Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Cameroon
Cameroon: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 539,375 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Cameroon recorded 539,375 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 2.9% on the previous year and up 78.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Cameroon peaked at 539,375 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 95,000 ha, in 1961.
Cameroon ranks 2nd of 50 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 95,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 120,000 ha | +26.3% |
| 1963 | 120,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 166,000 ha | +38.3% |
| 1965 | 106,000 ha | -36.1% |
| 1966 | 112,000 ha | +5.7% |
| 1967 | 140,638 ha | +25.6% |
| 1968 | 156,873 ha | +11.5% |
| 1969 | 150,640 ha | -4.0% |
| 1970 | 171,461 ha | +13.8% |
| 1971 | 184,688 ha | +7.7% |
| 1972 | 167,516 ha | -9.3% |
| 1973 | 187,192 ha | +11.7% |
| 1974 | 206,525 ha | +10.3% |
| 1975 | 190,000 ha | -8.0% |
| 1976 | 160,000 ha | -15.8% |
| 1977 | 170,000 ha | +6.2% |
| 1978 | 190,000 ha | +11.8% |
| 1979 | 190,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 195,000 ha | +2.6% |
| 1981 | 195,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 192,000 ha | -1.5% |
| 1983 | 462,478 ha | +140.9% |
| 1984 | 370,000 ha | -20.0% |
| 1985 | 402,000 ha | +8.6% |
| 1986 | 430,000 ha | +7.0% |
| 1987 | 197,000 ha | -54.2% |
| 1988 | 170,000 ha | -13.7% |
| 1989 | 200,000 ha | +17.6% |
| 1990 | 170,000 ha | -15.0% |
| 1991 | 180,000 ha | +5.9% |
| 1992 | 190,000 ha | +5.6% |
| 1993 | 200,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 1994 | 220,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 1995 | 230,000 ha | +4.5% |
| 1996 | 232,000 ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 235,000 ha | +1.3% |
| 1998 | 200,000 ha | -14.9% |
| 1999 | 189,333 ha | -5.3% |
| 2000 | 189,773 ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 191,247 ha | +0.8% |
| 2002 | 232,483 ha | +21.6% |
| 2003 | 239,458 ha | +3.0% |
| 2004 | 246,642 ha | +3.0% |
| 2005 | 252,453 ha | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 272,406 ha | +7.9% |
| 2007 | 193,836 ha | -28.8% |
| 2008 | 208,387 ha | +7.5% |
| 2009 | 230,545 ha | +10.6% |
| 2010 | 260,301 ha | +12.9% |
| 2011 | 282,561 ha | +8.6% |
| 2012 | 328,890 ha | +16.4% |
| 2013 | 309,107 ha | -6.0% |
| 2014 | 301,645 ha | -2.4% |
| 2015 | 313,113 ha | +3.8% |
| 2016 | 431,532 ha | +37.8% |
| 2017 | 451,483 ha | +4.6% |
| 2018 | 462,329 ha | +2.4% |
| 2019 | 450,261 ha | -2.6% |
| 2020 | 506,440 ha | +12.5% |
| 2021 | 517,474 ha | +2.2% |
| 2022 | 502,506 ha | -2.9% |
| 2023 | 524,009 ha | +4.3% |
| 2024 | 539,375 ha | +2.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 129,683 ha | 95,000 ha | 166,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 181,738 ha | 160,000 ha | 206,525 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 281,348 ha | 170,000 ha | 462,478 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 204,633 ha | 170,000 ha | 235,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 225,723 ha | 189,773 ha | 272,406 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 359,122 ha | 260,301 ha | 462,329 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 517,961 ha | 502,506 ha | 539,375 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Cameroon?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Cameroon was 539,375 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 Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 539,375 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 95,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Cameroon rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Cameroon ranks 2nd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 78.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.
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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.