Bananas — Yield in Jamaica
Jamaica: Bananas — Yield was 7,638 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Bananas — Yield in Jamaica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Jamaica recorded 7,638 kg/ha for bananas — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Jamaica peaked at 9,900 kg/ha in 1968 and was at its lowest, 4,829 kg/ha, in 1962.
Jamaica ranks 101st of 134 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,390 kg/ha | 4,829 kg/ha | 9,900 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,145 kg/ha | 6,350 kg/ha | 9,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,815 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 8,438 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,022 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 8,375 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,002 kg/ha | 7,890 kg/ha | 8,160 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,541 kg/ha | 7,153 kg/ha | 7,936 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,618 kg/ha | 7,569 kg/ha | 7,638 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture share gdp 8.74 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.74 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 1.15 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.99 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 62,998 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Jamaica?
- Bananas — yield in Jamaica was 7,638 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 9,900 kg/ha in 1968.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,829 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Jamaica rank for bananas — yield?
- Jamaica ranks 101st out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.