Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Central America
Central America: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 15,844 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 15,844 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 11.7% on the previous year and up 19.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Central America peaked at 16,611 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 10,582 kg/ha, in 1983.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 12,511 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 12,719 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1963 | 12,521 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1964 | 12,500 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1965 | 12,788 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1966 | 13,252 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1967 | 13,886 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1968 | 14,979 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1969 | 15,574 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1970 | 13,698 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1971 | 13,974 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1972 | 14,337 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1973 | 14,587 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1974 | 14,145 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1975 | 13,746 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1976 | 13,763 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1977 | 13,295 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1978 | 13,151 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1979 | 13,331 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1980 | 13,929 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1981 | 14,404 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1982 | 11,502 kg/ha | -20.1% |
| 1983 | 10,582 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1984 | 12,254 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1985 | 11,283 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1986 | 11,674 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1987 | 12,025 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1988 | 11,072 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1989 | 16,102 kg/ha | +45.4% |
| 1990 | 15,745 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1991 | 15,496 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1992 | 15,107 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1993 | 15,234 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1994 | 16,080 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1995 | 16,368 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1996 | 15,336 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1997 | 15,178 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1998 | 14,486 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1999 | 14,676 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2000 | 16,611 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 2001 | 14,433 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 2002 | 13,733 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2003 | 14,735 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2004 | 14,797 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 13,500 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 2006 | 12,548 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2007 | 12,995 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2008 | 13,977 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2009 | 14,066 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 12,139 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 2011 | 11,986 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2012 | 12,478 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2013 | 13,056 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2014 | 13,296 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2015 | 14,219 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2016 | 15,437 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 2017 | 15,658 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 15,819 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 14,531 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2020 | 14,959 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2021 | 14,622 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2022 | 13,962 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2023 | 14,187 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2024 | 15,844 kg/ha | +11.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,414 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 15,574 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,803 kg/ha | 13,151 kg/ha | 14,587 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,483 kg/ha | 10,582 kg/ha | 16,102 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,370 kg/ha | 14,486 kg/ha | 16,368 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,139 kg/ha | 12,548 kg/ha | 16,611 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,862 kg/ha | 11,986 kg/ha | 15,819 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,715 kg/ha | 13,962 kg/ha | 15,844 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
- 1 Guyana 37,219 kg/ha compare
- 2 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 34,463 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
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 1.23 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production, annual growth rate 0.5695 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield, annual growth rate 2.6 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested, annual growth rate -1.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 4.42 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production, annual 5.5 % change on previous year (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks, annual growth rate 1.7 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Area harvested 167,359 ha (2024)
- Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs — Yield/Carcass Weight 4 kg/An (2024)
- Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs — Production 12,410 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Central America?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Central America was 15,844 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 Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 16,611 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,582 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Central America rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Central America ranks 2nd out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.