Bananas — Area harvested in Benin
Benin: Bananas — Area harvested was 4,348 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Area harvested in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — area harvested in Benin is 4,348 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.3% on the previous year and up 8.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — area harvested in Benin peaked at 4,395 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 2,000 ha, in 1961.
Benin ranks 70th of 155 countries on this measure, 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 | 2,022 ha | 2,000 ha | 2,200 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,350 ha | 2,200 ha | 2,400 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,500 ha | 2,500 ha | 2,500 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,498 ha | 2,386 ha | 2,746 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,632 ha | 2,520 ha | 2,977 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,943 ha | 3,182 ha | 4,333 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,357 ha | 4,331 ha | 4,395 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Benin
- 67 Equatorial Guinea 6,574 ha compare
- 68 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6,064 ha compare
- 69 Eswatini 5,076 ha compare
- 71 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 4,240 ha compare
- 72 Polynesia 3,676 ha compare
- 73 Belize 2,949 ha compare
- 73 Israel 2,949 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — area harvested in Benin?
- Bananas — area harvested in Benin was 4,348 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — area harvested recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 4,395 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest bananas — area harvested recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Benin rank for bananas — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 70th out of 155 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin 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.