Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Dominica
Dominica: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 730 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Dominica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Dominica recorded 730 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 6.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Dominica peaked at 866 ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 0 ha, in 1961.
That places Dominica 38th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Dominica, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 0 ha | — |
| 1962 | 0 ha | — |
| 1963 | 0 ha | — |
| 1964 | 0 ha | — |
| 1965 | 0 ha | — |
| 1966 | 0 ha | — |
| 1967 | 0 ha | — |
| 1968 | 0 ha | — |
| 1969 | 0 ha | — |
| 1970 | 0 ha | — |
| 1971 | 0 ha | — |
| 1972 | 0 ha | — |
| 1973 | 0 ha | — |
| 1974 | 0 ha | — |
| 1975 | 0 ha | — |
| 1976 | 350 ha | — |
| 1977 | 400 ha | +14.3% |
| 1978 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 300 ha | -25.0% |
| 1980 | 200 ha | -33.3% |
| 1981 | 200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 210 ha | +5.0% |
| 1983 | 230 ha | +9.5% |
| 1984 | 230 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 230 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 240 ha | +4.3% |
| 1987 | 250 ha | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 600 ha | +140.0% |
| 1989 | 600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 538 ha | -10.3% |
| 1991 | 638 ha | +18.6% |
| 1992 | 660 ha | +3.4% |
| 1993 | 700 ha | +6.1% |
| 1994 | 638 ha | -8.9% |
| 1995 | 639 ha | +0.2% |
| 1996 | 634 ha | -0.8% |
| 1997 | 634 ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 638 ha | +0.6% |
| 1999 | 639 ha | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 677 ha | +5.9% |
| 2001 | 641 ha | -5.3% |
| 2002 | 633 ha | -1.2% |
| 2003 | 640 ha | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 654 ha | +2.2% |
| 2005 | 619 ha | -5.4% |
| 2006 | 653 ha | +5.5% |
| 2007 | 541 ha | -17.2% |
| 2008 | 633 ha | +17.0% |
| 2009 | 866 ha | +36.8% |
| 2010 | 689 ha | -20.4% |
| 2011 | 785 ha | +13.9% |
| 2012 | 723 ha | -7.9% |
| 2013 | 710 ha | -1.8% |
| 2014 | 688 ha | -3.1% |
| 2015 | 715 ha | +3.9% |
| 2016 | 721 ha | +0.8% |
| 2017 | 729 ha | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 729 ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 730 ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 729 ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 729 ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 730 ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 729 ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 730 ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0 ha | 0 ha | 0 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 145 ha | 0 ha | 400 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 299 ha | 200 ha | 600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 635.8 ha | 538 ha | 700 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 655.7 ha | 541 ha | 866 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 721.9 ha | 688 ha | 785 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 729.4 ha | 729 ha | 730 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Dominica
- 35 Trinidad and Tobago 1,548 ha compare
- 36 Guadeloupe 766 ha compare
- 37 Martinique 763 ha compare
- 39 French Guiana 451 ha compare
- 40 Fiji 418 ha compare
- 41 Belize 412 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Dominica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.04 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.121 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,330 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -2.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2601 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 12.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 12.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.2% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Dominica?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Dominica was 730 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 Dominica?
- The highest recorded value was 866 ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Dominica?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 ha in 1961.
- How does Dominica rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Dominica ranks 38th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Dominica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Dominica 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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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.