Eritrea vs Uruguay: Corn: Yield gap

Eritrea

2.55 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Uruguay

2.68 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Eritrea rank

43rd

Uruguay rank

42nd

Corn: Yield gap over time

Eritrea
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 2.68 tonnes per hectare against 2.55 tonnes per hectare in Eritrea, a difference of 0.1311 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Eritrea's.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Uruguay ahead.

Eritrea ranks 43rd and Uruguay ranks 42nd 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.