Malawi vs Tonga: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield over time
- Malawi
- Tonga
How they compare
Malawi currently reports 10,800 kg/ha against 10,121 kg/ha in Tonga, a difference of 679 kg/ha.
That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times Tonga's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Tonga ahead.
Malawi ranks 25th and Tonga ranks 27th of 50 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Malawi averaged higher in 2 and Tonga in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Malawi | Tonga | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,571 kg/ha | 14,810 kg/ha | 12,238 kg/ha | Tonga |
| 1970s | 3,045 kg/ha | 16,614 kg/ha | 13,569 kg/ha | Tonga |
| 1980s | 3,527 kg/ha | 13,017 kg/ha | 9,490 kg/ha | Tonga |
| 1990s | 3,995 kg/ha | 12,723 kg/ha | 8,728 kg/ha | Tonga |
| 2000s | 8,655 kg/ha | 11,737 kg/ha | 3,082 kg/ha | Tonga |
| 2010s | 10,354 kg/ha | 10,138 kg/ha | 216.21 kg/ha | Malawi |
| 2020s | 11,007 kg/ha | 10,070 kg/ha | 936.46 kg/ha | Malawi |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher plantains and cooking bananas — yield, Malawi or Tonga?
- Malawi, at 10,800 kg/ha against 10,121 kg/ha in Tonga as of 2024.
- What is the difference in plantains and cooking bananas — yield between Malawi and Tonga?
- 679 kg/ha, with Malawi ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and Tonga?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Malawi and Tonga rank globally for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Malawi ranks 25th and Tonga ranks 27th of 50 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.