Bananas — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Bananas — Yield was 11,480 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, bananas — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) stood at 11,480 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.1% on the previous year and up 21.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 11,480 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,403 kg/ha, in 2001.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Bananas — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,514 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,902 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1963 | 6,668 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1964 | 7,146 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1965 | 7,186 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1966 | 7,191 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 7,629 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1968 | 7,514 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1969 | 7,521 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1970 | 6,703 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1971 | 7,092 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1972 | 6,797 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1973 | 7,380 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1974 | 7,149 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1975 | 7,024 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1976 | 6,872 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1977 | 6,896 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1978 | 6,829 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1979 | 6,992 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1980 | 6,617 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1981 | 7,367 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1982 | 7,001 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1983 | 6,932 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1984 | 6,508 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1985 | 6,869 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1986 | 6,898 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1987 | 7,096 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1988 | 6,272 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1989 | 6,354 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1990 | 6,225 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1991 | 6,118 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1992 | 6,202 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1993 | 6,232 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 6,179 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1995 | 6,372 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 6,212 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1997 | 5,715 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1998 | 5,427 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1999 | 6,018 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 2000 | 5,622 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2001 | 5,403 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2002 | 7,002 kg/ha | +29.6% |
| 2003 | 6,672 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2004 | 7,548 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 2005 | 7,640 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2006 | 7,814 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2007 | 8,347 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2008 | 7,922 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2009 | 8,482 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2010 | 8,472 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 8,384 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2012 | 8,818 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2013 | 9,494 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2014 | 9,474 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 9,883 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2016 | 10,374 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2017 | 10,043 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2018 | 11,170 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 2019 | 11,086 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2020 | 10,657 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2021 | 11,018 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2022 | 11,307 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2023 | 11,243 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2024 | 11,480 kg/ha | +2.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Bananas — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | +29.6% | 5,403 kg/ha | 7,002 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,141 kg/ha | 6,514 kg/ha | 7,629 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,973 kg/ha | 6,703 kg/ha | 7,380 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,791 kg/ha | 6,272 kg/ha | 7,367 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,070 kg/ha | 5,427 kg/ha | 6,372 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,245 kg/ha | 5,403 kg/ha | 8,482 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,720 kg/ha | 8,384 kg/ha | 11,170 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,141 kg/ha | 10,657 kg/ha | 11,480 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- 9 Puerto Rico 52,205 kg/ha compare
- 9 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 15,135 kg/ha compare
- 10 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 15,036 kg/ha compare
- 10 Guatemala 49,726 kg/ha compare
- 11 Republic of Korea 49,628 kg/ha compare
- 12 Spain 48,096 kg/ha compare
- 13 Egypt 43,612 kg/ha compare
- 13 United Republic of Tanzania 10,337 kg/ha compare
- 14 Ecuador 41,889 kg/ha compare
- 14 Polynesia 6,353 kg/ha compare
- 15 Micronesia (Federated States of) 5,322 kg/ha compare
- 15 Zimbabwe 40,000 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Bananas — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 11,480 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 11,480 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,403 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for bananas — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 12th out of 18 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.