Caribbean vs Puerto Rico: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield over time
- Caribbean
- Puerto Rico
How they compare
Puerto Rico currently reports 24,854 kg/ha against 11,740 kg/ha in Caribbean, a difference of 13,114 kg/ha.
That makes Puerto Rico's figure about 2.1 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 Puerto Rico ranks 5th of 15 countries.
Puerto Rico has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Caribbean | Puerto Rico | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,644 kg/ha | 8,509 kg/ha | 864.96 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 1970s | 8,402 kg/ha | 13,330 kg/ha | 4,928 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 1980s | 8,374 kg/ha | 14,272 kg/ha | 5,897 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 1990s | 6,956 kg/ha | 12,592 kg/ha | 5,636 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2000s | 8,314 kg/ha | 16,864 kg/ha | 8,550 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2010s | 12,243 kg/ha | 21,626 kg/ha | 9,383 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2020s | 12,368 kg/ha | 24,287 kg/ha | 11,919 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher plantains and cooking bananas — yield, Caribbean or Puerto Rico?
- Puerto Rico, at 24,854 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 Puerto Rico?
- 13,114 kg/ha, with Puerto Rico ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Caribbean and Puerto Rico?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Caribbean and Puerto Rico rank globally for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 4th and Puerto Rico ranks 5th 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.