Countries by maize (corn) yield

Qatar had the highest maize (corn) yield of 163 countries in 2023, at 20.98 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.02 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.87 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.87 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest20.98Qatar

Lowest0.02Cape Verde

Median3.87163 countries

World5.87History

Map of countries, 2023

Under 1.3
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tonnes per hectare, 2023. 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, 2023

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	2023 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2022
1	Qatar	20.98	+67.7%
2	United Arab Emirates	20.38	0%
3	Israel	17.41	+12.1%
4	Kuwait Estimated	16.94	-0.8%
5	Tajikistan Estimated	14.11	+14.6%
6	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	14.07	-1.1%
7	Uzbekistan	12.74	+21.8%
8	New Caledonia Estimated	11.86	+5.2%
9	Spain	11.82	+3.5%
10	Mauritius	11.63	+25.1%
11	United States	11.13	+2.2%
12	Greece	10.85	+2.6%
13	Chile	10.85	-1.6%
14	Italy	10.73	+28.8%
15	Netherlands	10.27	+16.6%
16	New Zealand	10.19	-11.7%
17	Portugal	10.18	+5.8%
18	Canada	10.15	+0.8%
19	Azerbaijan	10.03	+13.4%
20	Austria	9.93	+1.1%
21	Belgium	9.83	+23.5%
22	France	9.76	+30.7%
23	Germany	9.65	+14.8%
24	Türkiye	9.39	+0.7%
25	Bangladesh	9.24	+3.7%
26	Slovenia	8.79	+31.5%
27	Switzerland	8.63	-12.7%
28	Lithuania	8.11	+52.8%
29	Hungary	8.1	+139.2%
30	Slovakia	7.99	+85.4%
31	Sweden	7.97	+15.6%
32	Czechia	7.88	-0.8%
33	Ukraine	7.81	+22.9%
34	Armenia	7.75	+50%
35	Saudi Arabia	7.65	+66.4%
36	Egypt	7.62	+1.5%
37	Bahamas Estimated	7.6	-2.3%
38	Croatia	7.4	+20.8%
39	Albania	7.36	+3.8%
40	Serbia	7.18	+59.7%
41	Syria	7.17	+22.8%
42	Poland	7.15	+2.5%
43	Kyrgyzstan	7.11	+4%
44	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.97	-18.4%
45	Iran Estimated	6.58	+3.2%
46	China	6.53	+1.5%
47	South Africa	6.35	+7.7%
48	Kazakhstan	6.25	+7.7%
49	Iraq	6.06	+1.2%
50	Taiwan	6.03	-6.6%
51	Algeria	6	+9.1%
52	Cambodia Estimated	5.98	+1%
53	Indonesia	5.97	-0.2%
54	Fiji	5.95	+14.3%
55	Pakistan	5.93	-7.1%
56	Brazil	5.91	+13.5%
57	Russia Estimated	5.84	-2.6%
58	South Korea Estimated	5.68	-3.6%
59	Luxembourg	5.59	+10.5%
60	Belarus	5.56	+32.2%
61	Denmark	5.44	-24.7%
62	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.43	-1%
63	Argentina	5.11	-24.1%
64	Paraguay	5.08	+35.8%
65	Oman	5.05	-87.2%
66	Vietnam	5.04	+0.9%
67	Australia	4.97	-39.2%
68	Montenegro	4.96	+9.3%
69	Laos	4.77	-4.3%
70	Thailand	4.65	-0.4%
71	Bulgaria	4.58	-6.7%
72	North Macedonia	4.58	-4.1%
73	Suriname	4.57	-21.3%
74	Panama	4.4	+5.7%
75	Ecuador	4.4	-2.8%
76	Venezuela	4.4	+3.3%
77	Mexico	4.28	+9.8%
78	Maldives Estimated	4.15	-0.5%
79	Colombia	4.04	-2.8%
80	Romania	3.98	+20.7%
