Burundi vs Rwanda: Corn: Yield gap

Burundi

5.08 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Rwanda

5.15 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Burundi rank

15th

Rwanda rank

14th

Corn: Yield gap over time

Burundi
Rwanda

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 5.15 tonnes per hectare against 5.08 tonnes per hectare in Burundi, a difference of 0.063 tonnes per hectare.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Rwanda ahead.

Burundi ranks 15th and Rwanda ranks 14th 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: 07 August 2026

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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.