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Ecuador vs Ghana: Corn: Yield gap

Ecuador
0.8353 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Ghana
0.9979 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Ecuador rank
79th
Ghana rank
76th

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Ecuador
  • Ghana
1234200020122024

How they compare

Ghana currently reports 0.9979 tonnes per hectare against 0.8353 tonnes per hectare in Ecuador, a difference of 0.1626 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.2 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 79th and Ghana ranks 76th 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.