Statizoid

Australia vs Nigeria: Corn: Yield gap

Australia
1.25 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Nigeria
1.42 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Australia rank
71st
Nigeria rank
70th

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Australia
  • Nigeria
0123200020122024

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 1.42 tonnes per hectare against 1.25 tonnes per hectare in Australia, a difference of 0.1701 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 71st and Nigeria ranks 70th of 115 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Corn: Yield gap
Unit
tonnes per hectare
Source
Mueller et al. (2012); USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) (2026); 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
115 places, 2,863 data points, 2000–2025
Last refreshed

Yield gaps are the difference between attainable yields and actual yields, measured in tonnes per hectare. Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.