Bananas — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Bananas — Yield was 40,000 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Bananas — Yield in Zimbabwe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bananas — yield in Zimbabwe is 40,000 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.6% on the previous year and up 47.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 40,000 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,348 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Zimbabwe 17th out of 134 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,516 kg/ha | 4,348 kg/ha | 4,667 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,921 kg/ha | 4,625 kg/ha | 5,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,059 kg/ha | 4,960 kg/ha | 5,172 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,946 kg/ha | 4,667 kg/ha | 5,247 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,670 kg/ha | 4,737 kg/ha | 13,568 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,253 kg/ha | 16,118 kg/ha | 35,116 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 38,200 kg/ha | 36,000 kg/ha | 40,000 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture share gdp 9.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 59.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 10.09 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.85 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 325,400 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Bananas — yield in Zimbabwe was 40,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 40,000 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,348 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for bananas — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 17th out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 47.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.