Americas vs Puerto Rico: Bananas — Yield
Bananas — Yield over time
- Americas
- Puerto Rico
How they compare
Puerto Rico currently reports 52,205 kg/ha against 23,861 kg/ha in Americas, a difference of 28,344 kg/ha.
That makes Puerto Rico's figure about 2.2 times Americas's.
The two have swapped places 9 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Americas ahead.
Americas ranks 13th and Puerto Rico ranks 10th of 30 groups.
Across the 7 decades both report, Americas averaged higher in 4 and Puerto Rico in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Puerto Rico | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,664 kg/ha | 16,447 kg/ha | 216.42 kg/ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 18,714 kg/ha | 17,164 kg/ha | 1,551 kg/ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 18,475 kg/ha | 18,293 kg/ha | 182.05 kg/ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 18,703 kg/ha | 14,639 kg/ha | 4,064 kg/ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 20,501 kg/ha | 23,177 kg/ha | 2,676 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2010s | 22,699 kg/ha | 45,758 kg/ha | 23,059 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2020s | 23,648 kg/ha | 50,731 kg/ha | 27,084 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bananas — yield, Americas or Puerto Rico?
- Puerto Rico, at 52,205 kg/ha against 23,861 kg/ha in Americas as of 2024.
- What is the difference in bananas — yield between Americas and Puerto Rico?
- 28,344 kg/ha, with Puerto Rico ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Puerto Rico?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Puerto Rico rank globally for bananas — yield?
- Americas ranks 13th and Puerto Rico ranks 10th 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.