Bananas — Yield in Africa
Africa: Bananas — Yield was 13,661 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — yield in Africa is 13,661 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 3.5% on the previous year and up 32.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Africa peaked at 13,661 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,279 kg/ha, in 2001.
That places Africa 21st out of 30 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 7,130 kg/ha | 6,660 kg/ha | 7,513 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,158 kg/ha | 6,802 kg/ha | 7,602 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,456 kg/ha | 6,948 kg/ha | 7,970 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,009 kg/ha | 6,615 kg/ha | 7,224 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,841 kg/ha | 6,279 kg/ha | 9,364 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,524 kg/ha | 9,065 kg/ha | 12,419 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,163 kg/ha | 12,443 kg/ha | 13,661 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Africa
- Tomatoes — Production 26.38 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 47.50 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 2.37 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 50 kg/An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 31.26 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 2.29 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 706,446 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.67 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 15,779 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 613,627 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Africa?
- Bananas — yield in Africa was 13,661 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 13,661 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,279 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Africa rank for bananas — yield?
- Africa ranks 21st out of 30 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 32.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Bananas — Yield. 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.