Bananas — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Bananas — Yield was 13,740 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, bananas — yield in Middle Africa stood at 13,740 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 3.7% on the previous year and up 12.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 13,740 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,956 kg/ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Bananas — Yield in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,956 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,063 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1963 | 5,998 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1964 | 6,103 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1965 | 6,026 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1966 | 6,016 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1967 | 6,083 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1968 | 6,152 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1969 | 6,080 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1970 | 6,628 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1971 | 6,690 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 6,252 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1973 | 6,884 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1974 | 7,106 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1975 | 6,705 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1976 | 7,298 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1977 | 7,354 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1978 | 7,542 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1979 | 7,881 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1980 | 7,915 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1981 | 8,005 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1982 | 8,108 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1983 | 8,344 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1984 | 8,403 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1985 | 8,317 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1986 | 8,114 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1987 | 7,815 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1988 | 7,016 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1989 | 6,843 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1990 | 8,090 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 1991 | 6,966 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 1992 | 7,291 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1993 | 7,366 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1994 | 7,695 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1995 | 8,684 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 1996 | 8,448 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1997 | 7,968 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1998 | 7,595 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1999 | 6,620 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 2000 | 6,096 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2001 | 6,967 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 2002 | 7,360 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2003 | 8,086 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2004 | 8,469 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2005 | 8,853 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2006 | 9,231 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2007 | 11,824 kg/ha | +28.1% |
| 2008 | 11,725 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2009 | 12,212 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2010 | 10,218 kg/ha | -16.3% |
| 2011 | 10,884 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2012 | 11,560 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2013 | 11,506 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2014 | 12,221 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2015 | 12,494 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2016 | 12,588 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2017 | 12,573 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 12,410 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2019 | 12,565 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 12,794 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2021 | 12,911 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 13,184 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2023 | 13,247 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 13,740 kg/ha | +3.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Bananas — Yield in Middle Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | +28.1% | 9,231 kg/ha | 11,824 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,053 kg/ha | 5,956 kg/ha | 6,152 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,034 kg/ha | 6,252 kg/ha | 7,881 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,888 kg/ha | 6,843 kg/ha | 8,403 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,672 kg/ha | 6,620 kg/ha | 8,684 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,082 kg/ha | 6,096 kg/ha | 12,212 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,902 kg/ha | 10,218 kg/ha | 12,588 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,175 kg/ha | 12,794 kg/ha | 13,740 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
- 8 Nicaragua 53,312 kg/ha compare
- 8 Melanesia 16,459 kg/ha compare
- 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
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- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Yield, annual growth rate 0.167 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.1088 % change on previous year (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Middle Africa?
- Bananas — yield in Middle Africa was 13,740 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 13,740 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,956 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Middle Africa rank for bananas — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 11th out of 18 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle 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.