Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 16,046 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Dominican Republic, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominican Republic stood at 16,046 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.3% on the previous year and down 26.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominican Republic peaked at 25,639 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 7,131 kg/ha, in 1994.
Dominican Republic ranks 10th of 50 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Dominican Republic, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,001 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,504 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1963 | 8,500 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1964 | 8,490 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1965 | 8,496 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1966 | 8,507 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 8,007 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1968 | 7,994 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1969 | 8,807 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1970 | 8,795 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1971 | 9,004 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1972 | 9,003 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 8,807 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1974 | 8,999 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1975 | 8,498 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1976 | 9,001 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1977 | 9,008 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1978 | 9,502 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1979 | 9,002 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1980 | 9,494 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1981 | 9,470 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1982 | 9,494 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1983 | 9,498 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 9,505 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1985 | 9,494 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1986 | 10,000 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1987 | 11,015 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1988 | 11,029 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1989 | 11,078 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1990 | 9,888 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 1991 | 10,806 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1992 | 7,923 kg/ha | -26.7% |
| 1993 | 10,502 kg/ha | +32.6% |
| 1994 | 7,131 kg/ha | -32.1% |
| 1995 | 8,938 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1996 | 8,185 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1997 | 7,208 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 1998 | 7,986 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1999 | 9,732 kg/ha | +21.9% |
| 2000 | 9,427 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2001 | 8,472 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2002 | 7,870 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2003 | 8,123 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2004 | 8,592 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2005 | 10,414 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 2006 | 12,200 kg/ha | +17.2% |
| 2007 | 10,777 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 2008 | 9,497 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 2009 | 12,326 kg/ha | +29.8% |
| 2010 | 10,977 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2011 | 17,343 kg/ha | +58.0% |
| 2012 | 18,378 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2013 | 19,994 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2014 | 21,781 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2015 | 19,591 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2016 | 20,903 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2017 | 21,791 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2018 | 21,054 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2019 | 20,979 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2020 | 25,639 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 2021 | 22,214 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 2022 | 15,618 kg/ha | -29.7% |
| 2023 | 15,680 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 16,046 kg/ha | +2.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,367 kg/ha | 7,994 kg/ha | 8,807 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,962 kg/ha | 8,498 kg/ha | 9,502 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,008 kg/ha | 9,470 kg/ha | 11,078 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,830 kg/ha | 7,131 kg/ha | 10,806 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,770 kg/ha | 7,870 kg/ha | 12,326 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,279 kg/ha | 10,977 kg/ha | 21,791 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,039 kg/ha | 15,618 kg/ha | 25,639 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.046 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 509.02 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4279 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2748 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominican Republic?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Dominican Republic was 16,046 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 Dominican Republic?
- The highest recorded value was 25,639 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Dominican Republic?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,131 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Dominican Republic rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Dominican Republic ranks 10th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Dominican Republic?
- Over the last ten years it is down 26.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Dominican Republic 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.