Bananas — Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Bananas — Yield was 19,346 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Bananas — Yield in Malawi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 19,346 kg/ha for bananas — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 2.1% on the previous year and down 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Malawi peaked at 22,879 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 3,000 kg/ha, in 1965.
Malawi ranks 58th of 134 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,210 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,643 kg/ha | 3,308 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,428 kg/ha | 4,114 kg/ha | 4,731 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,493 kg/ha | 4,944 kg/ha | 17,752 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 20,024 kg/ha | 19,375 kg/ha | 20,710 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,064 kg/ha | 20,020 kg/ha | 20,079 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,203 kg/ha | 18,409 kg/ha | 22,879 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Malawi?
- Bananas — yield in Malawi was 19,346 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 22,879 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,000 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Malawi rank for bananas — yield?
- Malawi ranks 58th out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Malawi 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.