Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Kenya
Kenya: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 2,813 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Kenya recorded 2,813 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 5.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Kenya peaked at 2,841 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 1,000 ha, in 1961.
Kenya ranks 33rd of 50 countries on this measure, 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 Kenya, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,600 ha | +60.0% |
| 1981 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,400 ha | -12.5% |
| 1989 | 1,600 ha | +14.3% |
| 1990 | 1,800 ha | +12.5% |
| 1991 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 2,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1993 | 1,700 ha | -15.0% |
| 1994 | 1,600 ha | -5.9% |
| 1995 | 1,200 ha | -25.0% |
| 1996 | 1,300 ha | +8.3% |
| 1997 | 2,200 ha | +69.2% |
| 1998 | 2,300 ha | +4.5% |
| 1999 | 2,200 ha | -4.3% |
| 2000 | 2,100 ha | -4.5% |
| 2001 | 2,300 ha | +9.5% |
| 2002 | 2,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 2,000 ha | -13.0% |
| 2004 | 2,100 ha | +5.0% |
| 2005 | 2,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 2,300 ha | +9.5% |
| 2007 | 2,100 ha | -8.7% |
| 2008 | 2,500 ha | +19.0% |
| 2009 | 2,600 ha | +4.0% |
| 2010 | 2,800 ha | +7.7% |
| 2011 | 2,500 ha | -10.7% |
| 2012 | 2,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 2,600 ha | +4.0% |
| 2014 | 2,656 ha | +2.2% |
| 2015 | 2,665 ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 2,706 ha | +1.5% |
| 2017 | 2,750 ha | +1.6% |
| 2018 | 2,773 ha | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 2,798 ha | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 2,841 ha | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 2,804 ha | -1.3% |
| 2022 | 2,814 ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 2,820 ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 2,813 ha | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,580 ha | 1,400 ha | 1,600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,810 ha | 1,200 ha | 2,300 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,240 ha | 2,000 ha | 2,600 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,675 ha | 2,500 ha | 2,800 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,818 ha | 2,804 ha | 2,841 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
- 30 Sao Tome and Principe 4,110 ha compare
- 31 Guyana 3,777 ha compare
- 32 Jamaica 2,979 ha compare
- 34 El Salvador 1,977 ha compare
- 35 Trinidad and Tobago 1,548 ha compare
- 36 Guadeloupe 766 ha compare
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- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6779 units per person (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Kenya?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Kenya was 2,813 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 Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 2,841 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Kenya rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Kenya ranks 33rd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.