Bananas — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Bananas — Yield was 11,649 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, bananas — yield in Eastern Africa stood at 11,649 kg/ha.
The figure is up 3.8% on the previous year and up 29.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 11,887 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 5,304 kg/ha, in 2001.
That places Eastern Africa 23rd out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Bananas — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,528 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,880 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1963 | 6,629 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1964 | 7,050 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1965 | 7,193 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1966 | 6,916 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1967 | 7,541 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1968 | 7,470 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1969 | 7,488 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1970 | 6,548 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 1971 | 7,012 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1972 | 6,721 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1973 | 7,411 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1974 | 7,078 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1975 | 6,785 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1976 | 6,526 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1977 | 6,615 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1978 | 6,527 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1979 | 7,275 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1980 | 6,775 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1981 | 7,696 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1982 | 7,206 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1983 | 7,146 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1984 | 6,594 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1985 | 7,048 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1986 | 6,971 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1987 | 7,282 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1988 | 6,389 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1989 | 6,467 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1990 | 6,287 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1991 | 6,422 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1992 | 6,527 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1993 | 6,420 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1994 | 6,342 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1995 | 6,132 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1996 | 6,021 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1997 | 5,834 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1998 | 5,496 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1999 | 6,232 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 2000 | 5,665 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2001 | 5,304 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2002 | 6,996 kg/ha | +31.9% |
| 2003 | 6,357 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2004 | 7,234 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 2005 | 7,232 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2006 | 7,465 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2007 | 7,804 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2008 | 7,725 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2009 | 8,400 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2010 | 8,563 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2011 | 7,930 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 2012 | 8,152 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2013 | 9,145 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2014 | 9,002 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2015 | 9,029 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 9,620 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2017 | 8,915 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2018 | 10,840 kg/ha | +21.6% |
| 2019 | 11,128 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2020 | 10,644 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2021 | 11,525 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2022 | 11,887 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2023 | 11,227 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2024 | 11,649 kg/ha | +3.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,077 kg/ha | 6,528 kg/ha | 7,541 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,850 kg/ha | 6,526 kg/ha | 7,411 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,957 kg/ha | 6,389 kg/ha | 7,696 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,171 kg/ha | 5,496 kg/ha | 6,527 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,018 kg/ha | 5,304 kg/ha | 8,400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,232 kg/ha | 7,930 kg/ha | 11,128 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,386 kg/ha | 10,644 kg/ha | 11,887 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Bananas — yield in Eastern Africa was 11,649 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 11,887 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,304 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for bananas — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 23rd out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 29.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern 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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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.