Bananas — Area harvested in Americas
Americas: Bananas — Area harvested was 1.37 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Area harvested in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — area harvested in Americas is 1.37 million ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.8% on the previous year and up 5.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — area harvested in Americas peaked at 1.38 million ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 664,933 ha, in 1961.
That places Americas 7th out of 32 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 791,351 ha | 664,933 ha | 879,437 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 868,785 ha | 821,788 ha | 902,758 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 939,946 ha | 860,045 ha | 1.07 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.16 million ha | 1.04 million ha | 1.23 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.19 million ha | 1.17 million ha | 1.23 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.33 million ha | 1.29 million ha | 1.38 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.35 million ha | 1.33 million ha | 1.37 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 4 China 325,500 ha compare
- 5 United Republic of Tanzania 316,335 ha compare
- 6 China, mainland 310,093 ha compare
- 7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 215,911 ha compare
- 8 Rwanda 202,488 ha compare
- 9 Angola 190,740 ha compare
- 10 Philippines 186,270 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 191.53 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 32.73 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — area harvested in Americas?
- Bananas — area harvested in Americas was 1.37 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 1.38 million ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest bananas — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 664,933 ha in 1961.
- How does Americas rank for bananas — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 7th out of 32 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Bananas — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.