Eastern Asia vs Melanesia: Bananas — Yield
Bananas — Yield over time
- Eastern Asia
- Melanesia
How they compare
Eastern Asia currently reports 37,176 kg/ha against 16,459 kg/ha in Melanesia, a difference of 20,717 kg/ha.
That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 2.3 times Melanesia's.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Eastern Asia ahead.
Eastern Asia ranks 6th and Melanesia ranks 8th of 26 groups.
Eastern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eastern Asia | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,903 kg/ha | 11,935 kg/ha | 1,967 kg/ha | Eastern Asia |
| 1970s | 17,026 kg/ha | 12,266 kg/ha | 4,760 kg/ha | Eastern Asia |
| 1980s | 16,463 kg/ha | 12,694 kg/ha | 3,769 kg/ha | Eastern Asia |
| 1990s | 16,529 kg/ha | 13,937 kg/ha | 2,592 kg/ha | Eastern Asia |
| 2000s | 23,274 kg/ha | 13,936 kg/ha | 9,338 kg/ha | Eastern Asia |
| 2010s | 29,750 kg/ha | 16,056 kg/ha | 13,695 kg/ha | Eastern Asia |
| 2020s | 35,780 kg/ha | 16,258 kg/ha | 19,521 kg/ha | Eastern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bananas — yield, Eastern Asia or Melanesia?
- Eastern Asia, at 37,176 kg/ha against 16,459 kg/ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in bananas — yield between Eastern Asia and Melanesia?
- 20,717 kg/ha, with Eastern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Asia and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Eastern Asia and Melanesia rank globally for bananas — yield?
- Eastern Asia ranks 6th and Melanesia ranks 8th 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.