Bananas — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Bananas — Yield was 57,338 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Costa Rica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 57,338 kg/ha for bananas — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 4.1% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 61,160 kg/ha in 1989 and was at its lowest, 16,936 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Costa Rica 6th out of 134 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 20,351 kg/ha | 16,936 kg/ha | 26,935 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 34,191 kg/ha | 28,220 kg/ha | 46,921 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 49,296 kg/ha | 42,094 kg/ha | 61,160 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 43,005 kg/ha | 35,552 kg/ha | 54,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 40,841 kg/ha | 27,201 kg/ha | 47,450 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 52,602 kg/ha | 43,575 kg/ha | 59,644 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 55,003 kg/ha | 48,600 kg/ha | 59,761 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- Agriculture share gdp 3.37 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.37 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 20.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 1.04 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.63 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Costa Rica?
- Bananas — yield in Costa Rica was 57,338 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 61,160 kg/ha in 1989.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 16,936 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Costa Rica rank for bananas — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 6th out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Costa Rica 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.