Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 11,719 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Bangladesh, 2013–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Bangladesh stood at 11,719 ha.
That represents a change of down 1.0% on the previous year and up 13.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Bangladesh peaked at 11,840 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 10,311 ha, in 2013.
Bangladesh ranks 22nd of 50 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Bangladesh, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10,311 ha | — |
| 2014 | 10,327 ha | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 10,604 ha | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 10,718 ha | +1.1% |
| 2017 | 11,167 ha | +4.2% |
| 2018 | 11,351 ha | +1.6% |
| 2019 | 11,273 ha | -0.7% |
| 2020 | 11,823 ha | +4.9% |
| 2021 | 11,700 ha | -1.0% |
| 2022 | 11,600 ha | -0.9% |
| 2023 | 11,840 ha | +2.1% |
| 2024 | 11,719 ha | -1.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 10,822 ha | 10,311 ha | 11,351 ha | 7 |
| 2020s | 11,736 ha | 11,600 ha | 11,840 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Bangladesh
More agriculture & rural data for Bangladesh
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.73 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1142 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 296.72 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6676 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 11.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 11.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 6.0% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Bangladesh?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Bangladesh was 11,719 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Bangladesh?
- The highest recorded value was 11,840 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Bangladesh?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,311 ha in 2013.
- How does Bangladesh rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Bangladesh ranks 22nd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Bangladesh?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bangladesh data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 12 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.