Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 4,740 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Puerto Rico, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Puerto Rico stood at 4,740 ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 6.1% on the previous year and up 50.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Puerto Rico peaked at 11,234 ha in 1998 and was at its lowest, 3,146 ha, in 2014.
That places Puerto Rico 29th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Puerto Rico, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,541 ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,980 ha | +7.9% |
| 1963 | 6,367 ha | +6.5% |
| 1964 | 5,502 ha | -13.6% |
| 1965 | 6,445 ha | +17.1% |
| 1966 | 6,500 ha | +0.9% |
| 1967 | 6,400 ha | -1.5% |
| 1968 | 5,700 ha | -10.9% |
| 1969 | 6,400 ha | +12.3% |
| 1970 | 6,681 ha | +4.4% |
| 1971 | 4,716 ha | -29.4% |
| 1972 | 4,323 ha | -8.3% |
| 1973 | 4,323 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 4,323 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 5,048 ha | +16.8% |
| 1976 | 4,716 ha | -6.6% |
| 1977 | 5,000 ha | +6.0% |
| 1978 | 5,200 ha | +4.0% |
| 1979 | 5,400 ha | +3.8% |
| 1980 | 5,896 ha | +9.2% |
| 1981 | 6,100 ha | +3.5% |
| 1982 | 6,200 ha | +1.6% |
| 1983 | 6,400 ha | +3.2% |
| 1984 | 6,450 ha | +0.8% |
| 1985 | 6,200 ha | -3.9% |
| 1986 | 6,400 ha | +3.2% |
| 1987 | 6,500 ha | +1.6% |
| 1988 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 6,000 ha | -7.7% |
| 1990 | 4,050 ha | -32.5% |
| 1991 | 6,100 ha | +50.6% |
| 1992 | 6,130 ha | +0.5% |
| 1993 | 7,884 ha | +28.6% |
| 1994 | 6,288 ha | -20.2% |
| 1995 | 4,650 ha | -26.0% |
| 1996 | 5,400 ha | +16.1% |
| 1997 | 6,068 ha | +12.4% |
| 1998 | 11,234 ha | +85.1% |
| 1999 | 5,000 ha | -55.5% |
| 2000 | 6,900 ha | +38.0% |
| 2001 | 6,811 ha | -1.3% |
| 2002 | 7,200 ha | +5.7% |
| 2003 | 6,933 ha | -3.7% |
| 2004 | 6,954 ha | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 4,296 ha | -38.2% |
| 2006 | 5,286 ha | +23.0% |
| 2007 | 5,279 ha | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 5,477 ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 5,462 ha | -0.3% |
| 2010 | 5,661 ha | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 5,572 ha | -1.6% |
| 2012 | 8,929 ha | +60.2% |
| 2013 | 5,125 ha | -42.6% |
| 2014 | 3,146 ha | -38.6% |
| 2015 | 3,481 ha | +10.6% |
| 2016 | 4,375 ha | +25.7% |
| 2017 | 4,601 ha | +5.2% |
| 2018 | 4,175 ha | -9.3% |
| 2019 | 4,674 ha | +12.0% |
| 2020 | 4,879 ha | +4.4% |
| 2021 | 4,932 ha | +1.1% |
| 2022 | 6,239 ha | +26.5% |
| 2023 | 5,046 ha | -19.1% |
| 2024 | 4,740 ha | -6.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,093 ha | 5,502 ha | 6,500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,973 ha | 4,323 ha | 6,681 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,265 ha | 5,896 ha | 6,500 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,280 ha | 4,050 ha | 11,234 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,060 ha | 4,296 ha | 7,200 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,974 ha | 3,146 ha | 8,929 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,167 ha | 4,740 ha | 6,239 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Puerto Rico
- 26 Equatorial Guinea 8,069 ha compare
- 27 Honduras 7,919 ha compare
- 28 Costa Rica 7,158 ha compare
- 30 Sao Tome and Principe 4,110 ha compare
- 31 Guyana 3,777 ha compare
- 32 Jamaica 2,979 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Puerto Rico
- Rural population, per capita 0.0566 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.4415 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0069 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 278.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -2.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population 180,246 (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 887.20 million current US$ (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Puerto Rico?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Puerto Rico was 4,740 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 Puerto Rico?
- The highest recorded value was 11,234 ha in 1998.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,146 ha in 2014.
- How does Puerto Rico rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Puerto Rico ranks 29th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Puerto Rico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 50.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Puerto Rico 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.