Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 40,542 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Sri Lanka, 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 Sri Lanka is 40,542 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 12.4% on the previous year and down 27.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Sri Lanka peaked at 56,200 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 20,825 ha, in 1966.
Sri Lanka ranks 15th 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 Sri Lanka, 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 | 52,940 ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 56,200 ha | +6.2% |
| 2015 | 50,319 ha | -10.5% |
| 2016 | 47,958 ha | -4.7% |
| 2017 | 49,307 ha | +2.8% |
| 2018 | 45,499 ha | -7.7% |
| 2019 | 44,671 ha | -1.8% |
| 2020 | 50,243 ha | +12.5% |
| 2021 | 47,766 ha | -4.9% |
| 2022 | 47,912 ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 46,287 ha | -3.4% |
| 2024 | 40,542 ha | -12.4% |
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 | 50,572 ha | 44,671 ha | 56,200 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 46,550 ha | 40,542 ha | 50,243 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Sri Lanka?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Sri Lanka was 40,542 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 56,200 ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 20,825 ha in 1966.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Sri Lanka ranks 15th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.