Colombia vs France: Corn: Yield gap

Colombia

0.4968 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

France

0.7659 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Colombia rank

84th

France rank

81st

Corn: Yield gap over time

Colombia
France

How they compare

France currently reports 0.7659 tonnes per hectare against 0.4968 tonnes per hectare in Colombia, a difference of 0.2691 tonnes per hectare.

That makes France's figure about 1.5 times Colombia's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Colombia ahead.

Colombia ranks 84th and France ranks 81st 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.