Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Africa
Africa: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 5,099 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Africa recorded 5,099 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 11.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Africa peaked at 5,874 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 4,346 kg/ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,346 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,358 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1963 | 4,475 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1964 | 4,533 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1965 | 4,361 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1966 | 4,541 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1967 | 4,789 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1968 | 4,743 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1969 | 4,959 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1970 | 5,460 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1971 | 5,508 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 5,572 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 5,651 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 5,714 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1975 | 5,757 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1976 | 5,206 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1977 | 5,176 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1978 | 5,254 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1979 | 4,472 kg/ha | -14.9% |
| 1980 | 4,574 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1981 | 4,648 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1982 | 4,810 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1983 | 4,436 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1984 | 4,464 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1985 | 4,566 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1986 | 4,604 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1987 | 4,950 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1988 | 4,944 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1989 | 5,099 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1990 | 5,030 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1991 | 4,950 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1992 | 4,811 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1993 | 4,979 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1994 | 5,095 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1995 | 5,260 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1996 | 5,319 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1997 | 5,398 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1998 | 5,349 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1999 | 5,225 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2000 | 5,246 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 5,243 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 5,252 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 5,236 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 5,281 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2005 | 5,411 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 5,449 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 5,769 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2008 | 5,628 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2009 | 5,629 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 5,612 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2011 | 5,558 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2012 | 5,512 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2013 | 5,528 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 5,750 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2015 | 5,874 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2016 | 5,483 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2017 | 5,465 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 5,416 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2019 | 5,270 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2020 | 5,158 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2021 | 5,189 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 5,190 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 5,123 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2024 | 5,099 kg/ha | -0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,567 kg/ha | 4,346 kg/ha | 4,959 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,377 kg/ha | 4,472 kg/ha | 5,757 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,709 kg/ha | 4,436 kg/ha | 5,099 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,142 kg/ha | 4,811 kg/ha | 5,398 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,414 kg/ha | 5,236 kg/ha | 5,769 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,547 kg/ha | 5,270 kg/ha | 5,874 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,152 kg/ha | 5,099 kg/ha | 5,190 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Africa?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Africa was 5,099 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 5,874 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,346 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Africa rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Africa ranks 10th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield. 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.