Bananas — Yield in South America
South America: Bananas — Yield was 20,640 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — yield in South America is 20,640 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.7% on the previous year and up 7.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in South America peaked at 20,754 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 14,999 kg/ha, in 1987.
South America ranks 15th of 30 groups 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 | 17,006 kg/ha | 15,574 kg/ha | 17,898 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 17,421 kg/ha | 15,186 kg/ha | 19,909 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 15,889 kg/ha | 14,999 kg/ha | 17,149 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,930 kg/ha | 15,480 kg/ha | 17,516 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,063 kg/ha | 15,314 kg/ha | 20,754 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,367 kg/ha | 18,298 kg/ha | 20,068 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,924 kg/ha | 19,315 kg/ha | 20,640 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
More agriculture & rural data for South America
- Tomatoes — Production 8.33 million t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 75.21 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.00 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 747,608 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 401,333 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 20.74 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 62,811 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 132,585 ha (2024)
- Milk, Total — Production 69.74 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,181 g/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in South America?
- Bananas — yield in South America was 20,640 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 20,754 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,999 kg/ha in 1987.
- How does South America rank for bananas — yield?
- South America ranks 15th out of 30 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South 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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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.