Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Central America
Central America: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 58,098 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Central America, 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 Central America is 58,098 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 7.4% on the previous year and up 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Central America peaked at 71,450 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 20,757 ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Central America, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 20,757 ha | — |
| 1962 | 21,207 ha | +2.2% |
| 1963 | 22,651 ha | +6.8% |
| 1964 | 23,878 ha | +5.4% |
| 1965 | 22,298 ha | -6.6% |
| 1966 | 21,740 ha | -2.5% |
| 1967 | 23,275 ha | +7.1% |
| 1968 | 22,821 ha | -2.0% |
| 1969 | 23,660 ha | +3.7% |
| 1970 | 24,899 ha | +5.2% |
| 1971 | 25,330 ha | +1.7% |
| 1972 | 26,447 ha | +4.4% |
| 1973 | 27,666 ha | +4.6% |
| 1974 | 27,629 ha | -0.1% |
| 1975 | 27,995 ha | +1.3% |
| 1976 | 29,072 ha | +3.8% |
| 1977 | 31,272 ha | +7.6% |
| 1978 | 31,781 ha | +1.6% |
| 1979 | 31,584 ha | -0.6% |
| 1980 | 29,742 ha | -5.8% |
| 1981 | 28,600 ha | -3.8% |
| 1982 | 36,600 ha | +28.0% |
| 1983 | 37,140 ha | +1.5% |
| 1984 | 29,975 ha | -19.3% |
| 1985 | 33,231 ha | +10.9% |
| 1986 | 33,630 ha | +1.2% |
| 1987 | 33,720 ha | +0.3% |
| 1988 | 36,620 ha | +8.6% |
| 1989 | 34,198 ha | -6.6% |
| 1990 | 40,102 ha | +17.3% |
| 1991 | 44,062 ha | +9.9% |
| 1992 | 45,632 ha | +3.6% |
| 1993 | 45,854 ha | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 43,300 ha | -5.6% |
| 1995 | 44,225 ha | +2.1% |
| 1996 | 46,065 ha | +4.2% |
| 1997 | 43,730 ha | -5.1% |
| 1998 | 44,236 ha | +1.2% |
| 1999 | 39,159 ha | -11.5% |
| 2000 | 37,116 ha | -5.2% |
| 2001 | 43,279 ha | +16.6% |
| 2002 | 47,105 ha | +8.8% |
| 2003 | 46,936 ha | -0.4% |
| 2004 | 46,103 ha | -1.8% |
| 2005 | 43,720 ha | -5.2% |
| 2006 | 49,056 ha | +12.2% |
| 2007 | 47,560 ha | -3.0% |
| 2008 | 45,387 ha | -4.6% |
| 2009 | 45,111 ha | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 45,256 ha | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 46,284 ha | +2.3% |
| 2012 | 48,715 ha | +5.3% |
| 2013 | 50,925 ha | +4.5% |
| 2014 | 57,804 ha | +13.5% |
| 2015 | 56,854 ha | -1.6% |
| 2016 | 61,570 ha | +8.3% |
| 2017 | 64,102 ha | +4.1% |
| 2018 | 64,300 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 59,158 ha | -8.0% |
| 2020 | 57,754 ha | -2.4% |
| 2021 | 71,450 ha | +23.7% |
| 2022 | 63,350 ha | -11.3% |
| 2023 | 62,726 ha | -1.0% |
| 2024 | 58,098 ha | -7.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22,476 ha | 20,757 ha | 23,878 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 28,368 ha | 24,899 ha | 31,781 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 33,346 ha | 28,600 ha | 37,140 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 43,636 ha | 39,159 ha | 46,065 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 45,137 ha | 37,116 ha | 49,056 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 55,497 ha | 45,256 ha | 64,300 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 62,676 ha | 57,754 ha | 71,450 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Central America?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Central America was 58,098 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 Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 71,450 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 20,757 ha in 1961.
- How does Central America rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Central America ranks 13th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America 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.