Bananas — Yield in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Bananas — Yield was 12,046 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Guinea-Bissau, 1985–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — yield in Guinea-Bissau is 12,046 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 12,500 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 5,000 kg/ha, in 1985.
Guinea-Bissau ranks 78th of 120 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 40 years of available data.
Bananas — Yield in Guinea-Bissau, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1986 | 6,000 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1987 | 8,000 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 1988 | 9,000 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1989 | 9,600 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1990 | 10,000 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1991 | 10,417 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1992 | 10,667 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1993 | 10,227 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1994 | 10,244 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 9,524 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 1996 | 9,732 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1997 | 9,599 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1998 | 9,324 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1999 | 9,830 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2000 | 9,826 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2001 | 9,773 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2002 | 9,822 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 9,556 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2004 | 9,942 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2005 | 10,056 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2006 | 10,000 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2007 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 10,943 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2009 | 10,877 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 11,164 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2011 | 11,479 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2012 | 12,500 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2013 | 11,946 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2014 | 12,079 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 12,374 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2016 | 11,652 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2017 | 11,824 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 11,935 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2019 | 12,045 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 12,092 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 12,025 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2022 | 12,054 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 12,057 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 12,046 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Guinea-Bissau compared with similar countries
- Guinea-Bissau's 12,046 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 12,046 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (15 countries reporting)
- Guinea-Bissau's 12,046 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 12,536 kg/ha, 96% of the median. (34 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Bananas — Yield in Guinea-Bissau changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | +33.3% | 6,000 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7,520 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 9,600 kg/ha | 5 |
| 1990s | 9,956 kg/ha | 9,324 kg/ha | 10,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,079 kg/ha | 9,556 kg/ha | 10,943 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,900 kg/ha | 11,164 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,055 kg/ha | 12,025 kg/ha | 12,092 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guinea-Bissau
More agriculture & rural data for Guinea-Bissau
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.4063 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 456.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5335 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 40.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 40.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 31.5% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Guinea-Bissau?
- Bananas — yield in Guinea-Bissau was 12,046 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 12,500 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 kg/ha in 1985.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for bananas — yield?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 78th out of 120 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau 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.