Americas vs Zimbabwe: Bananas — Yield
Bananas — Yield over time
- Americas
- Zimbabwe
How they compare
Zimbabwe currently reports 40,000 kg/ha against 23,861 kg/ha in Americas, a difference of 16,139 kg/ha.
That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.7 times Americas's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Americas ahead.
Americas ranks 12th and Zimbabwe ranks 15th of 26 groups.
Across the 7 decades both report, Americas averaged higher in 5 and Zimbabwe in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Zimbabwe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,664 kg/ha | 4,516 kg/ha | 12,147 kg/ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 18,714 kg/ha | 4,921 kg/ha | 13,794 kg/ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 18,475 kg/ha | 5,059 kg/ha | 13,416 kg/ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 18,703 kg/ha | 4,946 kg/ha | 13,757 kg/ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 20,501 kg/ha | 6,670 kg/ha | 13,831 kg/ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 22,699 kg/ha | 27,253 kg/ha | 4,553 kg/ha | Zimbabwe |
| 2020s | 23,648 kg/ha | 38,200 kg/ha | 14,552 kg/ha | Zimbabwe |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bananas — yield, Americas or Zimbabwe?
- Zimbabwe, at 40,000 kg/ha against 23,861 kg/ha in Americas as of 2024.
- What is the difference in bananas — yield between Americas and Zimbabwe?
- 16,139 kg/ha, with Zimbabwe ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Zimbabwe?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Zimbabwe rank globally for bananas — yield?
- Americas ranks 12th and Zimbabwe ranks 15th of 26 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.