Bananas — Area harvested in Barbados
Barbados: Bananas — Area harvested was 171 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Area harvested in Barbados, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Barbados recorded 171 ha for bananas — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of up 18.8% on the previous year and up 0.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — area harvested in Barbados peaked at 229 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 45 ha, in 2022.
That places Barbados 113th out of 155 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 195.56 ha | 190 ha | 200 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 98 ha | 90 ha | 110 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 90.1 ha | 90 ha | 91 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 94.9 ha | 90 ha | 110 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 118 ha | 95 ha | 143 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 167.6 ha | 150 ha | 180 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 156.8 ha | 45 ha | 229 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Barbados
- 110 Cyprus 220 ha compare
- 111 Suriname 209 ha compare
- 112 Sao Tome and Principe 203 ha compare
- 114 Zambia 158 ha compare
- 115 Solomon Islands 138 ha compare
- 116 Seychelles 99 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Barbados
- Agriculture share gdp 1.55 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.55 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
- Rural population 40.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 113,898 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.6% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 118.12 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 981.37 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — area harvested in Barbados?
- Bananas — area harvested in Barbados was 171 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — area harvested recorded in Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 229 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest bananas — area harvested recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 45 ha in 2022.
- How does Barbados rank for bananas — area harvested?
- Barbados ranks 113th out of 155 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Barbados?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Barbados 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.