Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Gabon
Gabon: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 50,998 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Gabon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Gabon recorded 50,998 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and down 3.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Gabon peaked at 58,000 ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 18,000 ha, in 1961.
Gabon ranks 13th of 50 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Gabon, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 18,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 18,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 19,000 ha | +5.6% |
| 1964 | 19,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 20,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 1966 | 20,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 21,000 ha | +5.0% |
| 1968 | 21,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 23,000 ha | +9.5% |
| 1970 | 23,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 23,500 ha | +2.2% |
| 1972 | 23,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 24,500 ha | +4.3% |
| 1974 | 24,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 25,000 ha | +2.0% |
| 1976 | 25,500 ha | +2.0% |
| 1977 | 28,000 ha | +9.8% |
| 1978 | 30,500 ha | +8.9% |
| 1979 | 33,000 ha | +8.2% |
| 1980 | 35,000 ha | +6.1% |
| 1981 | 31,000 ha | -11.4% |
| 1982 | 36,000 ha | +16.1% |
| 1983 | 40,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1984 | 44,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 1985 | 44,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 44,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 44,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 44,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 43,500 ha | -1.1% |
| 1990 | 46,750 ha | +7.5% |
| 1991 | 46,000 ha | -1.6% |
| 1992 | 43,000 ha | -6.5% |
| 1993 | 40,201 ha | -6.5% |
| 1994 | 41,647 ha | +3.6% |
| 1995 | 40,777 ha | -2.1% |
| 1996 | 45,000 ha | +10.4% |
| 1997 | 46,000 ha | +2.2% |
| 1998 | 47,500 ha | +3.3% |
| 1999 | 48,000 ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 50,000 ha | +4.2% |
| 2001 | 49,909 ha | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 50,001 ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 50,379 ha | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 50,805 ha | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 51,116 ha | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 52,081 ha | +1.9% |
| 2007 | 52,828 ha | +1.4% |
| 2008 | 53,888 ha | +2.0% |
| 2009 | 54,434 ha | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 54,225 ha | -0.4% |
| 2011 | 58,000 ha | +7.0% |
| 2012 | 50,000 ha | -13.8% |
| 2013 | 53,224 ha | +6.4% |
| 2014 | 53,000 ha | -0.4% |
| 2015 | 52,402 ha | -1.1% |
| 2016 | 53,747 ha | +2.6% |
| 2017 | 52,998 ha | -1.4% |
| 2018 | 53,723 ha | +1.4% |
| 2019 | 52,845 ha | -1.6% |
| 2020 | 51,922 ha | -1.7% |
| 2021 | 51,076 ha | -1.6% |
| 2022 | 50,690 ha | -0.8% |
| 2023 | 51,229 ha | +1.1% |
| 2024 | 50,998 ha | -0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 19,889 ha | 18,000 ha | 23,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 26,100 ha | 23,000 ha | 33,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 40,550 ha | 31,000 ha | 44,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 44,488 ha | 40,201 ha | 48,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 51,544 ha | 49,909 ha | 54,434 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 53,416 ha | 50,000 ha | 58,000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 51,183 ha | 50,690 ha | 51,922 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0675 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 557.95 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6835 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0791 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Gabon?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Gabon was 50,998 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 Gabon?
- The highest recorded value was 58,000 ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Gabon?
- The lowest recorded value was 18,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Gabon rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Gabon ranks 13th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Gabon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gabon 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.