India vs Middle Africa: Bananas — Area harvested
Bananas — Area harvested over time
- India
- Middle Africa
How they compare
India currently reports 948,469 ha against 511,443 ha in Middle Africa, a difference of 437,026 ha.
That makes India's figure about 1.9 times Middle Africa's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, India has been ahead every year.
India ranks 1st and Middle Africa ranks 3rd of 141 countries.
India has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Middle Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 201,644 ha | 113,156 ha | 88,489 ha | India |
| 1970s | 241,540 ha | 144,027 ha | 97,513 ha | India |
| 1980s | 319,610 ha | 185,343 ha | 134,267 ha | India |
| 1990s | 430,560 ha | 217,537 ha | 213,023 ha | India |
| 2000s | 581,040 ha | 257,444 ha | 323,596 ha | India |
| 2010s | 827,407 ha | 468,484 ha | 358,924 ha | India |
| 2020s | 945,294 ha | 495,811 ha | 449,483 ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bananas — area harvested, India or Middle Africa?
- India, at 948,469 ha against 511,443 ha in Middle Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in bananas — area harvested between India and Middle Africa?
- 437,026 ha, with India ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Middle Africa?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do India and Middle Africa rank globally for bananas — area harvested?
- India ranks 1st and Middle Africa ranks 3rd of 141 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.