Bananas — Area harvested in Ecuador
Ecuador: Bananas — Area harvested was 181,088 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Area harvested in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Ecuador recorded 181,088 ha for bananas — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.3% on the previous year and down 0.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — area harvested in Ecuador peaked at 252,571 ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 59,306 ha, in 1983.
Ecuador ranks 11th of 155 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 166,741 ha | 111,000 ha | 210,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 132,115 ha | 67,547 ha | 193,560 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 87,385 ha | 59,306 ha | 130,650 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 199,802 ha | 132,130 ha | 248,350 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 223,099 ha | 197,410 ha | 252,571 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 185,814 ha | 158,057 ha | 215,647 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 173,843 ha | 160,630 ha | 183,400 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — area harvested in Ecuador?
- Bananas — area harvested in Ecuador was 181,088 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 252,571 ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest bananas — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 59,306 ha in 1983.
- How does Ecuador rank for bananas — area harvested?
- Ecuador ranks 11th out of 155 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.