Malawi vs Zambia: Bean yields

Malawi

0.6165 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Zambia

0.5589 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Malawi rank

116th

Zambia rank

118th

Bean yields over time

Malawi currently reports 0.6165 tonnes per hectare against 0.5589 tonnes per hectare in Zambia, a difference of 0.0576 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times Zambia's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Zambia ahead.

Malawi ranks 116th and Zambia ranks 118th of 132 countries.

Indicator: Bean yields
Unit: tonnes per hectare
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 133 places, 6,635 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.