Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Tonga
Tonga: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 234 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Tonga, 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 Tonga is 234 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.3% on the previous year and down 3.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Tonga peaked at 659 ha in 1993 and was at its lowest, 224 ha, in 1999.
That places Tonga 43rd out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Tonga, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 500 ha | — |
| 1962 | 400 ha | -20.0% |
| 1963 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 350 ha | -12.5% |
| 1966 | 300 ha | -14.3% |
| 1967 | 250 ha | -16.7% |
| 1968 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 300 ha | +20.0% |
| 1971 | 280 ha | -6.7% |
| 1972 | 280 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 270 ha | -3.6% |
| 1974 | 260 ha | -3.7% |
| 1975 | 250 ha | -3.8% |
| 1976 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 250 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 225 ha | -10.0% |
| 1985 | 226 ha | +0.4% |
| 1986 | 270 ha | +19.5% |
| 1987 | 330 ha | +22.2% |
| 1988 | 335 ha | +1.5% |
| 1989 | 345 ha | +3.0% |
| 1990 | 347 ha | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 348 ha | +0.3% |
| 1992 | 390 ha | +12.1% |
| 1993 | 659 ha | +69.0% |
| 1994 | 250 ha | -62.1% |
| 1995 | 336 ha | +34.4% |
| 1996 | 328 ha | -2.4% |
| 1997 | 320 ha | -2.4% |
| 1998 | 315 ha | -1.6% |
| 1999 | 224 ha | -28.9% |
| 2000 | 272 ha | +21.4% |
| 2001 | 250 ha | -8.1% |
| 2002 | 283 ha | +13.2% |
| 2003 | 279 ha | -1.4% |
| 2004 | 273 ha | -2.2% |
| 2005 | 269 ha | -1.5% |
| 2006 | 260 ha | -3.3% |
| 2007 | 270 ha | +3.8% |
| 2008 | 259 ha | -4.1% |
| 2009 | 257 ha | -0.8% |
| 2010 | 255 ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 253 ha | -0.8% |
| 2012 | 280 ha | +10.7% |
| 2013 | 245 ha | -12.5% |
| 2014 | 242 ha | -1.2% |
| 2015 | 248 ha | +2.5% |
| 2016 | 245 ha | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 238 ha | -2.9% |
| 2018 | 236 ha | -0.8% |
| 2019 | 236 ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 232 ha | -1.7% |
| 2021 | 236 ha | +1.7% |
| 2022 | 239 ha | +1.3% |
| 2023 | 237 ha | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 234 ha | -1.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 344.44 ha | 250 ha | 500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 264 ha | 250 ha | 300 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 273.1 ha | 225 ha | 345 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 351.7 ha | 224 ha | 659 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 267.2 ha | 250 ha | 283 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 247.8 ha | 236 ha | 280 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 235.6 ha | 232 ha | 239 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1857 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,154 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.4224 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Tonga?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Tonga was 234 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 Tonga?
- The highest recorded value was 659 ha in 1993.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Tonga?
- The lowest recorded value was 224 ha in 1999.
- How does Tonga rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Tonga ranks 43rd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Tonga?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Tonga 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.