Caribbean vs Melanesia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield over time
- Caribbean
- Melanesia
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 22,976 kg/ha against 11,740 kg/ha in Caribbean, a difference of 11,236 kg/ha.
That makes Melanesia's figure about 2.0 times Caribbean's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Caribbean ahead.
Caribbean ranks 4th and Melanesia ranks 1st of 15 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Caribbean averaged higher in 6 and Melanesia in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Caribbean | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,644 kg/ha | 3,857 kg/ha | 3,787 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 1970s | 8,402 kg/ha | 4,550 kg/ha | 3,852 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 1980s | 8,374 kg/ha | 1,602 kg/ha | 6,773 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 1990s | 6,956 kg/ha | 1,106 kg/ha | 5,850 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 2000s | 8,314 kg/ha | 1,954 kg/ha | 6,360 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 2010s | 12,243 kg/ha | 9,989 kg/ha | 2,254 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 2020s | 12,368 kg/ha | 21,962 kg/ha | 9,594 kg/ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher plantains and cooking bananas — yield, Caribbean or Melanesia?
- Melanesia, at 22,976 kg/ha against 11,740 kg/ha in Caribbean as of 2024.
- What is the difference in plantains and cooking bananas — yield between Caribbean and Melanesia?
- 11,236 kg/ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Caribbean and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Caribbean and Melanesia rank globally for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 4th and Melanesia ranks 1st of 15 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Plantains and cooking 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.