Ecuador vs Sri Lanka: Corn: Yield gap

Ecuador
0.8353 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Sri Lanka
0.6358 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Ecuador rank
79th
Sri Lanka rank
82nd

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Ecuador
  • Sri Lanka
01234200020122024

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 0.8353 tonnes per hectare against 0.6358 tonnes per hectare in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.1995 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Ecuador's figure about 1.3 times Sri Lanka's.

Across all 25 years both countries report, Ecuador has been ahead every year.

Ecuador ranks 79th and Sri Lanka ranks 82nd 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.