Bananas — Yield in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Bananas — Yield was 16,656 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Papua New Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — yield in Papua New Guinea is 16,656 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and down 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Papua New Guinea peaked at 17,422 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 12,059 kg/ha, in 1975.
Papua New Guinea ranks 66th of 134 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,626 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 13,225 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,612 kg/ha | 12,059 kg/ha | 13,609 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,026 kg/ha | 12,228 kg/ha | 14,031 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,177 kg/ha | 14,101 kg/ha | 14,286 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,179 kg/ha | 14,000 kg/ha | 14,603 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,340 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 17,422 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,504 kg/ha | 16,217 kg/ha | 16,656 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Papua New Guinea
- Agriculture share gdp 17.02 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 17.02 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
- Rural population 84.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 9.06 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 17.0% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.24 billion current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.27 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Papua New Guinea?
- Bananas — yield in Papua New Guinea was 16,656 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 17,422 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 12,059 kg/ha in 1975.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for bananas — yield?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 66th out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.