Bananas — Area harvested in El Salvador
El Salvador: Bananas — Area harvested was 842 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Bananas — Area harvested in El Salvador, 2013–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — area harvested in El Salvador is 842 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 16.1% on the previous year and down 48.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — area harvested in El Salvador peaked at 1,677 ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 634 ha, in 2020.
El Salvador ranks 83rd 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 El Salvador, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1,677 ha | — |
| 2014 | 1,642 ha | -2.1% |
| 2015 | 1,667 ha | +1.5% |
| 2016 | 1,655 ha | -0.7% |
| 2017 | 1,508 ha | -8.9% |
| 2018 | 1,507 ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 966 ha | -35.9% |
| 2020 | 634 ha | -34.4% |
| 2021 | 701 ha | +10.6% |
| 2022 | 671 ha | -4.3% |
| 2023 | 725 ha | +8.0% |
| 2024 | 842 ha | +16.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,517 ha | 966 ha | 1,677 ha | 7 |
| 2020s | 714.6 ha | 634 ha | 842 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near El Salvador
- 80 Saudi Arabia 1,161 ha compare
- 81 Trinidad and Tobago 976 ha compare
- 82 Jordan 913 ha compare
- 84 Dominica 783 ha compare
- 85 Mauritius 759 ha compare
- 86 Brunei Darussalam 743 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 4.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — area harvested in El Salvador?
- Bananas — area harvested in El Salvador was 842 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — area harvested recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 1,677 ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest bananas — area harvested recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 634 ha in 2020.
- How does El Salvador rank for bananas — area harvested?
- El Salvador ranks 83rd out of 141 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — area harvested rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is down 48.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.