Africa vs India: Bananas — Yield
Bananas — Yield over time
- Africa
- India
How they compare
India currently reports 39,658 kg/ha against 13,661 kg/ha in Africa, a difference of 25,997 kg/ha.
That makes India's figure about 2.9 times Africa's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, India has been ahead every year.
Africa ranks 21st and India ranks 18th of 30 groups.
India has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Africa | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,130 kg/ha | 14,372 kg/ha | 7,242 kg/ha | India |
| 1970s | 7,158 kg/ha | 14,898 kg/ha | 7,740 kg/ha | India |
| 1980s | 7,456 kg/ha | 16,659 kg/ha | 9,202 kg/ha | India |
| 1990s | 7,009 kg/ha | 25,187 kg/ha | 18,178 kg/ha | India |
| 2000s | 7,841 kg/ha | 32,023 kg/ha | 24,181 kg/ha | India |
| 2010s | 10,524 kg/ha | 35,310 kg/ha | 24,786 kg/ha | India |
| 2020s | 13,163 kg/ha | 36,894 kg/ha | 23,731 kg/ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bananas — yield, Africa or India?
- India, at 39,658 kg/ha against 13,661 kg/ha in Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in bananas — yield between Africa and India?
- 25,997 kg/ha, with India ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and India?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Africa and India rank globally for bananas — yield?
- Africa ranks 21st and India ranks 18th of 30 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Bananas — Yield. 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.