Bananas — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Bananas — Yield was 14,574 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, bananas — yield in Western Africa stood at 14,574 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.4% on the previous year and up 93.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Western Africa peaked at 14,574 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,716 kg/ha, in 2001.
That places Western Africa 19th out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Bananas — Yield in Western Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,527 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,383 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1963 | 8,525 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1964 | 8,414 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1965 | 8,584 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1966 | 8,930 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1967 | 8,461 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1968 | 8,938 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1969 | 8,738 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1970 | 8,058 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1971 | 8,217 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1972 | 8,942 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1973 | 8,148 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1974 | 8,789 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1975 | 8,583 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1976 | 7,690 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1977 | 8,329 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1978 | 9,227 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1979 | 8,288 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1980 | 8,662 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1981 | 8,670 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1982 | 8,475 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1983 | 8,617 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1984 | 8,994 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1985 | 9,266 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1986 | 9,263 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1987 | 9,644 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1988 | 9,266 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1989 | 9,143 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1990 | 9,005 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1991 | 7,751 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 1992 | 7,720 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1993 | 7,513 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1994 | 7,202 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1995 | 7,022 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1996 | 7,142 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1997 | 7,183 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 7,339 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1999 | 5,732 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 2000 | 5,872 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2001 | 5,716 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2002 | 5,806 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2003 | 5,979 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2004 | 6,295 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2005 | 6,469 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2006 | 6,894 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2007 | 7,090 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2008 | 6,544 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2009 | 6,741 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2010 | 6,889 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2011 | 7,053 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2012 | 7,186 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2013 | 7,441 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2014 | 7,534 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2015 | 8,504 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2016 | 9,050 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2017 | 9,587 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2018 | 10,066 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2019 | 11,218 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2020 | 12,271 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2021 | 13,949 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2022 | 12,954 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2023 | 13,830 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2024 | 14,574 kg/ha | +5.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,500 kg/ha | 7,527 kg/ha | 8,938 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,427 kg/ha | 7,690 kg/ha | 9,227 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,000 kg/ha | 8,475 kg/ha | 9,644 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,361 kg/ha | 5,732 kg/ha | 9,005 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,341 kg/ha | 5,716 kg/ha | 7,090 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,453 kg/ha | 6,889 kg/ha | 11,218 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,516 kg/ha | 12,271 kg/ha | 14,574 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
- 16 India 39,658 kg/ha compare
- 16 Caribbean 18,031 kg/ha compare
- 16 Micronesia 5,200 kg/ha compare
- 17 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3,756 kg/ha compare
- 17 Honduras 39,153 kg/ha compare
- 18 Cabo Verde 16,262 kg/ha compare
- 18 Morocco 38,172 kg/ha compare
- 18 Timor-Leste 600.4 kg/ha compare
- 19 China, mainland 37,923 kg/ha compare
- 20 China 37,177 kg/ha compare
- 21 Palestine 36,732 kg/ha compare
- 22 Dominican Republic 36,439 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Western Africa
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.9 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -2.77 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 2.75 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.0113 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 5.56 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 3.8 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Western Africa?
- Bananas — yield in Western Africa was 14,574 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 14,574 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,716 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Western Africa rank for bananas — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 19th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 93.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western 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.