Statizoid

China vs Ethiopia: Corn: Yield gap

China
2.34 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Ethiopia
2.33 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
China rank
52nd
Ethiopia rank
54th

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • China
  • Ethiopia
01234200020122024

How they compare

China currently reports 2.34 tonnes per hectare against 2.33 tonnes per hectare in Ethiopia, a difference of 0.0118 tonnes per hectare.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was China ahead.

China ranks 52nd and Ethiopia ranks 54th 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.