Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 11,740 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Caribbean stood at 11,740 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.3% on the previous year and down 13.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Caribbean peaked at 14,011 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 6,186 kg/ha, in 1994.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,245 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,478 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1963 | 7,572 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 7,573 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 7,536 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1966 | 7,712 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1967 | 7,370 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1968 | 7,801 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1969 | 8,510 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1970 | 7,844 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1971 | 8,228 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1972 | 8,689 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1973 | 8,484 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1974 | 8,408 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1975 | 8,208 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1976 | 8,668 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1977 | 8,412 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1978 | 8,895 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1979 | 8,189 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1980 | 8,580 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1981 | 8,223 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1982 | 8,079 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1983 | 8,090 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1984 | 8,367 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1985 | 8,236 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1986 | 8,550 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1987 | 8,554 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 8,498 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1989 | 8,566 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1990 | 7,260 kg/ha | -15.2% |
| 1991 | 7,669 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1992 | 7,059 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1993 | 7,407 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1994 | 6,186 kg/ha | -16.5% |
| 1995 | 6,526 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1996 | 7,266 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1997 | 6,293 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1998 | 6,762 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1999 | 7,129 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2000 | 7,932 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 2001 | 8,134 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 7,316 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2003 | 8,429 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 2004 | 8,473 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 7,774 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2006 | 8,787 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 2007 | 8,876 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2008 | 8,480 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2009 | 8,940 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2010 | 7,472 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 2011 | 11,096 kg/ha | +48.5% |
| 2012 | 12,493 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 2013 | 11,846 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2014 | 13,568 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2015 | 12,850 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2016 | 13,288 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2017 | 13,586 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2018 | 13,250 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2019 | 12,978 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2020 | 14,011 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2021 | 12,836 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2022 | 12,212 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2023 | 11,040 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 2024 | 11,740 kg/ha | +6.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Caribbean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | +48.5% | 7,472 kg/ha | 11,096 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,644 kg/ha | 7,245 kg/ha | 8,510 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,402 kg/ha | 7,844 kg/ha | 8,895 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,374 kg/ha | 8,079 kg/ha | 8,580 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,956 kg/ha | 6,186 kg/ha | 7,669 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,314 kg/ha | 7,316 kg/ha | 8,940 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,243 kg/ha | 7,472 kg/ha | 13,586 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,368 kg/ha | 11,040 kg/ha | 14,011 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 1 Guyana 37,219 kg/ha compare
- 1 Melanesia 22,976 kg/ha compare
- 2 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 34,463 kg/ha compare
- 3 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 11,812 kg/ha compare
- 3 Fiji 30,000 kg/ha compare
- 4 Suriname 25,565 kg/ha compare
- 5 Puerto Rico 24,854 kg/ha compare
- 5 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,446 kg/ha compare
- 6 Martinique 20,707 kg/ha compare
- 6 Polynesia 8,356 kg/ha compare
- 7 Nicaragua 20,573 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Caribbean?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Caribbean was 11,740 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 Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 14,011 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,186 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Caribbean rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 4th out of 15 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.