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Iraq vs Niger: Corn: Yield gap

Iraq
1.66 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Niger
1.47 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Iraq rank
65th
Niger rank
68th

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Iraq
  • Niger
0246200020122024

How they compare

Iraq currently reports 1.66 tonnes per hectare against 1.47 tonnes per hectare in Niger, a difference of 0.1851 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Iraq's figure about 1.1 times Niger's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Iraq ahead.

Iraq ranks 65th and Niger ranks 68th 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.