Bananas — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Bananas — Area harvested was 79,382 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Area harvested in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, bananas — area harvested in Melanesia stood at 79,382 ha.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 79,922 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 27,334 ha, in 1961.
Melanesia ranks 22nd of 155 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 29,556 ha | 27,334 ha | 32,061 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 34,589 ha | 31,737 ha | 36,487 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 39,458 ha | 36,588 ha | 43,262 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 51,266 ha | 44,220 ha | 58,005 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 65,744 ha | 59,681 ha | 72,713 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 76,394 ha | 72,659 ha | 79,028 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 79,011 ha | 77,917 ha | 79,922 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 6,175 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 2.34 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Bananas — area harvested in Melanesia was 79,382 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 79,922 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest bananas — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 27,334 ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for bananas — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 22nd out of 155 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.