EU countries by maize (corn) yield

The Netherlands had the highest maize (corn) yield of 20 EU countries in 2017, at 13.46 tonnes per hectare. Slovakia had the lowest, at 5.68 tonnes per hectare. The median was 8.11 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest13.46Netherlands

Lowest5.68Slovakia

Median8.1120 EU countries

Map of EU countries, 2017

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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).

All EU 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	EU countries	2017 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2016
1	Netherlands	13.46	+34%
2	Belgium	12.42	+34.6%
3	Greece	11.6	+2.3%
4	Spain	11.32	-0.1%
5	Germany	10.53	+9.1%
6	France	10.12	+23.4%
7	Austria	9.91	-11.2%
8	Italy	9.37	-9.5%
9	Portugal	8.61	+7.4%
10	Luxembourg	8.6	+28.4%
11	Denmark	7.63	-0.7%
12	Poland	7.15	-2.2%
13	Slovenia	7.11	-25.3%
14	Czechia	6.84	-30.1%
15	Hungary	6.82	-21%
16	Bulgaria	6.44	+17.7%
17	Croatia	6.31	-26.2%
18	Romania	5.96	+43%
19	Lithuania	5.74	-17.3%
20	Slovakia	5.68	-38.7%

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About this ranking

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 EU countries are compared on one definition. 1 EU 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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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2025). Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412) (EU countries by maize (corn) yield, 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip

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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412), EU countries by maize (corn) yield, 2017. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 31 Dec. 2025, https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/maize-yield/eu-countries?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2025. Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). EU countries by maize (corn) yield, 2017. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/maize-yield/eu-countries?period=2017.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412), EU countries by maize (corn) yield, 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/maize-yield/eu-countries?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412): EU countries by maize (corn) yield, 2017}},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/maize-yield/eu-countries?period=2017. Publisher attribution: 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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Which EU country has the highest maize (corn) yield?

The Netherlands, with 13.46 tonnes per hectare in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which EU country has the lowest maize (corn) yield?

Slovakia, with 5.68 tonnes per hectare in 2017.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 EU countries have no value for 2017 and are not ranked.

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