Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Kenya
Kenya: Plantains and cooking bananas — Production was 34,533 t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Kenya recorded 34,533 t for plantains and cooking bananas — production in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 8.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — production in Kenya peaked at 100,000 t in 1964 and was at its lowest, 10,000 t, in 1961.
That places Kenya 33rd out of 51 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Kenya, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 100,000 t | +900.0% |
| 1965 | 10,000 t | -90.0% |
| 1966 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 10,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 12,000 t | +20.0% |
| 1976 | 12,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 12,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 12,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 20,000 t | +66.7% |
| 1980 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 18,000 t | -10.0% |
| 1989 | 20,000 t | +11.1% |
| 1990 | 22,500 t | +12.5% |
| 1991 | 22,500 t | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 25,000 t | +11.1% |
| 1993 | 21,000 t | -16.0% |
| 1994 | 20,000 t | -4.8% |
| 1995 | 15,000 t | -25.0% |
| 1996 | 16,000 t | +6.7% |
| 1997 | 27,000 t | +68.8% |
| 1998 | 29,000 t | +7.4% |
| 1999 | 28,000 t | -3.4% |
| 2000 | 27,000 t | -3.6% |
| 2001 | 28,000 t | +3.7% |
| 2002 | 28,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 25,000 t | -10.7% |
| 2004 | 26,000 t | +4.0% |
| 2005 | 26,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 28,000 t | +7.7% |
| 2007 | 26,000 t | -7.1% |
| 2008 | 31,000 t | +19.2% |
| 2009 | 32,000 t | +3.2% |
| 2010 | 35,000 t | +9.4% |
| 2011 | 31,000 t | -11.4% |
| 2012 | 30,000 t | -3.2% |
| 2013 | 31,000 t | +3.3% |
| 2014 | 31,839 t | +2.7% |
| 2015 | 32,530 t | +2.2% |
| 2016 | 33,100 t | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 33,542 t | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 33,744 t | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 33,976 t | +0.7% |
| 2020 | 34,455 t | +1.4% |
| 2021 | 34,058 t | -1.2% |
| 2022 | 35,027 t | +2.8% |
| 2023 | 34,514 t | -1.5% |
| 2024 | 34,533 t | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 20,000 t | 10,000 t | 100,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,800 t | 10,000 t | 20,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 19,800 t | 18,000 t | 20,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 22,600 t | 15,000 t | 29,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 27,700 t | 25,000 t | 32,000 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 32,573 t | 30,000 t | 35,000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 34,518 t | 34,058 t | 35,027 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
- 30 Equatorial Guinea 41,372 t compare
- 31 Sao Tome and Principe 41,230 t compare
- 32 Central African Republic 37,783 t compare
- 34 El Salvador 27,190 t compare
- 35 Martinique 15,804 t compare
- 36 Fiji 12,550 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2316 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 547.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6779 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — production in Kenya?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — production in Kenya was 34,533 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 100,000 t in 1964.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,000 t in 1961.
- How does Kenya rank for plantains and cooking bananas — production?
- Kenya ranks 33rd out of 51 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — production rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Kenya 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.