Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Myanmar
Myanmar: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 105,786 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Myanmar, 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 Myanmar is 105,786 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.3% on the previous year and up 39.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Myanmar peaked at 107,918 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 24,281 ha, in 1961.
That places Myanmar 10th 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 Myanmar, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 24,281 ha | — |
| 1962 | 26,305 ha | +8.3% |
| 1963 | 30,352 ha | +15.4% |
| 1964 | 31,971 ha | +5.3% |
| 1965 | 33,589 ha | +5.1% |
| 1966 | 34,399 ha | +2.4% |
| 1967 | 36,827 ha | +7.1% |
| 1968 | 37,636 ha | +2.2% |
| 1969 | 38,041 ha | +1.1% |
| 1970 | 38,850 ha | +2.1% |
| 1971 | 38,850 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 38,850 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 38,850 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 39,642 ha | +2.0% |
| 1975 | 40,672 ha | +2.6% |
| 1976 | 43,113 ha | +6.0% |
| 1977 | 41,593 ha | -3.5% |
| 1978 | 42,186 ha | +1.4% |
| 1979 | 40,389 ha | -4.3% |
| 1980 | 39,589 ha | -2.0% |
| 1981 | 37,767 ha | -4.6% |
| 1982 | 38,552 ha | +2.1% |
| 1983 | 40,488 ha | +5.0% |
| 1984 | 39,550 ha | -2.3% |
| 1985 | 39,428 ha | -0.3% |
| 1986 | 40,200 ha | +2.0% |
| 1987 | 37,325 ha | -7.2% |
| 1988 | 38,556 ha | +3.3% |
| 1989 | 38,933 ha | +1.0% |
| 1990 | 43,671 ha | +12.2% |
| 1991 | 43,301 ha | -0.8% |
| 1992 | 45,730 ha | +5.6% |
| 1993 | 45,730 ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 46,134 ha | +0.9% |
| 1995 | 44,920 ha | -2.6% |
| 1996 | 45,325 ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 44,920 ha | -0.9% |
| 1998 | 44,515 ha | -0.9% |
| 1999 | 45,325 ha | +1.8% |
| 2000 | 49,372 ha | +8.9% |
| 2001 | 52,607 ha | +6.6% |
| 2002 | 55,442 ha | +5.4% |
| 2003 | 59,084 ha | +6.6% |
| 2004 | 59,084 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 61,512 ha | +4.1% |
| 2006 | 66,369 ha | +7.9% |
| 2007 | 65,964 ha | -0.6% |
| 2008 | 66,773 ha | +1.2% |
| 2009 | 68,392 ha | +2.4% |
| 2010 | 74,867 ha | +9.5% |
| 2011 | 74,058 ha | -1.1% |
| 2012 | 72,843 ha | -1.6% |
| 2013 | 73,653 ha | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 75,676 ha | +2.7% |
| 2015 | 80,128 ha | +5.9% |
| 2016 | 81,612 ha | +1.9% |
| 2017 | 88,666 ha | +8.6% |
| 2018 | 99,899 ha | +12.7% |
| 2019 | 102,547 ha | +2.7% |
| 2020 | 107,918 ha | +5.2% |
| 2021 | 86,200 ha | -20.1% |
| 2022 | 106,090 ha | +23.1% |
| 2023 | 107,199 ha | +1.0% |
| 2024 | 105,786 ha | -1.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32,600 ha | 24,281 ha | 38,041 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 40,300 ha | 38,850 ha | 43,113 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 39,039 ha | 37,325 ha | 40,488 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 44,957 ha | 43,301 ha | 46,134 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 60,460 ha | 49,372 ha | 68,392 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 82,395 ha | 72,843 ha | 102,547 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 102,639 ha | 86,200 ha | 107,918 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.26 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.253 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 376.69 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4495 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6942 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 25.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 25.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Myanmar?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Myanmar was 105,786 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 Myanmar?
- The highest recorded value was 107,918 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Myanmar?
- The lowest recorded value was 24,281 ha in 1961.
- How does Myanmar rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Myanmar ranks 10th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Myanmar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Myanmar 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.