Malawi vs Nigeria: Corn yields

Malawi

2 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Nigeria

2.03 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Malawi rank

116th

Nigeria rank

114th

Corn yields over time

Nigeria currently reports 2.03 tonnes per hectare against 2 tonnes per hectare in Malawi, a difference of 0.0298 tonnes per hectare.

The two have swapped places 31 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Malawi ranks 116th and Nigeria ranks 114th of 170 countries.

Indicator: Corn yields
Unit: tonnes per hectare
Source: 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: 171 places, 9,544 data points, 1866–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Average corn yields measured in tonnes per hectare.