Bananas — Area harvested in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Bananas — Area harvested was 1,836 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Bananas — Area harvested in Burkina Faso, 2013–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Burkina Faso recorded 1,836 ha for bananas — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and down 12.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — area harvested in Burkina Faso peaked at 2,200 ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 1,400 ha, in 2019.
Burkina Faso ranks 71st of 141 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Bananas — Area harvested in Burkina Faso, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2,000 ha | — |
| 2014 | 2,100 ha | +5.0% |
| 2015 | 1,900 ha | -9.5% |
| 2016 | 2,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 2017 | 2,200 ha | +10.0% |
| 2018 | 2,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1,400 ha | -36.4% |
| 2020 | 1,800 ha | +28.6% |
| 2021 | 1,807 ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 1,817 ha | +0.6% |
| 2023 | 1,845 ha | +1.5% |
| 2024 | 1,836 ha | -0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,971 ha | 1,400 ha | 2,200 ha | 7 |
| 2020s | 1,821 ha | 1,800 ha | 1,845 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Burkina Faso
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.81 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1994 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 228.86 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.39 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7108 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 19.94 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 19.94 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — area harvested in Burkina Faso?
- Bananas — area harvested in Burkina Faso was 1,836 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — area harvested recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 2,200 ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest bananas — area harvested recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,400 ha in 2019.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for bananas — area harvested?
- Burkina Faso ranks 71st out of 141 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Burkina Faso 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.