Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 8,060 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Ecuador, 1961–2024
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 Ecuador is 8,060 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 14.7% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Ecuador peaked at 20,776 kg/ha in 1962 and was at its lowest, 3,046 kg/ha, in 2000.
Ecuador ranks 31st 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,397 kg/ha | 10,017 kg/ha | 20,776 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,690 kg/ha | 5,381 kg/ha | 12,663 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,430 kg/ha | 9,925 kg/ha | 13,812 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,591 kg/ha | 8,260 kg/ha | 11,836 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,640 kg/ha | 3,046 kg/ha | 9,035 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,080 kg/ha | 4,838 kg/ha | 7,679 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,007 kg/ha | 5,648 kg/ha | 8,060 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.59 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.097 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 691.36 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4287 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3661 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Ecuador?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Ecuador was 8,060 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 Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 20,776 kg/ha in 1962.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,046 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does Ecuador rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 31st out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ecuador 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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About this data
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.