Bananas — Yield in Australia
Australia: Bananas — Yield was 29,189 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Australia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, bananas — yield in Australia stood at 29,189 kg/ha.
The figure is up 1.6% on the previous year and up 38.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Australia peaked at 30,535 kg/ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 11,188 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Australia 33rd out of 134 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 12,686 kg/ha | 11,188 kg/ha | 13,971 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 14,576 kg/ha | 12,173 kg/ha | 17,227 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 18,786 kg/ha | 16,354 kg/ha | 24,652 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 22,662 kg/ha | 19,743 kg/ha | 25,130 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 22,733 kg/ha | 16,779 kg/ha | 30,535 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 24,016 kg/ha | 18,109 kg/ha | 29,970 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 28,901 kg/ha | 27,805 kg/ha | 30,393 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia
- 30 Philippines 30,285 kg/ha compare
- 31 Saudi Arabia 29,784 kg/ha compare
- 32 Saint Lucia 29,738 kg/ha compare
- 33 Australia and New Zealand 29,189 kg/ha compare
- 35 Belize 28,848 kg/ha compare
- 36 Sudan (former) 28,596 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture share gdp 2.27 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.27 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 12.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 3.39 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 40.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 368,735 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Australia?
- Bananas — yield in Australia was 29,189 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 30,535 kg/ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 11,188 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Australia rank for bananas — yield?
- Australia ranks 33rd out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 38.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia 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.