Nicaragua vs Puerto Rico: Bananas — Yield
Bananas — Yield over time
- Nicaragua
- Puerto Rico
How they compare
Nicaragua currently reports 53,312 kg/ha against 52,205 kg/ha in Puerto Rico, a difference of 1,107 kg/ha.
Across all 63 years both countries report, Nicaragua has been ahead every year.
Nicaragua ranks 8th and Puerto Rico ranks 9th of 120 countries.
Nicaragua has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Nicaragua | Puerto Rico | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 40,828 kg/ha | 16,447 kg/ha | 24,380 kg/ha | Nicaragua |
| 1970s | 58,332 kg/ha | 17,164 kg/ha | 41,169 kg/ha | Nicaragua |
| 1980s | 44,420 kg/ha | 18,293 kg/ha | 26,127 kg/ha | Nicaragua |
| 1990s | 44,379 kg/ha | 14,639 kg/ha | 29,740 kg/ha | Nicaragua |
| 2000s | 50,183 kg/ha | 23,177 kg/ha | 27,007 kg/ha | Nicaragua |
| 2010s | 56,025 kg/ha | 45,758 kg/ha | 10,266 kg/ha | Nicaragua |
| 2020s | 55,434 kg/ha | 50,363 kg/ha | 5,071 kg/ha | Nicaragua |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bananas — yield, Nicaragua or Puerto Rico?
- Nicaragua, at 53,312 kg/ha against 52,205 kg/ha in Puerto Rico as of 2023.
- What is the difference in bananas — yield between Nicaragua and Puerto Rico?
- 1,107 kg/ha, with Nicaragua ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Nicaragua and Puerto Rico?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do Nicaragua and Puerto Rico rank globally for bananas — yield?
- Nicaragua ranks 8th and Puerto Rico ranks 9th of 120 countries.
- 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.