Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Suriname
Suriname: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 364 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Suriname, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Suriname recorded 364 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and down 53.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Suriname peaked at 981 ha in 1993 and was at its lowest, 124 ha, in 1975.
That places Suriname 42nd out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Suriname, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 516 ha | — |
| 1962 | 451 ha | -12.6% |
| 1963 | 450 ha | -0.2% |
| 1964 | 304 ha | -32.4% |
| 1965 | 257 ha | -15.5% |
| 1966 | 385 ha | +49.8% |
| 1967 | 448 ha | +16.4% |
| 1968 | 800 ha | +78.6% |
| 1969 | 529 ha | -33.9% |
| 1970 | 397 ha | -25.0% |
| 1971 | 163 ha | -58.9% |
| 1972 | 151 ha | -7.4% |
| 1973 | 254 ha | +68.2% |
| 1974 | 139 ha | -45.3% |
| 1975 | 124 ha | -10.8% |
| 1976 | 201 ha | +62.1% |
| 1977 | 250 ha | +24.4% |
| 1978 | 400 ha | +60.0% |
| 1979 | 272 ha | -32.0% |
| 1980 | 284 ha | +4.4% |
| 1981 | 600 ha | +111.3% |
| 1982 | 337 ha | -43.8% |
| 1983 | 326 ha | -3.3% |
| 1984 | 452 ha | +38.7% |
| 1985 | 341 ha | -24.6% |
| 1986 | 265 ha | -22.3% |
| 1987 | 314 ha | +18.5% |
| 1988 | 322 ha | +2.5% |
| 1989 | 352 ha | +9.3% |
| 1990 | 375 ha | +6.5% |
| 1991 | 663 ha | +76.8% |
| 1992 | 622 ha | -6.2% |
| 1993 | 981 ha | +57.7% |
| 1994 | 904 ha | -7.8% |
| 1995 | 677 ha | -25.1% |
| 1996 | 526 ha | -22.3% |
| 1997 | 511 ha | -2.9% |
| 1998 | 616 ha | +20.5% |
| 1999 | 460 ha | -25.3% |
| 2000 | 496 ha | +7.8% |
| 2001 | 536 ha | +8.1% |
| 2002 | 482 ha | -10.1% |
| 2003 | 443 ha | -8.1% |
| 2004 | 381 ha | -14.0% |
| 2005 | 309 ha | -18.9% |
| 2006 | 252 ha | -18.4% |
| 2007 | 402 ha | +59.5% |
| 2008 | 332 ha | -17.4% |
| 2009 | 424 ha | +27.7% |
| 2010 | 440 ha | +3.8% |
| 2011 | 417 ha | -5.2% |
| 2012 | 602 ha | +44.4% |
| 2013 | 762 ha | +26.6% |
| 2014 | 781 ha | +2.5% |
| 2015 | 640 ha | -18.1% |
| 2016 | 640 ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 529 ha | -17.3% |
| 2018 | 483 ha | -8.7% |
| 2019 | 471 ha | -2.5% |
| 2020 | 595 ha | +26.3% |
| 2021 | 345 ha | -42.0% |
| 2022 | 313 ha | -9.3% |
| 2023 | 362 ha | +15.7% |
| 2024 | 364 ha | +0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 460 ha | 257 ha | 800 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 235.1 ha | 124 ha | 400 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 359.3 ha | 265 ha | 600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 633.5 ha | 375 ha | 981 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 405.7 ha | 252 ha | 536 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 576.5 ha | 417 ha | 781 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 395.8 ha | 313 ha | 595 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Suriname
- 39 French Guiana 451 ha compare
- 40 Fiji 418 ha compare
- 41 Belize 412 ha compare
- 43 Tonga 234 ha compare
- 44 New Caledonia 140 ha compare
- 45 Saint Lucia 139 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Suriname
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 20.23 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0677 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 471.32 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7818 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3421 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.8% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Suriname?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Suriname was 364 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 Suriname?
- The highest recorded value was 981 ha in 1993.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Suriname?
- The lowest recorded value was 124 ha in 1975.
- How does Suriname rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Suriname ranks 42nd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Suriname?
- Over the last ten years it is down 53.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Suriname 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.