Chile vs USSR: Barley yields

Chile

7.49 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

USSR

1.45 tonnes per hectare

in 1991

Chile rank

2nd

USSR rank

1st

Barley yields over time

Chile currently reports 7.49 tonnes per hectare against 1.45 tonnes per hectare in USSR, a difference of 6.04 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Chile's figure about 5.2 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 1st of 104 countries.

Indicator: Barley yields
Unit: tonnes per hectare
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025); Broadberry et al. (2015); Brassley (2000) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 105 places, 5,512 data points, 1275–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Yields are measured in tonnes per hectare.