Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 13,750 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in El Salvador, 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 El Salvador is 13,750 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 6.4% on the previous year and down 14.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in El Salvador peaked at 31,299 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 3,000 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places El Salvador 17th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 3,069 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1971 | 3,160 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1972 | 3,333 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1973 | 3,571 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1974 | 4,000 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1975 | 4,462 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1976 | 3,576 kg/ha | -19.9% |
| 1977 | 3,943 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1978 | 5,274 kg/ha | +33.8% |
| 1979 | 4,984 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1980 | 5,357 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1981 | 5,600 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1982 | 5,435 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1983 | 5,500 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1984 | 5,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 5,738 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1986 | 5,600 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1987 | 5,738 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1988 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1989 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 11,171 kg/ha | +94.3% |
| 1991 | 11,179 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1992 | 10,974 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1993 | 10,656 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1994 | 9,740 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1995 | 11,979 kg/ha | +23.0% |
| 1996 | 6,414 kg/ha | -46.5% |
| 1997 | 12,650 kg/ha | +97.2% |
| 1998 | 14,786 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1999 | 13,406 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2000 | 31,299 kg/ha | +133.5% |
| 2001 | 31,169 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2002 | 31,169 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 31,220 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 31,220 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 31,212 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2006 | 31,168 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2007 | 31,171 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 31,177 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 31,207 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 22,178 kg/ha | -28.9% |
| 2011 | 11,117 kg/ha | -49.9% |
| 2012 | 14,383 kg/ha | +29.4% |
| 2013 | 15,368 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2014 | 16,099 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2015 | 15,630 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2016 | 21,272 kg/ha | +36.1% |
| 2017 | 20,692 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2018 | 22,119 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2019 | 21,723 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2020 | 16,582 kg/ha | -23.7% |
| 2021 | 19,275 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 2022 | 15,825 kg/ha | -17.9% |
| 2023 | 14,692 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2024 | 13,750 kg/ha | -6.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,000 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,937 kg/ha | 3,069 kg/ha | 5,274 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,597 kg/ha | 5,357 kg/ha | 5,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,295 kg/ha | 6,414 kg/ha | 14,786 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 31,201 kg/ha | 31,168 kg/ha | 31,299 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,058 kg/ha | 11,117 kg/ha | 22,178 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,025 kg/ha | 13,750 kg/ha | 19,275 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in El Salvador?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in El Salvador was 13,750 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 El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 31,299 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,000 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does El Salvador rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 17th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.