Countries by maize (corn) yield

Oman had the highest maize (corn) yield of 163 countries in 2022, at 39.41 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.01 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.74 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.67 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest39.41Oman

Lowest0.01Cape Verde

Median3.74163 countries

World5.67History

Map of countries, 2022

Under 1.4
1.4 to 2.2
2.2 to 3.9
3.9 to 5.8
5.8 to 8
8 and over
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tonnes per hectare, 2022. 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, 2022

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	2022 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2021
1	Oman	39.41	+28.4%
2	United Arab Emirates	20.37	+2.8%
3	Kuwait Estimated	17.08	-12.4%
4	Israel	15.53	-16.7%
5	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	14.22	-1.7%
6	Qatar	12.51	-0.2%
7	Tajikistan Estimated	12.31	-36.1%
8	New Zealand	11.53	+1.2%
9	Spain	11.42	-11%
10	New Caledonia Estimated	11.28	+6.5%
11	Chile	11.03	-6.6%
12	United States	10.89	-1.8%
13	Greece	10.58	-5.9%
14	Uzbekistan	10.46	+15.3%
15	Canada	10.07	+0.7%
16	Switzerland	9.89	+25.9%
17	Austria	9.82	-12%
18	Portugal	9.62	-4.8%
19	Türkiye	9.33	+4.7%
20	Mauritius	9.3	+7.6%
21	Bangladesh	8.91	+3.9%
22	Azerbaijan	8.84	+1.5%
23	Netherlands	8.8	-11.7%
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.54	+91.6%
25	Germany	8.4	-18.9%
26	Italy	8.33	-19.3%
27	Australia	8.17	+22.3%
28	Belgium	7.96	-14.7%
29	Czechia	7.95	-17.6%
30	Bahamas Estimated	7.78	-0.8%
31	Egypt	7.51	-4.1%
32	France	7.47	-24.6%
33	Denmark	7.23	+2.1%
34	Albania	7.09	-0.2%
35	Poland	6.98	-4.9%
36	Sweden	6.89	-19.5%
37	Kyrgyzstan	6.83	+4.8%
38	Argentina	6.73	-9.4%
39	Slovenia	6.68	-28.8%
40	Taiwan	6.46	-2.3%
41	China	6.44	+2.3%
42	Pakistan	6.39	+10.8%
43	Iran	6.38	0%
44	Ukraine	6.35	-17.3%
45	Croatia	6.13	-21.3%
46	Russia	6	+14.2%
47	Iraq	5.99	+24.8%
48	Indonesia	5.98	+3.8%
49	Cambodia Estimated	5.92	+3%
50	South Africa	5.9	-0.4%
51	South Korea	5.89	-0%
52	Syria	5.83	+7.9%
53	Kazakhstan	5.8	-3.1%
54	Suriname	5.8	+71.9%
55	Uruguay	5.76	+6.3%
56	Algeria	5.5	+7.3%
57	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.48	+2.2%
58	Lithuania	5.31	-9.4%
59	Brazil	5.21	+12%
60	Fiji	5.21	+73.6%
61	Armenia	5.16	-4%
62	Luxembourg	5.06	-23.1%
63	Vietnam	5	+1.2%
64	Laos	4.99	+3.4%
65	Bulgaria	4.91	-17.9%
66	North Macedonia	4.78	+9.9%
67	Thailand	4.67	+2.7%
68	Belize	4.67	+3.4%
69	Saudi Arabia	4.6	+1.4%
70	Montenegro	4.54	+7%
71	Ecuador	4.53	-2.4%
72	Serbia	4.5	-23.8%
73	Slovakia	4.31	-44.6%
74	Venezuela	4.26	-13.7%
75	Belarus Estimated	4.2	-18.7%
76	Maldives Estimated	4.17	-0.3%
77	Panama	4.17	+76.5%
