France vs South Africa: Corn production

How they compare

France currently reports 14.67 million tonnes against 12.85 million tonnes in South Africa, a difference of 1.82 million tonnes.

That makes France's figure about 1.1 times South Africa's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was South Africa ahead.

France ranks 10th and South Africa ranks 12th of 175 countries.