Polynesia vs Puerto Rico: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield over time
- Polynesia
- Puerto Rico
How they compare
Puerto Rico currently reports 24,854 kg/ha against 8,356 kg/ha in Polynesia, a difference of 16,498 kg/ha.
That makes Puerto Rico's figure about 3.0 times Polynesia's.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Polynesia ahead.
Polynesia ranks 6th and Puerto Rico ranks 5th of 12 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Polynesia averaged higher in 2 and Puerto Rico in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Polynesia | Puerto Rico | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,810 kg/ha | 8,509 kg/ha | 6,300 kg/ha | Polynesia |
| 1970s | 16,614 kg/ha | 13,330 kg/ha | 3,284 kg/ha | Polynesia |
| 1980s | 13,017 kg/ha | 14,272 kg/ha | 1,255 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 1990s | 9,975 kg/ha | 12,592 kg/ha | 2,617 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2000s | 7,966 kg/ha | 16,864 kg/ha | 8,898 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2010s | 7,398 kg/ha | 21,626 kg/ha | 14,228 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2020s | 8,405 kg/ha | 24,287 kg/ha | 15,882 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher plantains and cooking bananas — yield, Polynesia or Puerto Rico?
- Puerto Rico, at 24,854 kg/ha against 8,356 kg/ha in Polynesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in plantains and cooking bananas — yield between Polynesia and Puerto Rico?
- 16,498 kg/ha, with Puerto Rico ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Polynesia and Puerto Rico?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Polynesia and Puerto Rico rank globally for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Polynesia ranks 6th and Puerto Rico ranks 5th of 12 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.