Bananas — Yield in Northern America
Northern America: Bananas — Yield was 10,659 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Northern America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Northern America recorded 10,659 kg/ha for bananas — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.9% on the previous year and down 43.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Northern America peaked at 23,879 kg/ha in 2005 and was at its lowest, 5,829 kg/ha, in 1983.
That places Northern America 24th out of 26 groups 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 Northern America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,545 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,714 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1963 | 9,198 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1964 | 11,467 kg/ha | +24.7% |
| 1965 | 8,458 kg/ha | -26.2% |
| 1966 | 9,753 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 1967 | 8,978 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1968 | 7,582 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 1969 | 7,444 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1970 | 8,234 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 1971 | 7,276 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1972 | 7,948 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1973 | 11,210 kg/ha | +41.0% |
| 1974 | 12,122 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1975 | 11,028 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1976 | 10,148 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1977 | 11,798 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 1978 | 11,261 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1979 | 10,160 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1980 | 9,087 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1981 | 10,462 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1982 | 9,069 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 1983 | 5,829 kg/ha | -35.7% |
| 1984 | 11,543 kg/ha | +98.0% |
| 1985 | 10,882 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1986 | 11,083 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1987 | 11,940 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1988 | 13,857 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 1989 | 13,432 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1990 | 14,239 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1991 | 14,364 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1992 | 15,454 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1993 | 15,923 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1994 | 17,584 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1995 | 16,573 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1996 | 15,206 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1997 | 16,172 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1998 | 16,565 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1999 | 19,405 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2000 | 22,257 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 2001 | 21,063 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2002 | 16,859 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 2003 | 18,775 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2004 | 18,593 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2005 | 23,879 kg/ha | +28.4% |
| 2006 | 19,037 kg/ha | -20.3% |
| 2007 | 22,076 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 2008 | 17,730 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 2009 | 18,854 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2010 | 18,144 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2011 | 19,489 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2012 | 18,184 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2013 | 18,192 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 18,770 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2015 | 16,199 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 2016 | 11,520 kg/ha | -28.9% |
| 2017 | 7,947 kg/ha | -31.0% |
| 2018 | 11,733 kg/ha | +47.6% |
| 2019 | 9,907 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 2020 | 10,262 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2021 | 11,037 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2022 | 10,391 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2023 | 10,559 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2024 | 10,659 kg/ha | +0.9% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Bananas — Yield in Northern America 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | +98.0% | 5,829 kg/ha | 11,543 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,238 kg/ha | 7,444 kg/ha | 11,467 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,118 kg/ha | 7,276 kg/ha | 12,122 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,718 kg/ha | 5,829 kg/ha | 13,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,149 kg/ha | 14,239 kg/ha | 19,405 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,912 kg/ha | 16,859 kg/ha | 23,879 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,009 kg/ha | 7,947 kg/ha | 19,489 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,581 kg/ha | 10,262 kg/ha | 11,037 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
- 21 Palestine 36,732 kg/ha compare
- 22 Dominican Republic 36,439 kg/ha compare
- 23 Martinique 35,215 kg/ha compare
- 24 Lebanon 33,833 kg/ha compare
- 25 Guyana 33,810 kg/ha compare
- 26 Mexico 30,862 kg/ha compare
- 27 Philippines 30,285 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Northern America?
- Bananas — yield in Northern America was 10,659 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 23,879 kg/ha in 2005.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,829 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Northern America rank for bananas — yield?
- Northern America ranks 24th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 43.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern America 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.