Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 4,207 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Eastern Africa stood at 4,207 kg/ha.
The figure is down 0.4% on the previous year and down 1.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 7,637 kg/ha in 1973 and was at its lowest, 4,002 kg/ha, in 2016.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,328 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,374 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1963 | 5,432 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1964 | 5,466 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1965 | 5,539 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1966 | 5,862 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1967 | 6,229 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1968 | 5,934 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1969 | 6,536 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1970 | 7,236 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1971 | 7,484 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1972 | 7,560 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1973 | 7,637 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1974 | 7,612 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1975 | 7,562 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1976 | 6,164 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 1977 | 6,156 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1978 | 6,177 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1979 | 4,391 kg/ha | -28.9% |
| 1980 | 4,470 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1981 | 4,584 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1982 | 5,002 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1983 | 4,884 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1984 | 4,720 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1985 | 4,866 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1986 | 4,934 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1987 | 5,037 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1988 | 5,089 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1989 | 5,170 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1990 | 5,157 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1991 | 5,202 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1992 | 4,935 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1993 | 5,078 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1994 | 5,230 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1995 | 5,522 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1996 | 5,573 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 5,609 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 5,462 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1999 | 5,386 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2000 | 5,443 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2001 | 5,395 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2002 | 5,405 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 5,370 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2004 | 5,378 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 5,029 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2006 | 5,031 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 5,117 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 4,205 kg/ha | -17.8% |
| 2009 | 4,356 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2010 | 4,364 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 4,356 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2012 | 4,199 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2013 | 4,116 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2014 | 4,252 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2015 | 4,418 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2016 | 4,002 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2017 | 4,121 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2018 | 4,190 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 4,256 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 4,262 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 4,250 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2022 | 4,235 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2023 | 4,223 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 4,207 kg/ha | -0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,744 kg/ha | 5,328 kg/ha | 6,536 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,798 kg/ha | 4,391 kg/ha | 7,637 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,875 kg/ha | 4,470 kg/ha | 5,170 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,315 kg/ha | 4,935 kg/ha | 5,609 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,073 kg/ha | 4,205 kg/ha | 5,443 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,227 kg/ha | 4,002 kg/ha | 4,418 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,235 kg/ha | 4,207 kg/ha | 4,262 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 11 Belize 16,001 kg/ha compare
- 12 Bangladesh 15,745 kg/ha compare
- 13 Guatemala 15,204 kg/ha compare
- 14 Panama 15,026 kg/ha compare
- 15 Saint Lucia 14,035 kg/ha compare
- 16 Myanmar 13,956 kg/ha compare
- 17 El Salvador 13,750 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Eastern Africa was 4,207 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 Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 7,637 kg/ha in 1973.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,002 kg/ha in 2016.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 14th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.