Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Guinea
Guinea: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 114,996 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Guinea is 114,996 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 14.8% on the previous year and up 25.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Guinea peaked at 134,967 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 45,000 ha, in 1963.
That places Guinea 9th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Guinea, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 50,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 55,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 1963 | 45,000 ha | -18.2% |
| 1964 | 50,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1965 | 50,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 50,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 55,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 1968 | 50,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1969 | 50,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 45,000 ha | -10.0% |
| 1971 | 55,000 ha | +22.2% |
| 1972 | 60,000 ha | +9.1% |
| 1973 | 55,000 ha | -8.3% |
| 1974 | 50,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1975 | 50,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 60,000 ha | +20.0% |
| 1977 | 55,000 ha | -8.3% |
| 1978 | 50,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1979 | 70,000 ha | +40.0% |
| 1980 | 70,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 65,000 ha | -7.1% |
| 1982 | 60,000 ha | -7.7% |
| 1983 | 65,000 ha | +8.3% |
| 1984 | 70,000 ha | +7.7% |
| 1985 | 70,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 70,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 70,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 70,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 73,000 ha | +4.3% |
| 1990 | 75,000 ha | +2.7% |
| 1991 | 76,312 ha | +1.7% |
| 1992 | 78,000 ha | +2.2% |
| 1993 | 78,812 ha | +1.0% |
| 1994 | 80,000 ha | +1.5% |
| 1995 | 82,000 ha | +2.5% |
| 1996 | 83,000 ha | +1.2% |
| 1997 | 82,372 ha | -0.8% |
| 1998 | 82,102 ha | -0.3% |
| 1999 | 82,162 ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 81,855 ha | -0.4% |
| 2001 | 82,417 ha | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 82,688 ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 82,912 ha | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 83,171 ha | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 83,390 ha | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 83,500 ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 84,000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 84,911 ha | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 85,942 ha | +1.2% |
| 2010 | 87,160 ha | +1.4% |
| 2011 | 88,000 ha | +1.0% |
| 2012 | 90,000 ha | +2.3% |
| 2013 | 91,040 ha | +1.2% |
| 2014 | 91,910 ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 91,401 ha | -0.6% |
| 2016 | 91,110 ha | -0.3% |
| 2017 | 90,827 ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 90,532 ha | -0.3% |
| 2019 | 101,471 ha | +12.1% |
| 2020 | 109,879 ha | +8.3% |
| 2021 | 118,276 ha | +7.6% |
| 2022 | 126,672 ha | +7.1% |
| 2023 | 134,967 ha | +6.5% |
| 2024 | 114,996 ha | -14.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 50,556 ha | 45,000 ha | 55,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 55,000 ha | 45,000 ha | 70,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 68,300 ha | 60,000 ha | 73,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 79,976 ha | 75,000 ha | 83,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 83,479 ha | 81,855 ha | 85,942 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 91,345 ha | 87,160 ha | 101,471 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 120,958 ha | 109,879 ha | 134,967 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 14.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3129 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 587.44 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6148 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 31.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Guinea?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Guinea was 114,996 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?
- The highest recorded value was 134,967 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 45,000 ha in 1963.
- How does Guinea rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Guinea ranks 9th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 25.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea 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.