Eritrea vs Kenya: Corn: Yield gap

Eritrea

2.55 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Kenya

2.53 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Eritrea rank

43rd

Kenya rank

44th

Corn: Yield gap over time

Eritrea
Kenya

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 2.55 tonnes per hectare against 2.53 tonnes per hectare in Kenya, a difference of 0.0162 tonnes per hectare.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Eritrea ahead.

Eritrea ranks 43rd and Kenya ranks 44th 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.