Countries by rice yield

Morocco had the highest rice yield of 116 countries in 2020, at 11.35 tonnes per hectare. The Comoros had the lowest, at 0.3 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.89 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 4.69 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest11.35Morocco

Lowest0.3Comoros

Median3.89116 countries

World4.69History

Map of countries, 2020

Under 1.8
1.8 to 3.1
3.1 to 3.9
3.9 to 4.7
4.7 to 6.5
6.5 and over
No data

tonnes per hectare, 2020. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Rice, yield, kg/ha (item 27, element 5412). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2020

tonnes per hectare. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Rice, yield, kg/ha (item 27, element 5412). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2020 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2019
1	Morocco	11.35	+40.1%
2	Tajikistan	10.34	+20.4%
3	Australia	10.03	+14.4%
4	Egypt	9.62	+9.8%
5	Uruguay	8.62	+4.1%
6	United States	8.54	+2%
7	Peru	8.24	+7%
8	Greece	7.96	+7.6%
9	Türkiye	7.82	-1.2%
10	El Salvador	7.33	-8.3%
11	Spain	7.24	-3.9%
12	China	7.04	-0.2%
13	Japan Estimated	6.83	-0%
14	Taiwan	6.69	+0.8%
15	Italy	6.63	-2.2%
16	Brazil	6.61	+9%
17	Argentina	6.6	+1.7%
18	Paraguay	6.6	-0%
19	South Korea	6.49	-5.6%
20	Nicaragua	6.45	+1.7%
21	Chile	6.43	-3.5%
22	Kenya	6.4	-0.4%
23	Mexico	6.21	-2.4%
24	Uzbekistan	6.19	+27.7%
25	North Macedonia	6.14	+0.5%
26	Vietnam	5.92	+1.4%
27	Russia	5.83	+1.1%
28	Guyana	5.7	-3.4%
29	Kazakhstan	5.44	-1%
30	Ukraine	5.42	+4.2%
31	Iran	5.33	+7.6%
32	Bulgaria	5.33	-11.2%
33	France	5.27	-3.6%
34	Indonesia	5.13	+0.3%
35	Portugal	5.12	-8.6%
36	Dominican Republic	5.1	-0.8%
37	Sri Lanka	4.8	+0.1%
38	Bangladesh	4.79	+0.1%
39	Colombia	4.63	+3.7%
40	Iraq	4.57	+1.5%
41	Belize	4.53	-21.3%
42	North Korea	4.49	-25.3%
43	Afghanistan	4.44	-0.8%
44	Sudan	4.37	+5.1%
45	Suriname	4.32	-5.2%
46	Mauritania Estimated	4.28	+8%
47	Bhutan	4.26	+4.8%
48	Turkmenistan	4.23	+5%
49	Niger Estimated	4.18	-8.3%
50	Romania	4.11	-22.7%
51	Philippines	4.09	+1.1%
52	Venezuela	4.06	+18.2%
53	India	4.06	+0.2%
54	Honduras Estimated	3.94	+0.2%
55	Rwanda	3.94	-1.5%
56	Benin	3.94	-0.8%
57	Hungary	3.93	-5.7%
58	Panama	3.92	+2.3%
59	Myanmar	3.87	+0.2%
60	Laos	3.82	-8.1%
61	Nepal	3.82	+0.3%
62	Pakistan	3.79	+3.3%
63	Fiji	3.77	+9.7%
64	Kyrgyzstan	3.73	+2.3%
65	Costa Rica	3.67	-18.7%
66	Malaysia	3.65	+4.4%
67	Cuba	3.57	+6.8%
68	Ecuador	3.43	-0.1%
69	Mali	3.35	-3%
70	Cambodia	3.35	+0.3%
71	Ghana	3.34	+1.9%
72	Senegal	3.34	-0%
73	Tanzania Estimated	3.3	+0.1%
74	Puerto Rico Estimated	3.26	+3.3%
75	Ethiopia	3.14	+17.2%
76	Azerbaijan	3.13	+13.4%
77	Guatemala Estimated	3.07	+1.4%
78	Brunei	3	+43.5%
79	Thailand	2.88	-4.2%
80	Eswatini Estimated	2.87	-28.2%
81	Gabon Estimated	2.87	+5.8%
82	South Africa Estimated	2.84	+0.9%
83	Bolivia	2.76	-13.8%
84	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.73	-2.2%
85	Haiti	2.68	-14.9%
86	Timor-Leste	2.64	+23.4%
87	Madagascar	2.52	+3.3%
88	Saudi Arabia	2.34	+16.8%
89	Burkina Faso	2.24	+5.3%
90	Cameroon	2.13	-0.4%
91	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2.13	+0.6%
92	Somalia Estimated	2.05	+2.1%
93	Malawi	2	+6.3%
94	Nigeria	1.95	-4.7%
95	Micronesia Estimated	1.84	-2.5%
96	Solomon Islands Estimated	1.82	-4.7%
97	Algeria Estimated	1.79	+0.2%
98	Sierra Leone	1.74	+10.3%
99	Togo	1.68	+2.7%
100	Guinea-Bissau	1.66	+7.9%
101	Burundi Estimated	1.61	-4.6%
102	Guinea	1.47	+8.9%
103	Chad	1.47	-2.7%
104	Zambia	1.4	+16.2%
105	Uganda	1.24	+31.9%
106	Angola	1.24	+3.7%
107	Liberia Estimated	1.15	+1.8%
108	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	1.12	+15%
109	Central African Republic	0.9	-35.7%
110	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	0.89	-8.8%
111	South Sudan	0.89	+0.5%
112	Gambia	0.66	+25%
113	Mozambique	0.62	+27%
114	Zimbabwe Estimated	0.61	+37%
115	Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.56	-1.9%
116	Comoros Estimated	0.3	+0.2%

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Harvested production of rice as paddy 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. 8 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2020 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): Rice, yield, kg/ha (item 27, 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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Morocco, with 11.35 tonnes per hectare in 2020, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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The Comoros, with 0.3 tonnes per hectare in 2020.

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