Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Cuba
Cuba: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 7,186 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Cuba, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Cuba recorded 7,186 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 21.8% on the previous year and down 36.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Cuba peaked at 24,796 kg/ha in 1969 and was at its lowest, 3,628 kg/ha, in 1989.
Cuba ranks 36th of 50 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Cuba, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,977 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,057 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1963 | 7,317 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1964 | 7,926 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1965 | 7,363 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1966 | 7,564 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1967 | 6,880 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1968 | 14,796 kg/ha | +115.0% |
| 1969 | 24,796 kg/ha | +67.6% |
| 1970 | 5,863 kg/ha | -76.4% |
| 1971 | 8,467 kg/ha | +44.4% |
| 1972 | 14,768 kg/ha | +74.4% |
| 1973 | 11,671 kg/ha | -21.0% |
| 1974 | 9,654 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 1975 | 10,461 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1976 | 13,523 kg/ha | +29.3% |
| 1977 | 9,110 kg/ha | -32.6% |
| 1978 | 12,622 kg/ha | +38.6% |
| 1979 | 7,869 kg/ha | -37.7% |
| 1980 | 9,990 kg/ha | +27.0% |
| 1981 | 5,715 kg/ha | -42.8% |
| 1982 | 4,610 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 1983 | 5,442 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 1984 | 7,046 kg/ha | +29.5% |
| 1985 | 6,643 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1986 | 7,059 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1987 | 4,878 kg/ha | -30.9% |
| 1988 | 5,051 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1989 | 3,628 kg/ha | -28.2% |
| 1990 | 3,794 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1991 | 3,854 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1992 | 5,543 kg/ha | +43.8% |
| 1993 | 4,796 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1994 | 4,060 kg/ha | -15.3% |
| 1995 | 4,187 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 6,229 kg/ha | +48.8% |
| 1997 | 4,739 kg/ha | -23.9% |
| 1998 | 5,579 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1999 | 5,956 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2000 | 7,136 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 2001 | 7,977 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2002 | 6,431 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 2003 | 8,513 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 2004 | 8,553 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 6,310 kg/ha | -26.2% |
| 2006 | 7,160 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 2007 | 8,165 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 2008 | 7,928 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2009 | 5,791 kg/ha | -27.0% |
| 2010 | 5,277 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2011 | 8,813 kg/ha | +67.0% |
| 2012 | 10,928 kg/ha | +24.0% |
| 2013 | 9,209 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 2014 | 11,242 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 2015 | 11,202 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2016 | 11,222 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 11,222 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 11,200 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 10,230 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2020 | 9,315 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2021 | 8,884 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2022 | 10,373 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 2023 | 5,899 kg/ha | -43.1% |
| 2024 | 7,186 kg/ha | +21.8% |
Cuba compared with similar countries
- Cuba's 7,186 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 12,928 kg/ha, 56% of the median. (20 countries reporting)
- Cuba's 7,186 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 12,928 kg/ha, 56% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,075 kg/ha | 6,880 kg/ha | 24,796 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,401 kg/ha | 5,863 kg/ha | 14,768 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,006 kg/ha | 3,628 kg/ha | 9,990 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,874 kg/ha | 3,794 kg/ha | 6,229 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,396 kg/ha | 5,791 kg/ha | 8,553 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,055 kg/ha | 5,277 kg/ha | 11,242 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,331 kg/ha | 5,899 kg/ha | 10,373 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -19.64 % change on previous year (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0276 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 265.29 current US$ per person (2020)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6522 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2277 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Cuba?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Cuba was 7,186 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 Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 24,796 kg/ha in 1969.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,628 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Cuba rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Cuba ranks 36th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 36.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cuba 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.