Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania
United Republic of Tanzania: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 320,143 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
United Republic of Tanzania recorded 320,143 ha for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 8.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania peaked at 320,732 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 113,000 ha, in 1968.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 132,600 ha | — |
| 1962 | 129,000 ha | -2.7% |
| 1963 | 144,000 ha | +11.6% |
| 1964 | 157,000 ha | +9.0% |
| 1965 | 157,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 207,000 ha | +31.8% |
| 1967 | 137,000 ha | -33.8% |
| 1968 | 113,000 ha | -17.5% |
| 1969 | 149,500 ha | +32.3% |
| 1970 | 210,000 ha | +40.5% |
| 1971 | 138,000 ha | -34.3% |
| 1972 | 120,000 ha | -13.0% |
| 1973 | 114,000 ha | -5.0% |
| 1974 | 133,500 ha | +17.1% |
| 1975 | 140,000 ha | +4.9% |
| 1976 | 220,000 ha | +57.1% |
| 1977 | 229,000 ha | +4.1% |
| 1978 | 225,500 ha | -1.5% |
| 1979 | 224,500 ha | -0.4% |
| 1980 | 227,500 ha | +1.3% |
| 1981 | 231,000 ha | +1.5% |
| 1982 | 230,000 ha | -0.4% |
| 1983 | 234,000 ha | +1.7% |
| 1984 | 237,000 ha | +1.3% |
| 1985 | 238,000 ha | +0.4% |
| 1986 | 239,000 ha | +0.4% |
| 1987 | 244,000 ha | +2.1% |
| 1988 | 250,000 ha | +2.5% |
| 1989 | 229,000 ha | -8.4% |
| 1990 | 253,000 ha | +10.5% |
| 1991 | 230,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1992 | 245,000 ha | +6.5% |
| 1993 | 247,000 ha | +0.8% |
| 1994 | 225,040 ha | -8.9% |
| 1995 | 198,560 ha | -11.8% |
| 1996 | 192,800 ha | -2.9% |
| 1997 | 193,120 ha | +0.2% |
| 1998 | 267,760 ha | +38.6% |
| 1999 | 202,400 ha | -24.4% |
| 2000 | 242,800 ha | +20.0% |
| 2001 | 307,922 ha | +26.8% |
| 2002 | 308,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 273,310 ha | -11.3% |
| 2004 | 269,331 ha | -1.5% |
| 2005 | 275,500 ha | +2.3% |
| 2006 | 272,215 ha | -1.2% |
| 2007 | 271,878 ha | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 274,952 ha | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 277,450 ha | +0.9% |
| 2010 | 280,001 ha | +0.9% |
| 2011 | 282,607 ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 285,269 ha | +0.9% |
| 2013 | 287,990 ha | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 294,589 ha | +2.3% |
| 2015 | 296,256 ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 300,329 ha | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 305,896 ha | +1.9% |
| 2018 | 311,025 ha | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 314,530 ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 318,955 ha | +1.4% |
| 2021 | 319,851 ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 320,732 ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 319,846 ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 320,143 ha | +0.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | +57.1% | 140,000 ha | 220,000 ha |
| 1970 | +40.5% | 149,500 ha | 210,000 ha |
| 1998 | +38.6% | 193,120 ha | 267,760 ha |
| 1971 | -34.3% | 210,000 ha | 138,000 ha |
| 1967 | -33.8% | 207,000 ha | 137,000 ha |
| 1969 | +32.3% | 113,000 ha | 149,500 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 147,344 ha | 113,000 ha | 207,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 175,450 ha | 114,000 ha | 229,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 235,950 ha | 227,500 ha | 250,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 225,468 ha | 192,800 ha | 267,760 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 277,336 ha | 242,800 ha | 308,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 295,849 ha | 280,001 ha | 314,530 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 319,905 ha | 318,955 ha | 320,732 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania was 320,143 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 United Republic of Tanzania?
- The highest recorded value was 320,732 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in United Republic of Tanzania?
- The lowest recorded value was 113,000 ha in 1968.
- How does United Republic of Tanzania rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- United Republic of Tanzania ranks 5th out of 12 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in United Republic of Tanzania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this United Republic of Tanzania 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.