81	North Korea	3.93	0%
82	Myanmar Estimated	3.87	+0.9%
83	Belize	3.82	-18.1%
84	Bhutan	3.62	+4%
85	Peru	3.62	+3.5%
86	Ethiopia Estimated	3.41	-2.3%
87	India	3.33	-2%
88	Philippines	3.31	+1.2%
89	Nepal	3.17	+0.4%
90	Senegal	3.07	+8.2%
91	El Salvador Estimated	3.01	+1.9%
92	Lebanon	3	0%
93	Sri Lanka	2.91	-5.4%
94	Afghanistan	2.86	+27.8%
95	Puerto Rico Estimated	2.84	+31.5%
96	Moldova	2.8	+61.6%
97	Barbados Estimated	2.8	-0.1%
98	Ghana	2.75	+9.9%
99	Japan Estimated	2.69	0%
100	Georgia	2.64	+27.4%
101	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.62	+18.1%
102	Bolivia	2.5	+3.4%
103	Yemen Estimated	2.44	-1.1%
104	Malaysia	2.44	-26.6%
105	Zambia	2.3	-5.2%
106	Libya Estimated	2.27	+1.6%
107	Mali	2.24	-16.4%
108	Uganda Estimated	2.18	-0.8%
109	Turkmenistan	2.17	-17.1%
110	Timor-Leste Estimated	2.08	+22.4%
111	Djibouti Estimated	2.03	+0.3%
112	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2	-0%
113	Malawi Estimated	1.96	-4.2%
114	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	1.94	-0.6%
115	Nigeria	1.94	-13.1%
116	Dominican Republic	1.92	+4%
117	Tanzania Estimated	1.91	+16.7%
118	Honduras Estimated	1.88	+0.7%
119	Costa Rica	1.87	+3.6%
120	Cameroon	1.83	+8.3%
121	Madagascar Estimated	1.82	+0.8%
122	Guatemala	1.8	-0.2%
123	Kenya	1.76	+20.9%
124	Comoros Estimated	1.73	-0.9%
125	Dominica Estimated	1.68	+0.7%
126	Burkina Faso	1.64	-1.4%
127	Rwanda	1.6	+4.4%
128	Sierra Leone	1.58	-1.1%
129	Gabon Estimated	1.56	-0%
130	Guinea	1.51	+0.7%
131	Micronesia Estimated	1.44	-0.6%
132	Nicaragua	1.42	+8%
133	Uruguay	1.42	-75.4%
134	Niger	1.41	-4.7%
135	Guinea-Bissau	1.4	+37.7%
136	Guyana Estimated	1.37	-0.1%
137	Cuba	1.3	-26.1%
138	Togo	1.25	-0%
139	Eswatini	1.22	-23.3%
140	Burundi Estimated	1.21	-2.2%
141	Namibia	1.18	-38.6%
142	Angola	1.16	+3.1%
143	Jamaica	1.14	-1.9%
144	Chad	1.11	-1.4%
145	Sudan Estimated	1.01	-0.9%
146	Eritrea	1	0%
146	Republic of the Congo	1	0%
148	Grenada Estimated	1	-0%
149	South Sudan Estimated	0.99	-0.2%
150	Benin	0.99	-14.8%
151	Somalia	0.95	+46.2%
152	Zimbabwe	0.94	+22.6%
153	Lesotho	0.85	+5.7%
154	Gambia	0.81	-1.6%
155	Central African Republic	0.8	0%
156	Mozambique	0.79	-39.7%
157	Haiti Estimated	0.77	+0.1%
158	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	-0.1%
159	Mauritania	0.65	-1.4%
160	Vanuatu Estimated	0.63	+0.6%
161	Botswana	0.61	+39%
162	Morocco	0.13	-58.4%
163	Cape Verde	0.02	+100%

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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 2023 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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Qatar, with 20.98 tonnes per hectare in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Cape Verde, with 0.02 tonnes per hectare in 2023.

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