Lesotho vs Malawi: Crop yields

Lesotho

0.7195 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Malawi

0.4877 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Lesotho rank

120th

Malawi rank

123rd

Crop yields over time

Lesotho currently reports 0.7195 tonnes per hectare against 0.4877 tonnes per hectare in Malawi, a difference of 0.2318 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.5 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Lesotho ranks 120th and Malawi ranks 123rd of 125 countries.

Indicator: Crop 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: 126 places, 6,889 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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