Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Dominica
Dominica: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 12,105 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Dominica, 1976–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominica is 12,105 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 49 years on record.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominica peaked at 12,105 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,056 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places Dominica 19th 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 49 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Dominica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6,714 kg/ha | — |
| 1977 | 6,858 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1978 | 6,882 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 7,570 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1980 | 6,720 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1981 | 7,390 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1982 | 7,452 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1983 | 6,056 kg/ha | -18.7% |
| 1984 | 6,652 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1985 | 7,913 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 1986 | 9,004 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1987 | 8,488 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1988 | 10,362 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 1989 | 9,325 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1990 | 6,056 kg/ha | -35.1% |
| 1991 | 9,603 kg/ha | +58.6% |
| 1992 | 10,056 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1993 | 11,567 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 1994 | 11,604 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1995 | 11,705 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1996 | 11,768 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1997 | 11,815 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1998 | 11,853 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1999 | 11,883 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 11,906 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 11,922 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 11,931 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 11,935 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 11,934 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2005 | 11,928 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2006 | 11,918 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2007 | 11,912 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2008 | 11,911 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2009 | 11,907 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2010 | 11,902 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2011 | 11,895 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 11,888 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 11,881 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 11,875 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 11,869 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 11,866 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2017 | 11,864 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 11,876 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 11,891 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 11,990 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 12,041 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 12,007 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2023 | 12,058 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 12,105 kg/ha | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7,006 kg/ha | 6,714 kg/ha | 7,570 kg/ha | 4 |
| 1980s | 7,936 kg/ha | 6,056 kg/ha | 10,362 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,791 kg/ha | 6,056 kg/ha | 11,883 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,920 kg/ha | 11,906 kg/ha | 11,935 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,881 kg/ha | 11,864 kg/ha | 11,902 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,040 kg/ha | 11,990 kg/ha | 12,105 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.04 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.121 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,330 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -2.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2601 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 12.1 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 12.1 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.2% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominica?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominica was 12,105 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 Dominica?
- The highest recorded value was 12,105 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Dominica?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,056 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Dominica rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Dominica ranks 19th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Dominica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Dominica 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.