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Guatemala vs Malawi: Corn: Yield gap

Guatemala
3.2 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Malawi
3.4 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Guatemala rank
28th
Malawi rank
26th

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Guatemala
  • Malawi
012345200020122024

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 3.4 tonnes per hectare against 3.2 tonnes per hectare in Guatemala, a difference of 0.1994 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times Guatemala's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Guatemala ahead.

Guatemala ranks 28th and Malawi ranks 26th 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.