Statizoid

Nicaragua vs Uruguay: Corn: Yield gap

Nicaragua
2.73 tonnes per hectare
in 2023
Uruguay
2.68 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Nicaragua rank
41st
Uruguay rank
42nd

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Nicaragua
  • Uruguay
0246200020122024

How they compare

Nicaragua currently reports 2.73 tonnes per hectare against 2.68 tonnes per hectare in Uruguay, a difference of 0.0446 tonnes per hectare.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Uruguay ahead.

Nicaragua ranks 41st 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

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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.