Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Central America
Central America: Plantains and cooking bananas — Production was 920,522 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — production in Central America stood at 920,522 t.
That represents a change of up 3.4% on the previous year and up 19.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — production in Central America peaked at 1.04 million t in 2021 and was at its lowest, 259,690 t, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Central America, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 259,690 t | — |
| 1962 | 269,740 t | +3.9% |
| 1963 | 283,610 t | +5.1% |
| 1964 | 298,480 t | +5.2% |
| 1965 | 285,140 t | -4.5% |
| 1966 | 288,089 t | +1.0% |
| 1967 | 323,193 t | +12.2% |
| 1968 | 341,828 t | +5.8% |
| 1969 | 368,492 t | +7.8% |
| 1970 | 341,073 t | -7.4% |
| 1971 | 353,958 t | +3.8% |
| 1972 | 379,172 t | +7.1% |
| 1973 | 403,558 t | +6.4% |
| 1974 | 390,800 t | -3.2% |
| 1975 | 384,826 t | -1.5% |
| 1976 | 400,113 t | +4.0% |
| 1977 | 415,771 t | +3.9% |
| 1978 | 417,958 t | +0.5% |
| 1979 | 421,034 t | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 414,282 t | -1.6% |
| 1981 | 411,963 t | -0.6% |
| 1982 | 420,979 t | +2.2% |
| 1983 | 392,996 t | -6.6% |
| 1984 | 367,303 t | -6.5% |
| 1985 | 374,932 t | +2.1% |
| 1986 | 392,594 t | +4.7% |
| 1987 | 405,489 t | +3.3% |
| 1988 | 405,466 t | -0.0% |
| 1989 | 550,673 t | +35.8% |
| 1990 | 631,411 t | +14.7% |
| 1991 | 682,762 t | +8.1% |
| 1992 | 689,368 t | +1.0% |
| 1993 | 698,541 t | +1.3% |
| 1994 | 696,239 t | -0.3% |
| 1995 | 723,864 t | +4.0% |
| 1996 | 706,452 t | -2.4% |
| 1997 | 663,739 t | -6.0% |
| 1998 | 640,819 t | -3.5% |
| 1999 | 574,686 t | -10.3% |
| 2000 | 616,530 t | +7.3% |
| 2001 | 624,650 t | +1.3% |
| 2002 | 646,916 t | +3.6% |
| 2003 | 691,599 t | +6.9% |
| 2004 | 682,175 t | -1.4% |
| 2005 | 590,206 t | -13.5% |
| 2006 | 615,531 t | +4.3% |
| 2007 | 618,057 t | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 634,379 t | +2.6% |
| 2009 | 634,523 t | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 549,357 t | -13.4% |
| 2011 | 554,776 t | +1.0% |
| 2012 | 607,858 t | +9.6% |
| 2013 | 664,866 t | +9.4% |
| 2014 | 768,536 t | +15.6% |
| 2015 | 808,402 t | +5.2% |
| 2016 | 950,450 t | +17.6% |
| 2017 | 1.00 million t | +5.6% |
| 2018 | 1.02 million t | +1.3% |
| 2019 | 859,644 t | -15.5% |
| 2020 | 863,954 t | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 1.04 million t | +20.9% |
| 2022 | 884,470 t | -15.3% |
| 2023 | 889,900 t | +0.6% |
| 2024 | 920,522 t | +3.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 302,029 t | 259,690 t | 368,492 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 390,826 t | 341,073 t | 421,034 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 413,668 t | 367,303 t | 550,673 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 670,788 t | 574,686 t | 723,864 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 635,457 t | 590,206 t | 691,599 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 778,476 t | 549,357 t | 1.02 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 920,715 t | 863,954 t | 1.04 million t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — production in Central America?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — production in Central America was 920,522 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 1.04 million t in 2021.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 259,690 t in 1961.
- How does Central America rank for plantains and cooking bananas — production?
- Central America ranks 14th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — production rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plantains and cooking bananas — Production. 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.