Bananas — Yield in Zambia
Zambia: Bananas — Yield was 4,330 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Zambia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Zambia recorded 4,330 kg/ha for bananas — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 2.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Zambia peaked at 4,455 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 2,500 kg/ha, in 1998.
That places Zambia 120th out of 134 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,130 kg/ha | 3,125 kg/ha | 3,167 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,212 kg/ha | 3,172 kg/ha | 3,258 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,204 kg/ha | 3,125 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,106 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,250 kg/ha | 3,181 kg/ha | 3,450 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,125 kg/ha | 3,429 kg/ha | 4,358 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,363 kg/ha | 4,310 kg/ha | 4,455 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zambia
- Agriculture share gdp 4.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 54.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.9% (2025)
- Rural population 11.85 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.19 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 683.84 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Zambia?
- Bananas — yield in Zambia was 4,330 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Zambia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,455 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Zambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,500 kg/ha in 1998.
- How does Zambia rank for bananas — yield?
- Zambia ranks 120th out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Zambia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zambia 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.