Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Uganda
Uganda: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 2.69 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Uganda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Uganda recorded 2.69 million ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.4% on the previous year and up 176.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Uganda peaked at 2.69 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 464,000 ha, in 1965.
Uganda ranks 1st of 50 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Uganda, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 616,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 649,000 ha | +5.4% |
| 1963 | 705,000 ha | +8.6% |
| 1964 | 746,000 ha | +5.8% |
| 1965 | 464,000 ha | -37.8% |
| 1966 | 468,900 ha | +1.1% |
| 1967 | 629,100 ha | +34.2% |
| 1968 | 800,100 ha | +27.2% |
| 1969 | 738,000 ha | -7.8% |
| 1970 | 909,000 ha | +23.2% |
| 1971 | 905,000 ha | -0.4% |
| 1972 | 916,500 ha | +1.3% |
| 1973 | 974,600 ha | +6.3% |
| 1974 | 1.06 million ha | +9.1% |
| 1975 | 1.10 million ha | +3.2% |
| 1976 | 1.18 million ha | +7.6% |
| 1977 | 1.24 million ha | +5.0% |
| 1978 | 1.29 million ha | +3.8% |
| 1979 | 1.29 million ha | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 1.17 million ha | -9.1% |
| 1981 | 1.18 million ha | +0.6% |
| 1982 | 1.20 million ha | +1.6% |
| 1983 | 1.21 million ha | +0.8% |
| 1984 | 1.21 million ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 1.21 million ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1.21 million ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 1.27 million ha | +5.0% |
| 1988 | 1.30 million ha | +2.4% |
| 1989 | 1.32 million ha | +1.5% |
| 1990 | 1.39 million ha | +5.0% |
| 1991 | 1.43 million ha | +3.0% |
| 1992 | 1.46 million ha | +2.0% |
| 1993 | 1.49 million ha | +2.0% |
| 1994 | 1.50 million ha | +0.8% |
| 1995 | 1.51 million ha | +0.8% |
| 1996 | 1.52 million ha | +0.8% |
| 1997 | 1.54 million ha | +0.9% |
| 1998 | 1.55 million ha | +1.0% |
| 1999 | 1.57 million ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 1.60 million ha | +1.8% |
| 2001 | 1.62 million ha | +1.5% |
| 2002 | 1.65 million ha | +1.6% |
| 2003 | 1.66 million ha | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 1.67 million ha | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 1.68 million ha | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1.68 million ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 1.68 million ha | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 919,000 ha | -45.2% |
| 2009 | 942,000 ha | +2.5% |
| 2010 | 978,000 ha | +3.8% |
| 2011 | 978,976 ha | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 979,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 972,125 ha | -0.7% |
| 2014 | 973,292 ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 934,420 ha | -4.0% |
| 2016 | 758,665 ha | -18.8% |
| 2017 | 1.02 million ha | +34.4% |
| 2018 | 1.44 million ha | +41.2% |
| 2019 | 2.09 million ha | +45.4% |
| 2020 | 2.64 million ha | +26.1% |
| 2021 | 2.51 million ha | -4.9% |
| 2022 | 2.53 million ha | +0.9% |
| 2023 | 2.63 million ha | +3.9% |
| 2024 | 2.69 million ha | +2.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 646,233 ha | 464,000 ha | 800,100 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.09 million ha | 905,000 ha | 1.29 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.23 million ha | 1.17 million ha | 1.32 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.50 million ha | 1.39 million ha | 1.57 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.51 million ha | 919,000 ha | 1.68 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.11 million ha | 758,665 ha | 2.09 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.60 million ha | 2.51 million ha | 2.69 million ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2613 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 315.24 current US$ per person (2025)
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- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Uganda?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Uganda was 2.69 million 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 Uganda?
- The highest recorded value was 2.69 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Uganda?
- The lowest recorded value was 464,000 ha in 1965.
- How does Uganda rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Uganda ranks 1st out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Uganda?
- Over the last ten years it is up 176.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Uganda 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.