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 34th out of 59 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.
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 share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
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 34th out of 59 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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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.