Uruguay vs USSR: Rice yields

Uruguay

9.35 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

USSR

3.31 tonnes per hectare

in 1991

Uruguay rank

3rd

USSR rank

1st

Rice yields over time

Uruguay currently reports 9.35 tonnes per hectare against 3.31 tonnes per hectare in USSR, a difference of 6.04 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 2.8 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Uruguay ahead.

Uruguay ranks 3rd and USSR ranks 1st 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.