Cameroon vs Madagascar: Bananas — Area harvested
Bananas — Area harvested over time
- Cameroon
- Madagascar
How they compare
Madagascar currently reports 72,365 ha against 62,047 ha in Cameroon, a difference of 10,318 ha.
That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.2 times Cameroon's.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Madagascar ahead.
Cameroon ranks 27th and Madagascar ranks 25th of 155 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Cameroon averaged higher in 3 and Madagascar in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cameroon | Madagascar | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,222 ha | 21,162 ha | 11,940 ha | Madagascar |
| 1970s | 15,020 ha | 37,621 ha | 22,601 ha | Madagascar |
| 1980s | 33,858 ha | 38,124 ha | 4,266 ha | Madagascar |
| 1990s | 51,646 ha | 42,554 ha | 9,092 ha | Cameroon |
| 2000s | 78,238 ha | 53,606 ha | 24,632 ha | Cameroon |
| 2010s | 81,724 ha | 67,437 ha | 14,286 ha | Cameroon |
| 2020s | 61,009 ha | 72,521 ha | 11,512 ha | Madagascar |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bananas — area harvested, Cameroon or Madagascar?
- Madagascar, at 72,365 ha against 62,047 ha in Cameroon as of 2024.
- What is the difference in bananas — area harvested between Cameroon and Madagascar?
- 10,318 ha, with Madagascar ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Madagascar?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Cameroon and Madagascar rank globally for bananas — area harvested?
- Cameroon ranks 27th and Madagascar ranks 25th of 155 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Bananas — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.