Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 3.05 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Eastern Africa stood at 3.05 million ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.1% on the previous year and up 133.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Eastern Africa peaked at 3.05 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 646,000 ha, in 1965.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 771,600 ha | — |
| 1962 | 801,000 ha | +3.8% |
| 1963 | 873,000 ha | +9.0% |
| 1964 | 927,000 ha | +6.2% |
| 1965 | 646,000 ha | -30.3% |
| 1966 | 700,900 ha | +8.5% |
| 1967 | 791,100 ha | +12.9% |
| 1968 | 938,100 ha | +18.6% |
| 1969 | 912,500 ha | -2.7% |
| 1970 | 1.14 million ha | +25.4% |
| 1971 | 1.07 million ha | -6.6% |
| 1972 | 1.06 million ha | -0.6% |
| 1973 | 1.11 million ha | +4.9% |
| 1974 | 1.22 million ha | +9.9% |
| 1975 | 1.27 million ha | +3.4% |
| 1976 | 1.43 million ha | +13.0% |
| 1977 | 1.50 million ha | +4.9% |
| 1978 | 1.54 million ha | +3.0% |
| 1979 | 1.55 million ha | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 1.44 million ha | -7.2% |
| 1981 | 1.45 million ha | +0.8% |
| 1982 | 1.47 million ha | +1.4% |
| 1983 | 1.48 million ha | +1.1% |
| 1984 | 1.49 million ha | +0.2% |
| 1985 | 1.49 million ha | +0.1% |
| 1986 | 1.49 million ha | +0.1% |
| 1987 | 1.56 million ha | +4.5% |
| 1988 | 1.60 million ha | +2.4% |
| 1989 | 1.60 million ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 1.69 million ha | +5.7% |
| 1991 | 1.71 million ha | +1.3% |
| 1992 | 1.75 million ha | +2.6% |
| 1993 | 1.79 million ha | +2.0% |
| 1994 | 1.78 million ha | -0.6% |
| 1995 | 1.76 million ha | -0.7% |
| 1996 | 1.77 million ha | +0.4% |
| 1997 | 1.78 million ha | +0.8% |
| 1998 | 1.87 million ha | +4.8% |
| 1999 | 1.82 million ha | -2.9% |
| 2000 | 1.88 million ha | +3.5% |
| 2001 | 1.97 million ha | +4.6% |
| 2002 | 1.99 million ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 1.97 million ha | -1.2% |
| 2004 | 1.97 million ha | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 1.98 million ha | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 1.99 million ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1.99 million ha | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1.23 million ha | -38.0% |
| 2009 | 1.26 million ha | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 1.30 million ha | +3.1% |
| 2011 | 1.30 million ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 1.30 million ha | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1.30 million ha | -0.3% |
| 2014 | 1.31 million ha | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 1.27 million ha | -2.7% |
| 2016 | 1.10 million ha | -13.6% |
| 2017 | 1.36 million ha | +24.2% |
| 2018 | 1.79 million ha | +31.3% |
| 2019 | 2.45 million ha | +36.7% |
| 2020 | 3.00 million ha | +22.5% |
| 2021 | 2.87 million ha | -4.3% |
| 2022 | 2.89 million ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 2.99 million ha | +3.4% |
| 2024 | 3.05 million ha | +2.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 817,911 ha | 646,000 ha | 938,100 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.29 million ha | 1.06 million ha | 1.55 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.51 million ha | 1.44 million ha | 1.60 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.77 million ha | 1.69 million ha | 1.87 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.82 million ha | 1.23 million ha | 1.99 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.45 million ha | 1.10 million ha | 2.45 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.96 million ha | 2.87 million ha | 3.05 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 2 Cameroon 539,375 ha compare
- 3 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.09 million ha compare
- 3 Ghana 397,332 ha compare
- 4 Colombia 281,914 ha compare
- 5 Philippines 263,973 ha compare
- 5 United Republic of Tanzania 320,143 ha compare
- 6 Nigeria 162,000 ha compare
- 7 Peru 156,483 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 56,130 ha compare
- 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 41,631 ha compare
- 8 Ecuador 134,450 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Eastern Africa?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Eastern Africa was 3.05 million 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 Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3.05 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 646,000 ha in 1965.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Eastern Africa ranks 5th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 133.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.