78	Colombia	4.15	+4.1%
79	North Korea	3.93	0%
80	Mexico	3.9	+1.2%
81	Myanmar	3.84	+2.2%
82	Paraguay	3.74	-9.5%
83	Peru	3.49	-2%
84	Ethiopia	3.49	+1.6%
85	Bhutan	3.48	-7.6%
86	India	3.4	+2.8%
87	Hungary	3.39	-44.4%
88	Malaysia	3.32	+2.7%
89	Romania	3.3	-43.2%
90	Philippines	3.27	+1.2%
91	Nepal	3.15	+3%
92	Sri Lanka	3.08	-30.4%
93	Lebanon	3	0%
94	El Salvador	2.95	-7%
95	Senegal	2.84	+7.3%
96	Barbados Estimated	2.8	-0.6%
97	Japan Estimated	2.69	+0.1%
98	Mali	2.69	+14.5%
99	Turkmenistan	2.62	-12.5%
100	Ghana	2.5	-1%
101	Yemen	2.47	+0.5%
102	Zambia	2.43	-5.5%
103	Bolivia	2.41	-20.8%
104	Afghanistan	2.24	+17.7%
105	Nigeria	2.23	+8.7%
106	Libya Estimated	2.23	+1.9%
107	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.22	+5.2%
108	Uganda	2.2	-0%
109	Puerto Rico	2.16	-33.6%
110	Georgia	2.07	-32.2%
111	Malawi	2.05	-16.9%
112	Djibouti Estimated	2.03	+0.3%
113	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2	0%
114	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.95	-2.4%
115	Namibia	1.93	-13.4%
116	Honduras Estimated	1.87	+0.5%
117	Dominican Republic	1.85	+2.6%
118	Madagascar Estimated	1.8	-1%
119	Guatemala	1.8	-7.7%
120	Costa Rica	1.8	+3.5%
121	Cuba	1.76	-7.3%
122	Comoros Estimated	1.75	-0.8%
123	Moldova	1.74	-69.8%
124	Timor-Leste Estimated	1.7	+74.5%
125	Cameroon	1.69	-4.4%
126	Dominica Estimated	1.67	+0.9%
127	Burkina Faso	1.66	+9.2%
128	Tanzania Estimated	1.63	+2.2%
129	Sierra Leone	1.6	-46.5%
130	Eswatini	1.59	+11.1%
131	Gabon Estimated	1.56	0%
132	Rwanda	1.53	+0.5%
133	Guinea	1.5	+3.4%
134	Niger	1.48	+173.4%
135	Kenya	1.46	-4.3%
136	Micronesia Estimated	1.45	-0.3%
137	Guyana Estimated	1.37	+0.1%
138	Nicaragua	1.32	-3.8%
139	Mozambique	1.31	+19.2%
140	Togo	1.25	+1.9%
141	Burundi Estimated	1.24	+1.3%
142	Benin	1.16	-3.5%
143	Jamaica	1.16	+4%
144	Chad	1.12	-0.2%
145	Angola	1.12	+3.4%
146	Guinea-Bissau	1.02	+23.1%
147	Sudan Estimated	1.01	+21.8%
148	Eritrea	1	0%
148	Republic of the Congo	1	0%
150	Grenada Estimated	1	-0%
151	South Sudan	1	+18%
152	Gambia Estimated	0.82	-23%
153	Lesotho	0.8	-21.5%
154	Central African Republic	0.8	0%
155	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	+0.1%
156	Haiti Estimated	0.77	+1%
157	Zimbabwe	0.76	-50.3%
158	Mauritania	0.66	+4.9%
159	Somalia	0.65	+32.7%
160	Vanuatu Estimated	0.63	+0.3%
161	Botswana	0.44	-45.1%
162	Morocco	0.31	-41.3%
163	Cape Verde	0.01	-29.4%

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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 2022 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 39.41 tonnes per hectare in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Cape Verde, with 0.01 tonnes per hectare in 2022.

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