Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome and Principe: Plantains and cooking bananas — Production was 41,230 t in 2024. ▬ Flat
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Sao Tome and Principe, 2016–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plantains and cooking bananas — production in Sao Tome and Principe is 41,230 t, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 6.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — production in Sao Tome and Principe peaked at 41,679 t in 2017 and was at its lowest, 38,662 t, in 2016.
Sao Tome and Principe ranks 31st of 51 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Production in Sao Tome and Principe, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 38,662 t | — |
| 2017 | 41,679 t | +7.8% |
| 2018 | 40,257 t | -3.4% |
| 2019 | 40,501 t | +0.6% |
| 2020 | 40,754 t | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 40,861 t | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 40,942 t | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 41,086 t | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 41,230 t | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 40,275 t | 38,662 t | 41,679 t | 4 |
| 2020s | 40,974 t | 40,754 t | 41,230 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sao Tome and Principe
- 28 Liberia 50,561 t compare
- 29 Sierra Leone 47,238 t compare
- 30 Equatorial Guinea 41,372 t compare
- 32 Central African Republic 37,783 t compare
- 33 Kenya 34,533 t compare
- 34 El Salvador 27,190 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sao Tome and Principe
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.45 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1219 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 497.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.02 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3083 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 12.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 12.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — production in Sao Tome and Principe?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — production in Sao Tome and Principe was 41,230 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Sao Tome and Principe?
- The highest recorded value was 41,679 t in 2017.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — production recorded in Sao Tome and Principe?
- The lowest recorded value was 38,662 t in 2016.
- How does Sao Tome and Principe rank for plantains and cooking bananas — production?
- Sao Tome and Principe ranks 31st out of 51 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — production rising or falling in Sao Tome and Principe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Sao Tome and Principe 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.