Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Gabon
Gabon: Plantains and cooking bananas — Production was 354,364 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Gabon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — production in Gabon stood at 354,364 t.
The figure is down 0.8% on the previous year and up 7.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — production in Gabon peaked at 357,275 t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 85,000 t, in 1961.
That places Gabon 15th out of 51 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Gabon, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 85,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 85,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 90,000 t | +5.9% |
| 1964 | 90,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 95,000 t | +5.6% |
| 1966 | 95,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 100,000 t | +5.3% |
| 1968 | 100,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 110,000 t | +10.0% |
| 1970 | 110,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 115,000 t | +4.5% |
| 1972 | 115,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 120,000 t | +4.3% |
| 1974 | 120,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 122,000 t | +1.7% |
| 1976 | 125,000 t | +2.5% |
| 1977 | 138,000 t | +10.4% |
| 1978 | 151,800 t | +10.0% |
| 1979 | 163,000 t | +7.4% |
| 1980 | 175,200 t | +7.5% |
| 1981 | 157,000 t | -10.4% |
| 1982 | 180,000 t | +14.6% |
| 1983 | 200,000 t | +11.1% |
| 1984 | 220,000 t | +10.0% |
| 1985 | 224,000 t | +1.8% |
| 1986 | 230,000 t | +2.7% |
| 1987 | 220,000 t | -4.3% |
| 1988 | 230,000 t | +4.5% |
| 1989 | 235,000 t | +2.2% |
| 1990 | 220,000 t | -6.4% |
| 1991 | 291,000 t | +32.3% |
| 1992 | 253,000 t | -13.1% |
| 1993 | 238,000 t | -5.9% |
| 1994 | 244,000 t | +2.5% |
| 1995 | 237,000 t | -2.9% |
| 1996 | 258,000 t | +8.9% |
| 1997 | 263,300 t | +2.1% |
| 1998 | 274,000 t | +4.1% |
| 1999 | 265,000 t | -3.3% |
| 2000 | 270,000 t | +1.9% |
| 2001 | 268,000 t | -0.7% |
| 2002 | 269,300 t | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 270,000 t | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 270,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 269,800 t | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 273,000 t | +1.2% |
| 2007 | 275,000 t | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 290,941 t | +5.8% |
| 2009 | 297,915 t | +2.4% |
| 2010 | 303,087 t | +1.7% |
| 2011 | 329,489 t | +8.7% |
| 2012 | 288,666 t | -12.4% |
| 2013 | 312,255 t | +8.2% |
| 2014 | 330,000 t | +5.7% |
| 2015 | 330,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 340,000 t | +3.0% |
| 2017 | 340,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 350,000 t | +2.9% |
| 2019 | 350,442 t | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 350,544 t | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 351,225 t | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 354,592 t | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 357,275 t | +0.8% |
| 2024 | 354,364 t | -0.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 94,444 t | 85,000 t | 110,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 127,980 t | 110,000 t | 163,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 207,120 t | 157,000 t | 235,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 254,330 t | 220,000 t | 291,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 275,396 t | 268,000 t | 297,915 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 327,394 t | 288,666 t | 350,442 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 353,600 t | 350,544 t | 357,275 t | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Gabon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0675 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 557.95 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6835 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0791 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 6.75 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.75 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — production in Gabon?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — production in Gabon was 354,364 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Gabon?
- The highest recorded value was 357,275 t in 2023.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Gabon?
- The lowest recorded value was 85,000 t in 1961.
- How does Gabon rank for plantains and cooking bananas — production?
- Gabon ranks 15th out of 51 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — production rising or falling in Gabon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gabon 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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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.