Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 17,983 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Guinea-Bissau, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Guinea-Bissau recorded 17,983 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 7.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 18,174 ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 7,000 ha, in 1961.
That places Guinea-Bissau 19th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Guinea-Bissau, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 7,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 8,000 ha | +14.3% |
| 1965 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 8,300 ha | +3.8% |
| 1973 | 8,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 8,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 8,500 ha | +2.4% |
| 1976 | 8,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 9,000 ha | +5.9% |
| 1978 | 8,500 ha | -5.6% |
| 1979 | 9,000 ha | +5.9% |
| 1980 | 10,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1981 | 9,300 ha | -7.0% |
| 1982 | 9,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 9,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 9,700 ha | +4.3% |
| 1985 | 9,700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 9,700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 10,000 ha | +3.1% |
| 1988 | 10,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 11,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 1990 | 8,622 ha | -21.6% |
| 1991 | 10,775 ha | +25.0% |
| 1992 | 11,100 ha | +3.0% |
| 1993 | 11,400 ha | +2.7% |
| 1994 | 11,600 ha | +1.8% |
| 1995 | 11,900 ha | +2.6% |
| 1996 | 12,200 ha | +2.5% |
| 1997 | 12,400 ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 12,686 ha | +2.3% |
| 1999 | 13,200 ha | +4.1% |
| 2000 | 13,239 ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 13,468 ha | +1.7% |
| 2002 | 13,684 ha | +1.6% |
| 2003 | 13,500 ha | -1.3% |
| 2004 | 14,068 ha | +4.2% |
| 2005 | 14,203 ha | +1.0% |
| 2006 | 14,348 ha | +1.0% |
| 2007 | 14,000 ha | -2.4% |
| 2008 | 15,000 ha | +7.1% |
| 2009 | 15,174 ha | +1.2% |
| 2010 | 15,514 ha | +2.2% |
| 2011 | 15,857 ha | +2.2% |
| 2012 | 16,500 ha | +4.1% |
| 2013 | 16,475 ha | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 16,673 ha | +1.2% |
| 2015 | 16,949 ha | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 17,247 ha | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 17,586 ha | +2.0% |
| 2018 | 17,883 ha | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 18,174 ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 17,881 ha | -1.6% |
| 2021 | 17,980 ha | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 18,012 ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 17,957 ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 17,983 ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,667 ha | 7,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,440 ha | 8,000 ha | 9,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,800 ha | 9,300 ha | 11,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,588 ha | 8,622 ha | 13,200 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,068 ha | 13,239 ha | 15,174 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,886 ha | 15,514 ha | 18,174 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,963 ha | 17,881 ha | 18,012 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guinea-Bissau
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.4063 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 456.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5335 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 40.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 40.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 31.5% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Guinea-Bissau?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Guinea-Bissau was 17,983 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 Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 18,174 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 19th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau 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.