3%
126	Dominica Estimated	1.65	+1.1%
127	Tanzania Estimated	1.6	+0.1%
128	Gabon Estimated	1.56	0%
129	Zimbabwe	1.53	+30%
130	Kenya	1.52	-14.1%
131	Rwanda	1.52	-0.1%
132	Burkina Faso	1.52	-13.7%
133	Micronesia Estimated	1.45	+2.2%
134	Guinea	1.45	+2.1%
135	Eswatini	1.43	+11.7%
136	Nicaragua	1.37	+10.4%
137	Guyana Estimated	1.37	+0.1%
138	Togo	1.23	+0.3%
139	Burundi Estimated	1.22	+4.5%
140	Benin	1.21	-5.1%
141	Chad	1.12	-6.6%
142	Jamaica	1.12	+0.3%
143	Mozambique	1.1	+54.1%
144	Angola	1.08	-1.4%
145	Gambia	1.06	+78.8%
146	Lesotho	1.03	+124.4%
147	Eritrea	1	0%
147	Republic of the Congo	1	0%
149	Grenada Estimated	1	+0.1%
150	Timor-Leste	0.97	-63.6%
151	South Sudan	0.84	-4.5%
152	Sudan Estimated	0.83	+18.7%
153	Guinea-Bissau	0.83	+1%
154	Central African Republic	0.8	+14.1%
155	Botswana	0.8	+19.6%
156	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	+0.1%
157	Haiti Estimated	0.76	+36.5%
158	Mauritania	0.63	+1.1%
159	Vanuatu Estimated	0.63	+0.4%
160	Niger	0.54	-28.3%
161	Morocco	0.53	+26.2%
162	Somalia	0.49	-34.7%
163	Cape Verde	0.02	+3.8%

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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. 7 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2021 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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Oman, with 30.69 tonnes per hectare in 2021, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Cape Verde, with 0.02 tonnes per hectare in 2021.

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