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Kenya vs Nicaragua: Corn: Yield gap

Kenya
2.53 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Nicaragua
2.73 tonnes per hectare
in 2023
Kenya rank
44th
Nicaragua rank
41st

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Kenya
  • Nicaragua
0123200020122024

How they compare

Nicaragua currently reports 2.73 tonnes per hectare against 2.53 tonnes per hectare in Kenya, a difference of 0.1919 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Nicaragua's figure about 1.1 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Kenya ranks 44th and Nicaragua ranks 41st 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.