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...
What the numbers show
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield is currently reported for 58 countries. The highest value is 37,219 kg/ha in Guyana; the lowest is 507.9 kg/ha in Micronesia (Federated States of).
The median across all reporting countries is 10,283 kg/ha, and the mean is 11,396 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 73.
Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 22 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guyana | 37,219 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.6% | 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 |
| 4 | Suriname | 25,565 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.1% | rising |
| 5 | Puerto Rico | 24,854 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 6 | Melanesia | 22,976 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1,109.2% | volatile |
| 7 | Martinique | 20,707 kg/ha | 2006 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 8 | Nicaragua | 20,573 kg/ha | 2023 | up 88.0% | rising |
| 9 | Jamaica | 18,819 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 10 | Sri Lanka | 18,317 kg/ha | 2024 | up 60.3% | volatile |
| 11 | Dominican Republic | 16,046 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.3% | rising |
| 12 | Belize | 16,001 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.4% | falling |
| 13 | Bangladesh | 15,745 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 14 | Guatemala | 15,204 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.4% | volatile |
| 15 | Panama | 15,026 kg/ha | 2024 | up 39.3% | rising |
| 16 | Saint Lucia | 14,035 kg/ha | 2024 | down 29.8% | rising |
| 17 | Myanmar | 13,956 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 18 | El Salvador | 13,750 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.6% | volatile |
| 19 | Kenya | 12,277 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.4% | volatile |
| 20 | Dominica | 12,105 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 21 | Peru | 11,928 kg/ha | 2009 | up 9.0% | falling |
| 22 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 11,812 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.3% | falling |
| 24 | Honduras | 11,636 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 25 | Philippines | 11,552 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.1% | flat |
| 26 | Costa Rica | 11,408 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.1% | falling |
| 27 | Ghana | 11,134 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 28 | Malawi | 10,800 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Guadeloupe | 10,452 kg/ha | 2006 | down 0.2% | falling |
| 30 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 10,446 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.5% | rising |
| 31 | Tonga | 10,121 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 32 | Sao Tome and Principe | 10,032 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 33 | Colombia | 9,430 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 34 | Cameroon | 8,646 kg/ha | 2024 | down 41.7% | rising |
| 35 | Polynesia | 8,356 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.9% | falling |
| 36 | Ecuador | 8,060 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.7% | falling |
| 37 | Grenada | 7,899 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 38 | Bahamas | 7,583 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.0% | flat |
| 39 | Nigeria | 7,500 kg/ha | 1990 | up 29.6% | rising |
| 40 | Congo | 7,314 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 41 | Cuba | 7,186 kg/ha | 2024 | down 36.1% | falling |
| 42 | French Guiana | 7,095 kg/ha | 2006 | up 3.2% | falling |
| 43 | Gabon | 6,948 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 44 | Haiti | 6,496 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 45 | Barbados | 6,013 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 46 | Sierra Leone | 5,551 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 47 | Guinea | 5,239 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 48 | Equatorial Guinea | 5,127 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 49 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 4,495 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.0% | falling |
| 50 | Uganda | 4,393 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.6% | falling |
| 51 | Côte d'Ivoire | 3,842 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 52 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3,504 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 53 | Guinea-Bissau | 3,181 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 54 | Liberia | 2,214 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 55 | New Caledonia | 1,940 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 56 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,815 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 57 | French Polynesia | 1,190 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 58 | Micronesia | 507.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 58 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 507.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.6% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Southern Asia 17,740 kg/ha
- Central America 15,844 kg/ha
- Asia 12,921 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 12,240 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 11,502 kg/ha
- Oceania 10,670 kg/ha
- Americas 10,642 kg/ha
- South America 9,590 kg/ha
- Western Africa 6,355 kg/ha
- World 6,169 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 5,791 kg/ha
- Africa 5,099 kg/ha
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.