Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 52,261 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Southern Asia, 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 Southern Asia is 52,261 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 10.1% on the previous year and down 21.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Southern Asia peaked at 66,527 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 20,825 ha, in 1966.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Southern Asia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 39,502 ha | — |
| 1962 | 39,246 ha | -0.6% |
| 1963 | 39,000 ha | -0.6% |
| 1964 | 42,000 ha | +7.7% |
| 1965 | 45,000 ha | +7.1% |
| 1966 | 20,825 ha | -53.7% |
| 1967 | 24,199 ha | +16.2% |
| 1968 | 52,903 ha | +118.6% |
| 1969 | 44,514 ha | -15.9% |
| 1970 | 44,199 ha | -0.7% |
| 1971 | 48,000 ha | +8.6% |
| 1972 | 49,835 ha | +3.8% |
| 1973 | 22,843 ha | -54.2% |
| 1974 | 28,259 ha | +23.7% |
| 1975 | 29,366 ha | +3.9% |
| 1976 | 33,913 ha | +15.5% |
| 1977 | 29,606 ha | -12.7% |
| 1978 | 29,362 ha | -0.8% |
| 1979 | 26,920 ha | -8.3% |
| 1980 | 31,143 ha | +15.7% |
| 1981 | 29,600 ha | -5.0% |
| 1982 | 30,307 ha | +2.4% |
| 1983 | 30,850 ha | +1.8% |
| 1984 | 35,880 ha | +16.3% |
| 1985 | 35,200 ha | -1.9% |
| 1986 | 42,866 ha | +21.8% |
| 1987 | 39,367 ha | -8.2% |
| 1988 | 40,884 ha | +3.9% |
| 1989 | 41,920 ha | +2.5% |
| 1990 | 36,700 ha | -12.5% |
| 1991 | 38,223 ha | +4.1% |
| 1992 | 37,687 ha | -1.4% |
| 1993 | 40,000 ha | +6.1% |
| 1994 | 42,000 ha | +5.0% |
| 1995 | 44,000 ha | +4.8% |
| 1996 | 46,554 ha | +5.8% |
| 1997 | 50,450 ha | +8.4% |
| 1998 | 51,000 ha | +1.1% |
| 1999 | 52,000 ha | +2.0% |
| 2000 | 51,000 ha | -1.9% |
| 2001 | 50,760 ha | -0.5% |
| 2002 | 50,000 ha | -1.5% |
| 2003 | 49,680 ha | -0.6% |
| 2004 | 50,380 ha | +1.4% |
| 2005 | 51,150 ha | +1.5% |
| 2006 | 48,860 ha | -4.5% |
| 2007 | 49,420 ha | +1.1% |
| 2008 | 47,680 ha | -3.5% |
| 2009 | 48,040 ha | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 52,380 ha | +9.0% |
| 2011 | 53,630 ha | +2.4% |
| 2012 | 52,820 ha | -1.5% |
| 2013 | 63,251 ha | +19.7% |
| 2014 | 66,527 ha | +5.2% |
| 2015 | 60,923 ha | -8.4% |
| 2016 | 58,676 ha | -3.7% |
| 2017 | 60,474 ha | +3.1% |
| 2018 | 56,850 ha | -6.0% |
| 2019 | 55,944 ha | -1.6% |
| 2020 | 62,066 ha | +10.9% |
| 2021 | 59,466 ha | -4.2% |
| 2022 | 59,512 ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 58,127 ha | -2.3% |
| 2024 | 52,261 ha | -10.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 38,577 ha | 20,825 ha | 52,903 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 34,230 ha | 22,843 ha | 49,835 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 35,802 ha | 29,600 ha | 42,866 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 43,861 ha | 36,700 ha | 52,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 49,697 ha | 47,680 ha | 51,150 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 58,148 ha | 52,380 ha | 66,527 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 58,286 ha | 52,261 ha | 62,066 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Southern Asia?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Southern Asia was 52,261 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 Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 66,527 ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 20,825 ha in 1966.
- How does Southern Asia rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Southern Asia ranks 14th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Southern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.