EU countries by rice yield, 2024

Greece had the highest rice yield of 8 EU countries in 2024, at 7.92 tonnes per hectare. Hungary had the lowest, at 3.63 tonnes per hectare. The median was 5.95 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest7.92Greece

Lowest3.63Hungary

Median5.958 EU countries

All EU countries, 2024

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	EU countries	2024 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2023
1	Greece	7.92	+14.8%
2	Spain	7.05	+16.3%
3	Italy	6.41	-2.3%
4	Portugal	6.21	-3%
5	Romania	5.69	+14.6%
6	Bulgaria	5.42	-5.4%
7	France	5.34	-5.2%
8	Hungary	3.63	+1.9%

Other periods

About this ranking

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 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): 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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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Rice, yield, kg/ha (item 27, element 5412), EU countries by rice yield, 2024. 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/rice-yield/eu-countries. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Which EU country has the highest rice yield?

Greece, with 7.92 tonnes per hectare in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which EU country has the lowest rice yield?

Hungary, with 3.63 tonnes per hectare in 2024.

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): Rice, yield, kg/ha (item 27, element 5412). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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