Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Ghana
Ghana: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 397,332 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 397,332 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 11.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Ghana peaked at 419,170 ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 110,000 ha, in 1961.
That places Ghana 3rd out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Ghana, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 110,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 110,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 120,000 ha | +9.1% |
| 1964 | 120,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 125,000 ha | +4.2% |
| 1966 | 127,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 1967 | 135,000 ha | +6.3% |
| 1968 | 140,000 ha | +3.7% |
| 1969 | 146,000 ha | +4.3% |
| 1970 | 146,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 150,000 ha | +2.7% |
| 1972 | 155,000 ha | +3.3% |
| 1973 | 170,000 ha | +9.7% |
| 1974 | 180,000 ha | +5.9% |
| 1975 | 229,900 ha | +27.7% |
| 1976 | 211,000 ha | -8.2% |
| 1977 | 168,000 ha | -20.4% |
| 1978 | 161,000 ha | -4.2% |
| 1979 | 139,000 ha | -13.7% |
| 1980 | 123,000 ha | -11.5% |
| 1981 | 128,000 ha | +4.1% |
| 1982 | 141,000 ha | +10.2% |
| 1983 | 143,000 ha | +1.4% |
| 1984 | 235,000 ha | +64.3% |
| 1985 | 266,000 ha | +13.2% |
| 1986 | 190,800 ha | -28.3% |
| 1987 | 189,000 ha | -0.9% |
| 1988 | 211,000 ha | +11.6% |
| 1989 | 182,400 ha | -13.6% |
| 1990 | 129,100 ha | -29.2% |
| 1991 | 173,500 ha | +34.4% |
| 1992 | 157,100 ha | -9.5% |
| 1993 | 164,300 ha | +4.6% |
| 1994 | 183,500 ha | +11.7% |
| 1995 | 212,500 ha | +15.8% |
| 1996 | 228,751 ha | +7.6% |
| 1997 | 224,800 ha | -1.7% |
| 1998 | 245,900 ha | +9.4% |
| 1999 | 252,600 ha | +2.7% |
| 2000 | 244,400 ha | -3.2% |
| 2001 | 265,100 ha | +8.5% |
| 2002 | 276,900 ha | +4.5% |
| 2003 | 286,500 ha | +3.5% |
| 2004 | 281,192 ha | -1.9% |
| 2005 | 290,000 ha | +3.1% |
| 2006 | 299,000 ha | +3.1% |
| 2007 | 305,290 ha | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 311,820 ha | +2.1% |
| 2009 | 324,870 ha | +4.2% |
| 2010 | 327,968 ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 336,497 ha | +2.6% |
| 2012 | 337,293 ha | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 339,060 ha | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 357,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 2015 | 362,607 ha | +1.6% |
| 2016 | 362,607 ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 384,701 ha | +6.1% |
| 2018 | 419,170 ha | +9.0% |
| 2019 | 388,826 ha | -7.2% |
| 2020 | 394,325 ha | +1.4% |
| 2021 | 400,774 ha | +1.6% |
| 2022 | 394,642 ha | -1.5% |
| 2023 | 396,580 ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 397,332 ha | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 125,889 ha | 110,000 ha | 146,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 170,990 ha | 139,000 ha | 229,900 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 180,920 ha | 123,000 ha | 266,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 197,205 ha | 129,100 ha | 252,600 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 288,507 ha | 244,400 ha | 324,870 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 361,573 ha | 327,968 ha | 419,170 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 396,731 ha | 394,325 ha | 400,774 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 41.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2128 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 692.99 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4821 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4108 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Ghana?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Ghana was 397,332 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 Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 419,170 ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 110,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Ghana rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Ghana ranks 3rd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.