Bananas — Yield in Mozambique
Mozambique: Bananas — Yield was 5,634 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Mozambique, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — yield in Mozambique is 5,634 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.2% on the previous year and down 29.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Mozambique peaked at 8,933 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 3,648 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Mozambique 97th out of 120 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Bananas — Yield in Mozambique, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,030 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,648 kg/ha | -27.5% |
| 1963 | 6,110 kg/ha | +67.5% |
| 1964 | 6,000 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1965 | 5,000 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 1966 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 4,500 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1969 | 6,463 kg/ha | +43.6% |
| 1970 | 5,662 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 1971 | 5,954 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1972 | 6,000 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1973 | 6,091 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1974 | 6,182 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1975 | 5,454 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1976 | 5,909 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1977 | 6,182 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1978 | 5,909 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1979 | 5,909 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 5,909 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 6,364 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1982 | 6,364 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 6,364 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 6,364 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 6,364 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 6,818 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1987 | 6,667 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1988 | 6,833 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1989 | 7,000 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1990 | 6,638 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1991 | 6,133 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1992 | 6,205 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 6,278 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1994 | 6,315 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 6,622 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1996 | 6,538 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1997 | 6,370 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1998 | 6,452 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 6,526 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2000 | 6,429 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2001 | 6,064 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2002 | 6,429 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2003 | 5,730 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2004 | 7,172 kg/ha | +25.2% |
| 2005 | 8,875 kg/ha | +23.7% |
| 2006 | 8,750 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2007 | 8,340 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2008 | 7,656 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2009 | 7,000 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2010 | 7,125 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2011 | 7,570 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2012 | 7,581 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 7,600 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 7,949 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2015 | 8,933 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2016 | 6,900 kg/ha | -22.8% |
| 2017 | 8,583 kg/ha | +24.4% |
| 2018 | 8,101 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2019 | 7,592 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2020 | 7,328 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2021 | 6,900 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2022 | 6,999 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2023 | 5,566 kg/ha | -20.5% |
| 2024 | 5,634 kg/ha | +1.2% |
Mozambique compared with similar countries
- Mozambique's 5,634 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 12,046 kg/ha, 47% of the median. (15 countries reporting)
- Mozambique's 5,634 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 12,536 kg/ha, 45% of the median. (34 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Bananas — Yield in Mozambique 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | +67.5% | 3,648 kg/ha | 6,110 kg/ha |
| 1969 | +43.6% | 4,500 kg/ha | 6,463 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,195 kg/ha | 3,648 kg/ha | 6,463 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,925 kg/ha | 5,454 kg/ha | 6,182 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,505 kg/ha | 5,909 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,408 kg/ha | 6,133 kg/ha | 6,638 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,245 kg/ha | 5,730 kg/ha | 8,875 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,793 kg/ha | 6,900 kg/ha | 8,933 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,485 kg/ha | 5,566 kg/ha | 7,328 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mozambique
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.2557 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2557 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 160.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.63 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6279 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 25.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 25.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Mozambique?
- Bananas — yield in Mozambique was 5,634 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The highest recorded value was 8,933 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,648 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Mozambique rank for bananas — yield?
- Mozambique ranks 97th out of 120 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Mozambique?
- Over the last ten years it is down 29.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mozambique 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.