Statizoid

Peru vs Zimbabwe: Corn: Yield gap

Peru
3.98 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Zimbabwe
4.33 tonnes per hectare
in 2024
Peru rank
20th
Zimbabwe rank
19th

Corn: Yield gap over time

  • Peru
  • Zimbabwe
0246200020122024

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 4.33 tonnes per hectare against 3.98 tonnes per hectare in Peru, a difference of 0.3459 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.1 times Peru's.

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

Peru ranks 20th and Zimbabwe ranks 19th 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 Negative values have been replaced by zero, meaning that the attainable yield has been reached.