Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 8,509 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Sierra Leone recorded 8,509 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 8.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Sierra Leone peaked at 8,582 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 4,000 ha, in 1961.
Sierra Leone ranks 25th 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 Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 4,200 ha | +5.0% |
| 1977 | 4,300 ha | +2.4% |
| 1978 | 4,400 ha | +2.3% |
| 1979 | 4,500 ha | +2.3% |
| 1980 | 4,800 ha | +6.7% |
| 1981 | 4,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 5,200 ha | +8.3% |
| 1983 | 5,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 5,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 5,300 ha | +1.9% |
| 1986 | 5,400 ha | +1.9% |
| 1987 | 5,450 ha | +0.9% |
| 1988 | 5,480 ha | +0.6% |
| 1989 | 5,500 ha | +0.4% |
| 1990 | 5,150 ha | -6.4% |
| 1991 | 5,266 ha | +2.3% |
| 1992 | 5,273 ha | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 5,252 ha | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 5,285 ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 4,913 ha | -7.0% |
| 1996 | 4,957 ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 5,025 ha | +1.4% |
| 1998 | 5,200 ha | +3.5% |
| 1999 | 5,300 ha | +1.9% |
| 2000 | 5,482 ha | +3.4% |
| 2001 | 5,700 ha | +4.0% |
| 2002 | 5,971 ha | +4.8% |
| 2003 | 6,300 ha | +5.5% |
| 2004 | 6,700 ha | +6.3% |
| 2005 | 7,000 ha | +4.5% |
| 2006 | 7,100 ha | +1.4% |
| 2007 | 7,200 ha | +1.4% |
| 2008 | 7,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 7,400 ha | +2.8% |
| 2010 | 7,532 ha | +1.8% |
| 2011 | 7,618 ha | +1.1% |
| 2012 | 7,500 ha | -1.5% |
| 2013 | 7,779 ha | +3.7% |
| 2014 | 7,830 ha | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 8,010 ha | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 8,157 ha | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 8,286 ha | +1.6% |
| 2018 | 8,389 ha | +1.2% |
| 2019 | 8,481 ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 8,582 ha | +1.2% |
| 2021 | 8,484 ha | -1.1% |
| 2022 | 8,516 ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 8,527 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 8,509 ha | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,000 ha | 4,000 ha | 4,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,140 ha | 4,000 ha | 4,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,233 ha | 4,800 ha | 5,500 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,162 ha | 4,913 ha | 5,300 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,605 ha | 5,482 ha | 7,400 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,958 ha | 7,500 ha | 8,481 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,524 ha | 8,484 ha | 8,582 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sierra Leone
- 22 Bangladesh 11,719 ha compare
- 23 Congo 11,563 ha compare
- 24 Guatemala 10,507 ha compare
- 26 Equatorial Guinea 8,069 ha compare
- 27 Honduras 7,919 ha compare
- 28 Costa Rica 7,158 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 29.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 29.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Sierra Leone?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Sierra Leone was 8,509 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 Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 8,582 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Sierra Leone ranks 25th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.