Australia vs Uruguay: Rice yields

Australia

11.91 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Uruguay

9.35 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Australia rank

2nd

Uruguay rank

3rd

Rice yields over time

Australia currently reports 11.91 tonnes per hectare against 9.35 tonnes per hectare in Uruguay, a difference of 2.56 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.3 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 2nd and Uruguay ranks 3rd of 123 countries.

Indicator: Rice yields
Unit: tonnes per hectare
Source: 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: 124 places, 7,162 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.