EU countries by maize (corn) yield

Spain had the highest maize (corn) yield of 21 EU countries in 2018, at 11.92 tonnes per hectare. Sweden had the lowest, at 4.14 tonnes per hectare. The median was 8.14 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest11.92Spain

Lowest4.14Sweden

Median8.1421 EU countries

Map of EU countries, 2018

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tonnes per hectare, 2018. 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, 2018

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	2018 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2017
1	Spain	11.92	+5.3%
2	Greece	10.63	-8.3%
3	Italy	10.49	+11.9%
4	Austria	10.15	+2.4%
5	Slovenia	9.45	+33%
6	Croatia	9.12	+44.6%
7	France	8.82	-12.9%
8	Portugal	8.56	-0.6%
9	Hungary	8.45	+23.9%
10	Slovakia	8.37	+47.4%
11	Germany	8.14	-22.7%
12	Bulgaria	7.92	+23.1%
13	Romania	7.64	+28.1%
14	Belgium	6.97	-43.8%
15	Lithuania	6.54	+14%
16	Netherlands	6.49	-51.8%
17	Czechia	5.98	-12.6%
18	Poland	5.88	-17.9%
19	Denmark	5.63	-26.2%
20	Luxembourg	5.11	-40.5%
21	Sweden	4.14	n/a

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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. 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, 2018) [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, 2018. 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=2018. 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, 2018. 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=2018.

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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, 2018 [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=2018 (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, 2018}},
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  url = {https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/maize-yield/eu-countries?period=2018. 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?

Spain, with 11.92 tonnes per hectare in 2018, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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

Sweden, with 4.14 tonnes per hectare in 2018.

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.

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