Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Caribbean
Caribbean: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 221,674 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Caribbean is 221,674 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 14.3% on the previous year and up 50.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Caribbean peaked at 221,674 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 99,430 ha, in 1968.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 103,791 ha | — |
| 1962 | 103,920 ha | +0.1% |
| 1963 | 106,177 ha | +2.2% |
| 1964 | 106,972 ha | +0.7% |
| 1965 | 108,050 ha | +1.0% |
| 1966 | 110,226 ha | +2.0% |
| 1967 | 102,682 ha | -6.8% |
| 1968 | 99,430 ha | -3.2% |
| 1969 | 108,159 ha | +8.8% |
| 1970 | 112,895 ha | +4.4% |
| 1971 | 112,712 ha | -0.2% |
| 1972 | 113,775 ha | +0.9% |
| 1973 | 116,886 ha | +2.7% |
| 1974 | 116,159 ha | -0.6% |
| 1975 | 112,800 ha | -2.9% |
| 1976 | 117,016 ha | +3.7% |
| 1977 | 118,238 ha | +1.0% |
| 1978 | 123,258 ha | +4.2% |
| 1979 | 128,765 ha | +4.5% |
| 1980 | 128,466 ha | -0.2% |
| 1981 | 135,197 ha | +5.2% |
| 1982 | 135,310 ha | +0.1% |
| 1983 | 140,522 ha | +3.9% |
| 1984 | 143,474 ha | +2.1% |
| 1985 | 140,939 ha | -1.8% |
| 1986 | 146,729 ha | +4.1% |
| 1987 | 142,570 ha | -2.8% |
| 1988 | 143,930 ha | +1.0% |
| 1989 | 145,580 ha | +1.1% |
| 1990 | 116,951 ha | -19.7% |
| 1991 | 123,880 ha | +5.9% |
| 1992 | 155,156 ha | +25.2% |
| 1993 | 149,120 ha | -3.9% |
| 1994 | 161,647 ha | +8.4% |
| 1995 | 155,996 ha | -3.5% |
| 1996 | 162,452 ha | +4.1% |
| 1997 | 169,854 ha | +4.6% |
| 1998 | 159,047 ha | -6.4% |
| 1999 | 145,446 ha | -8.6% |
| 2000 | 169,425 ha | +16.5% |
| 2001 | 174,894 ha | +3.2% |
| 2002 | 177,433 ha | +1.5% |
| 2003 | 191,508 ha | +7.9% |
| 2004 | 181,155 ha | -5.4% |
| 2005 | 168,502 ha | -7.0% |
| 2006 | 170,257 ha | +1.0% |
| 2007 | 166,683 ha | -2.1% |
| 2008 | 136,936 ha | -17.8% |
| 2009 | 162,680 ha | +18.8% |
| 2010 | 179,487 ha | +10.3% |
| 2011 | 160,569 ha | -10.5% |
| 2012 | 161,696 ha | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 150,074 ha | -7.2% |
| 2014 | 146,931 ha | -2.1% |
| 2015 | 151,729 ha | +3.3% |
| 2016 | 159,752 ha | +5.3% |
| 2017 | 160,823 ha | +0.7% |
| 2018 | 162,899 ha | +1.3% |
| 2019 | 167,325 ha | +2.7% |
| 2020 | 154,256 ha | -7.8% |
| 2021 | 166,019 ha | +7.6% |
| 2022 | 188,938 ha | +13.8% |
| 2023 | 193,939 ha | +2.6% |
| 2024 | 221,674 ha | +14.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 105,490 ha | 99,430 ha | 110,226 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 117,250 ha | 112,712 ha | 128,765 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 140,272 ha | 128,466 ha | 146,729 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 149,955 ha | 116,951 ha | 169,854 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 169,947 ha | 136,936 ha | 191,508 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 160,128 ha | 146,931 ha | 179,487 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 184,965 ha | 154,256 ha | 221,674 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Caribbean?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Caribbean was 221,674 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 Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 221,674 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 99,430 ha in 1968.
- How does Caribbean rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Caribbean ranks 12th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 50.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.