Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 8,646 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Cameroon stood at 8,646 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.9% on the previous year and down 41.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Cameroon peaked at 14,906 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 2,667 kg/ha, in 1984.
That places Cameroon 30th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,524 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,510 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1963 | 5,803 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1964 | 5,811 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1965 | 5,522 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1966 | 5,727 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1967 | 5,704 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1968 | 5,080 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1969 | 4,136 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 1970 | 4,058 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1971 | 4,131 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1972 | 5,014 kg/ha | +21.4% |
| 1973 | 4,750 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1974 | 5,184 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1975 | 4,737 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1976 | 4,800 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1977 | 5,082 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1978 | 5,790 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1979 | 5,353 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1980 | 5,231 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1981 | 5,282 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1982 | 5,208 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1983 | 2,738 kg/ha | -47.4% |
| 1984 | 2,667 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1985 | 3,079 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 1986 | 3,047 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1987 | 4,791 kg/ha | +57.2% |
| 1988 | 5,024 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1989 | 5,682 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 1990 | 5,115 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1991 | 5,322 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1992 | 5,463 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1993 | 5,600 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1994 | 5,505 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1995 | 5,436 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1996 | 5,560 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1997 | 5,643 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1998 | 6,796 kg/ha | +20.4% |
| 1999 | 6,110 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2000 | 6,132 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 6,206 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 5,321 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 2003 | 5,326 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 5,331 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 7,972 kg/ha | +49.5% |
| 2006 | 7,986 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 12,062 kg/ha | +51.0% |
| 2008 | 12,000 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2009 | 11,967 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2010 | 12,225 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2011 | 11,086 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2012 | 10,853 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2013 | 11,944 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2014 | 14,822 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 2015 | 14,906 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 9,407 kg/ha | -36.9% |
| 2017 | 9,212 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2018 | 9,227 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 9,614 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2020 | 8,872 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2021 | 8,865 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 9,255 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2023 | 8,810 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2024 | 8,646 kg/ha | -1.9% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 8,646 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 10,583 kg/ha, 82% of the median. (12 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 8,646 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 6,948 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (15 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Cameroon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | +57.2% | 3,047 kg/ha | 4,791 kg/ha |
| 2007 | +51.0% | 7,986 kg/ha | 12,062 kg/ha |
| 2005 | +49.5% | 5,331 kg/ha | 7,972 kg/ha |
| 1983 | -47.4% | 5,208 kg/ha | 2,738 kg/ha |
| 2016 | -36.9% | 14,906 kg/ha | 9,407 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,424 kg/ha | 4,136 kg/ha | 5,811 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,890 kg/ha | 4,058 kg/ha | 5,790 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,275 kg/ha | 2,667 kg/ha | 5,682 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,655 kg/ha | 5,115 kg/ha | 6,796 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,030 kg/ha | 5,321 kg/ha | 12,062 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,330 kg/ha | 9,212 kg/ha | 14,906 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,889 kg/ha | 8,646 kg/ha | 9,255 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Cameroon?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Cameroon was 8,646 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 Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 14,906 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,667 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Cameroon rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 30th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 41.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.