Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Belize
Belize: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 16,001 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Belize, 1989–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Belize recorded 16,001 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.2% on the previous year and down 8.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Belize peaked at 55,486 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 9,217 kg/ha, in 1998.
That places Belize 11th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 36 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Belize, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 20,626 kg/ha | — |
| 1990 | 16,235 kg/ha | -21.3% |
| 1991 | 26,872 kg/ha | +65.5% |
| 1992 | 36,298 kg/ha | +35.1% |
| 1993 | 38,249 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1994 | 40,540 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1995 | 48,829 kg/ha | +20.4% |
| 1996 | 48,018 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1997 | 10,369 kg/ha | -78.4% |
| 1998 | 9,217 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1999 | 26,640 kg/ha | +189.0% |
| 2000 | 50,707 kg/ha | +90.3% |
| 2001 | 32,338 kg/ha | -36.2% |
| 2002 | 23,944 kg/ha | -26.0% |
| 2003 | 19,873 kg/ha | -17.0% |
| 2004 | 22,892 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 2005 | 21,050 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2006 | 35,656 kg/ha | +69.4% |
| 2007 | 16,342 kg/ha | -54.2% |
| 2008 | 35,221 kg/ha | +115.5% |
| 2009 | 55,486 kg/ha | +57.5% |
| 2010 | 18,468 kg/ha | -66.7% |
| 2011 | 20,598 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 2012 | 18,879 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 2013 | 18,431 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2014 | 17,466 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2015 | 18,117 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2016 | 18,393 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2017 | 19,616 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2018 | 21,095 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2019 | 16,652 kg/ha | -21.1% |
| 2020 | 16,321 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2021 | 18,257 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 2022 | 13,793 kg/ha | -24.5% |
| 2023 | 15,502 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2024 | 16,001 kg/ha | +3.2% |
Belize compared with similar countries
- Belize's 16,001 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 12,928 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (20 countries reporting)
- Belize's 16,001 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 12,928 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (24 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Belize changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +189.0% | 9,217 kg/ha | 26,640 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 20,626 kg/ha | 20,626 kg/ha | 20,626 kg/ha | 1 |
| 1990s | 30,127 kg/ha | 9,217 kg/ha | 48,829 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 31,351 kg/ha | 16,342 kg/ha | 55,486 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,772 kg/ha | 16,652 kg/ha | 21,095 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,975 kg/ha | 13,793 kg/ha | 18,257 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Belize
- 8 Jamaica 18,819 kg/ha compare
- 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,495 kg/ha compare
- 9 Sri Lanka 18,317 kg/ha compare
- 10 Dominican Republic 16,046 kg/ha compare
- 10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,815 kg/ha compare
- 11 Micronesia (Federated States of) 507.9 kg/ha compare
- 11 Micronesia 507.9 kg/ha compare
- 12 Bangladesh 15,745 kg/ha compare
- 13 Guatemala 15,204 kg/ha compare
- 14 Panama 15,026 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Belize
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0795 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 610.5 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.74 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5844 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.9% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Belize?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Belize was 16,001 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 Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 55,486 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,217 kg/ha in 1998.
- How does Belize rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Belize ranks 11th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Belize 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.