Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Liberia
Liberia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 22,840 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Liberia, 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 Liberia is 22,840 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 6.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Liberia peaked at 22,978 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 10,000 ha, in 1988.
That places Liberia 18th 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 Liberia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 15,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 13,000 ha | -13.3% |
| 1987 | 11,000 ha | -15.4% |
| 1988 | 10,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1989 | 11,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 1990 | 10,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1991 | 10,012 ha | +0.1% |
| 1992 | 12,000 ha | +19.9% |
| 1993 | 12,518 ha | +4.3% |
| 1994 | 13,000 ha | +3.9% |
| 1995 | 15,000 ha | +15.4% |
| 1996 | 15,500 ha | +3.3% |
| 1997 | 16,000 ha | +3.2% |
| 1998 | 16,500 ha | +3.1% |
| 1999 | 17,000 ha | +3.0% |
| 2000 | 18,000 ha | +5.9% |
| 2001 | 18,186 ha | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 18,557 ha | +2.0% |
| 2003 | 19,000 ha | +2.4% |
| 2004 | 19,165 ha | +0.9% |
| 2005 | 19,423 ha | +1.3% |
| 2006 | 19,670 ha | +1.3% |
| 2007 | 19,500 ha | -0.9% |
| 2008 | 20,163 ha | +3.4% |
| 2009 | 20,442 ha | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 20,719 ha | +1.4% |
| 2011 | 21,000 ha | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 21,500 ha | +2.4% |
| 2013 | 21,542 ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 21,519 ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 22,238 ha | +3.3% |
| 2016 | 22,340 ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 22,423 ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 22,606 ha | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 22,792 ha | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 22,978 ha | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 22,792 ha | -0.8% |
| 2022 | 22,854 ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 22,874 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 22,840 ha | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,500 ha | 10,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,753 ha | 10,000 ha | 17,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,211 ha | 18,000 ha | 20,442 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,868 ha | 20,719 ha | 22,792 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 22,868 ha | 22,792 ha | 22,978 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3265 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 298.89 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8615 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4392 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 32.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 32.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 63.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Liberia?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Liberia was 22,840 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 Liberia?
- The highest recorded value was 22,978 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Liberia?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,000 ha in 1988.
- How does Liberia rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Liberia ranks 18th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Liberia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Liberia 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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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.