Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Colombia
Colombia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 9,430 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Colombia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Colombia stood at 9,430 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.7% on the previous year and up 8.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Colombia peaked at 9,430 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,670 kg/ha, in 1971.
That places Colombia 29th 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 Colombia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,804 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,829 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1963 | 6,832 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 6,837 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1965 | 8,117 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1966 | 6,326 kg/ha | -22.1% |
| 1967 | 6,915 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1968 | 6,956 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 6,875 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1970 | 7,042 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1971 | 4,670 kg/ha | -33.7% |
| 1972 | 4,810 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1973 | 5,060 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1974 | 5,120 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1975 | 5,254 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1976 | 5,446 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1977 | 4,774 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1978 | 5,479 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1979 | 5,425 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1980 | 5,428 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 5,543 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1982 | 5,558 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1983 | 6,248 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1984 | 5,932 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1985 | 5,847 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1986 | 6,386 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1987 | 6,710 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1988 | 6,397 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1989 | 6,013 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1990 | 7,151 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 1991 | 7,233 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1992 | 7,162 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1993 | 6,768 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1994 | 6,479 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1995 | 7,377 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1996 | 6,935 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1997 | 7,097 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1998 | 6,735 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1999 | 6,904 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2000 | 7,229 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2001 | 7,731 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2002 | 7,848 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2003 | 7,564 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2004 | 7,852 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2005 | 7,887 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 8,195 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2007 | 8,156 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 8,161 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 7,871 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2010 | 8,077 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2011 | 7,962 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2012 | 8,105 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2013 | 8,423 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2014 | 8,676 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2015 | 8,832 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2016 | 8,657 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2017 | 7,434 kg/ha | -14.1% |
| 2018 | 8,126 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2019 | 8,720 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2020 | 8,712 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 8,652 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 9,022 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2023 | 9,273 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2024 | 9,430 kg/ha | +1.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,943 kg/ha | 6,326 kg/ha | 8,117 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,308 kg/ha | 4,670 kg/ha | 7,042 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,006 kg/ha | 5,428 kg/ha | 6,710 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,984 kg/ha | 6,479 kg/ha | 7,377 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,849 kg/ha | 7,229 kg/ha | 8,195 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,301 kg/ha | 7,434 kg/ha | 8,832 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,018 kg/ha | 8,652 kg/ha | 9,430 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0995 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 851.52 current US$ per person (2025)
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- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Colombia?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Colombia was 9,430 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 Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 9,430 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,670 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Colombia rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Colombia ranks 29th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Colombia 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.