Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield 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...

Countries reporting
60
Highest
37,219 kg/ha
Guyana
Lowest
873.5 kg/ha
Central African Republic
Median
10,283 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,254

What the numbers show

Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 37,219 kg/ha in Guyana; the lowest is 873.5 kg/ha in Central African Republic.

The median across all reporting countries is 10,283 kg/ha, and the mean is 11,227 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 43.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Melanesia (up 1,109.2%), and the largest decrease in Cameroon (down 41.7%).

Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Guyana 37,219 kg/ha 2024 up 21.6% volatile
1 Melanesia 22,976 kg/ha 2024 up 1,109.2% volatile
2 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 34,463 kg/ha 2024 up 8.1% volatile
3 Fiji 30,000 kg/ha 2024 up 100.0% rising
3 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 11,812 kg/ha 2024 up 8.3% falling
4 Suriname 25,565 kg/ha 2024 down 19.1% rising
4 Caribbean 11,740 kg/ha 2024 down 13.5% rising
5 Puerto Rico 24,854 kg/ha 2024 up 17.8% rising
5 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,446 kg/ha 2024 down 2.5% rising
6 Martinique 20,707 kg/ha 2006 up 3.5% rising
6 Polynesia 8,356 kg/ha 2024 up 20.9% falling
7 Nicaragua 20,573 kg/ha 2023 up 88.0% rising
8 Jamaica 18,819 kg/ha 2024 up 1.1% rising
9 Sri Lanka 18,317 kg/ha 2024 up 60.3% volatile
9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,495 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% falling
10 Dominican Republic 16,046 kg/ha 2024 down 26.3% rising
10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,815 kg/ha 2024 down 7.7% falling
11 Belize 16,001 kg/ha 2024 down 8.4% falling
11 Micronesia 507.9 kg/ha 2024 down 5.6% falling
11 Micronesia (Federated States of) 507.9 kg/ha 2024 down 5.6% falling
12 Bangladesh 15,745 kg/ha 2024 up 12.5% rising
13 Guatemala 15,204 kg/ha 2024 down 21.4% volatile
14 Panama 15,026 kg/ha 2024 up 39.3% rising
15 Saint Lucia 14,035 kg/ha 2024 down 29.8% rising
15 Côte d'Ivoire 3,842 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
16 Myanmar 13,956 kg/ha 2024 up 1.5% rising
17 El Salvador 13,750 kg/ha 2024 down 14.6% volatile
18 Kenya 12,277 kg/ha 2024 up 2.4% volatile
19 Dominica 12,105 kg/ha 2024 up 1.9% rising
20 Peru 11,928 kg/ha 2009 up 9.0% falling
21 Honduras 11,636 kg/ha 2024 down 3.7% falling
22 Philippines 11,552 kg/ha 2024 down 5.1% flat
23 Costa Rica 11,408 kg/ha 2024 up 14.1% falling
24 Ghana 11,134 kg/ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
25 Malawi 10,800 kg/ha 2024 up 5.7% volatile
26 Guadeloupe 10,452 kg/ha 2006 down 0.2% falling
27 Tonga 10,121 kg/ha 2024 down 0.9% falling
28 Sao Tome and Principe 10,032 kg/ha 2024 up 1.2% flat
29 Colombia 9,430 kg/ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
30 Cameroon 8,646 kg/ha 2024 down 41.7% rising
31 Ecuador 8,060 kg/ha 2024 up 10.7% falling
32 Grenada 7,899 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
33 Bahamas 7,583 kg/ha 2024 down 1.0% flat
34 Nigeria 7,500 kg/ha 1990 up 29.6% rising
35 Congo 7,314 kg/ha 2024 down 1.3% rising
36 Cuba 7,186 kg/ha 2024 down 36.1% falling
37 French Guiana 7,095 kg/ha 2006 up 3.2% falling
38 Gabon 6,948 kg/ha 2024 up 11.6% rising
39 Haiti 6,496 kg/ha 2024 up 4.4% rising
40 Barbados 6,013 kg/ha 2024 down 0.4% flat
41 Sierra Leone 5,551 kg/ha 2024 up 1.2% rising
42 Guinea 5,239 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% rising
43 Equatorial Guinea 5,127 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% flat
44 Uganda 4,393 kg/ha 2024 down 6.6% falling
45 Trinidad and Tobago 3,504 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% falling
46 Guinea-Bissau 3,181 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% rising
47 Liberia 2,214 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% rising
48 New Caledonia 1,940 kg/ha 2024 up 2.1% volatile
49 French Polynesia 1,190 kg/ha 2024 up 13.3% rising
50 Central African Republic 873.5 kg/ha 2024 down 9.2% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 4,254 data points, 1961–2024
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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.