Malawi vs Rwanda: Cereal yields

Malawi

1.88 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Rwanda

1.78 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Malawi rank

130th

Rwanda rank

133rd

Cereal yields over time

Malawi currently reports 1.88 tonnes per hectare against 1.78 tonnes per hectare in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0935 tonnes per hectare.

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

The two have swapped places 26 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Malawi ranks 130th and Rwanda ranks 133rd of 185 countries.

Indicator: Cereal 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: 186 places, 10,534 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in tonnes per hectare.