Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 4.96 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) stood at 4.96 million ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.0% on the previous year and up 69.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 4.96 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1.12 million ha, in 1965.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1.22 million ha | — |
| 1962 | 1.29 million ha | +5.2% |
| 1963 | 1.35 million ha | +5.0% |
| 1964 | 1.46 million ha | +8.1% |
| 1965 | 1.12 million ha | -23.2% |
| 1966 | 1.19 million ha | +6.0% |
| 1967 | 1.32 million ha | +10.7% |
| 1968 | 1.48 million ha | +12.3% |
| 1969 | 1.43 million ha | -3.4% |
| 1970 | 1.71 million ha | +19.5% |
| 1971 | 1.66 million ha | -2.6% |
| 1972 | 1.65 million ha | -0.6% |
| 1973 | 1.72 million ha | +4.3% |
| 1974 | 1.85 million ha | +7.5% |
| 1975 | 1.88 million ha | +1.7% |
| 1976 | 2.03 million ha | +8.0% |
| 1977 | 2.12 million ha | +4.2% |
| 1978 | 2.19 million ha | +3.2% |
| 1979 | 2.22 million ha | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 2.12 million ha | -4.1% |
| 1981 | 2.15 million ha | +1.0% |
| 1982 | 2.17 million ha | +1.1% |
| 1983 | 2.47 million ha | +14.0% |
| 1984 | 2.39 million ha | -3.5% |
| 1985 | 2.45 million ha | +2.5% |
| 1986 | 2.48 million ha | +1.5% |
| 1987 | 2.32 million ha | -6.6% |
| 1988 | 2.34 million ha | +0.9% |
| 1989 | 2.38 million ha | +1.5% |
| 1990 | 2.47 million ha | +3.9% |
| 1991 | 2.55 million ha | +3.2% |
| 1992 | 2.60 million ha | +1.8% |
| 1993 | 2.66 million ha | +2.6% |
| 1994 | 2.69 million ha | +1.2% |
| 1995 | 2.51 million ha | -6.7% |
| 1996 | 2.54 million ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 2.50 million ha | -1.3% |
| 1998 | 2.55 million ha | +1.9% |
| 1999 | 2.49 million ha | -2.5% |
| 2000 | 2.56 million ha | +2.8% |
| 2001 | 2.65 million ha | +3.8% |
| 2002 | 2.71 million ha | +2.1% |
| 2003 | 2.70 million ha | -0.5% |
| 2004 | 2.71 million ha | +0.6% |
| 2005 | 2.73 million ha | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 2.75 million ha | +0.8% |
| 2007 | 2.67 million ha | -2.9% |
| 2008 | 1.93 million ha | -27.8% |
| 2009 | 2.15 million ha | +11.6% |
| 2010 | 2.41 million ha | +11.8% |
| 2011 | 2.45 million ha | +1.9% |
| 2012 | 2.52 million ha | +2.8% |
| 2013 | 2.70 million ha | +6.9% |
| 2014 | 2.94 million ha | +8.9% |
| 2015 | 2.93 million ha | -0.2% |
| 2016 | 2.87 million ha | -2.2% |
| 2017 | 3.14 million ha | +9.4% |
| 2018 | 3.58 million ha | +14.2% |
| 2019 | 4.24 million ha | +18.4% |
| 2020 | 4.85 million ha | +14.5% |
| 2021 | 4.75 million ha | -2.1% |
| 2022 | 4.77 million ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 4.91 million ha | +3.0% |
| 2024 | 4.96 million ha | +1.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | -27.8% | 2.67 million ha | 1.93 million ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.32 million ha | 1.12 million ha | 1.48 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.90 million ha | 1.65 million ha | 2.22 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2.33 million ha | 2.12 million ha | 2.48 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2.56 million ha | 2.47 million ha | 2.69 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.56 million ha | 1.93 million ha | 2.75 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.98 million ha | 2.41 million ha | 4.24 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.85 million ha | 4.75 million ha | 4.96 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 1 Uganda 2.69 million ha compare
- 2 Cameroon 539,375 ha compare
- 3 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.09 million ha compare
- 3 Ghana 397,332 ha compare
- 4 Colombia 281,914 ha compare
- 5 Philippines 263,973 ha compare
- 5 United Republic of Tanzania 320,143 ha compare
- 6 Nigeria 162,000 ha compare
- 7 Peru 156,483 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 56,130 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 4.96 million 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 4.96 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.12 million ha in 1965.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 4th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 69.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.