Plantains and cooking bananas — Production by country
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...
What the numbers show
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production is currently reported for 51 countries. The highest value is 11.83 million t in Uganda; the lowest is 41.56 t in Brunei Darussalam.
The median across all reporting countries is 57,203 t, and the mean is 758,015 t.
Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Barbados (up 964.3%), and the largest decrease in Grenada (down 80.9%).
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uganda | 11.83 million t | 2024 | up 158.5% | rising |
| 2 | Cameroon | 4.66 million t | 2024 | up 4.3% | volatile |
| 3 | Ghana | 4.42 million t | 2024 | up 16.9% | volatile |
| 4 | Philippines | 3.05 million t | 2024 | down 4.0% | flat |
| 5 | Colombia | 2.66 million t | 2024 | down 23.3% | rising |
| 6 | Peru | 1.87 million t | 2009 | up 42.1% | rising |
| 7 | Dominican Republic | 1.66 million t | 2024 | up 64.8% | rising |
| 8 | Myanmar | 1.48 million t | 2024 | up 41.9% | volatile |
| 9 | Nigeria | 1.22 million t | 1990 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 10 | Ecuador | 1.08 million t | 2024 | up 42.4% | rising |
| 11 | Sri Lanka | 742,618 t | 2024 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 12 | Guinea | 602,455 t | 2024 | up 25.4% | rising |
| 13 | Cuba | 501,125 t | 2024 | down 20.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Malawi | 397,654 t | 2024 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Gabon | 354,364 t | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 16 | Nicaragua | 333,889 t | 2023 | up 293.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Haiti | 247,654 t | 2024 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 18 | Panama | 215,620 t | 2024 | up 45.0% | rising |
| 19 | Bangladesh | 184,515 t | 2024 | up 27.7% | rising |
| 20 | Guatemala | 159,760 t | 2024 | down 39.4% | volatile |
| 21 | Guyana | 140,584 t | 2024 | up 202.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Puerto Rico | 117,804 t | 2024 | up 77.5% | rising |
| 23 | Honduras | 92,149 t | 2024 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 24 | Congo | 84,570 t | 2024 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 25 | Costa Rica | 81,657 t | 2024 | down 18.3% | rising |
| 26 | Guinea-Bissau | 57,203 t | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 27 | Jamaica | 56,061 t | 2024 | up 42.5% | rising |
| 28 | Liberia | 50,561 t | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 29 | Sierra Leone | 47,238 t | 2024 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 30 | Equatorial Guinea | 41,372 t | 2024 | up 5.1% | rising |
| 31 | Sao Tome and Principe | 41,230 t | 2024 | up 6.6% | flat |
| 32 | Central African Republic | 37,783 t | 2024 | up 31.9% | falling |
| 33 | Kenya | 34,533 t | 2024 | up 8.5% | volatile |
| 34 | El Salvador | 27,190 t | 2024 | down 26.2% | volatile |
| 35 | Martinique | 15,804 t | 2006 | up 31.7% | volatile |
| 36 | Fiji | 12,550 t | 2024 | up 229.1% | rising |
| 37 | Suriname | 9,316 t | 2024 | down 62.3% | volatile |
| 38 | Dominica | 8,831 t | 2024 | up 8.1% | volatile |
| 39 | Guadeloupe | 8,006 t | 2006 | up 41.6% | rising |
| 40 | Belize | 6,592 t | 2024 | up 62.1% | volatile |
| 41 | Trinidad and Tobago | 5,423 t | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 42 | French Guiana | 3,200 t | 2006 | up 1.1% | volatile |
| 43 | Tonga | 2,372 t | 2024 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 44 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2,309 t | 2024 | down 26.8% | volatile |
| 45 | Saint Lucia | 1,946 t | 2024 | up 31.2% | volatile |
| 46 | Grenada | 607 t | 2024 | down 80.9% | volatile |
| 47 | Barbados | 372.49 t | 2024 | up 964.3% | volatile |
| 48 | New Caledonia | 270.96 t | 2024 | up 137.7% | volatile |
| 49 | Bahamas | 194.42 t | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 50 | French Polynesia | 68.67 t | 2024 | down 52.0% | volatile |
| 51 | Brunei Darussalam | 41.56 t | 2024 | up 731.2% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 44.59 million t
- Africa 30.63 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 27.01 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 23.93 million t
- Eastern Africa 12.85 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 12.76 million t
- Americas 8.49 million t
- Western Africa 7.65 million t
- South America 4.97 million t
- South-Eastern Asia 4.53 million t
- Caribbean 2.60 million t
- Côte d'Ivoire 2.47 million t
About this data
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.