Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Ghana
Ghana: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 11,134 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 11,134 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 5.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Ghana peaked at 11,185 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 5,075 kg/ha, in 1985.
Ghana ranks 24th of 50 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Ghana, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,454 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 5,417 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1964 | 5,417 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 5,440 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1966 | 5,480 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1967 | 5,489 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1968 | 5,479 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1969 | 5,480 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 5,480 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 5,467 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1972 | 5,484 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1973 | 5,471 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1974 | 5,472 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 5,420 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1976 | 5,953 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1977 | 5,518 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1978 | 5,602 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1979 | 5,640 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 5,968 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1981 | 6,477 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1982 | 5,411 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 1983 | 5,280 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1984 | 5,251 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1985 | 5,075 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1986 | 5,700 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1987 | 5,707 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1988 | 5,687 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1989 | 5,702 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1990 | 6,189 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1991 | 6,791 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1992 | 6,887 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1993 | 8,043 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1994 | 8,036 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1995 | 7,706 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1996 | 7,971 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1997 | 8,089 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1998 | 7,778 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1999 | 8,101 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2000 | 7,907 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2001 | 7,823 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2002 | 8,230 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2003 | 8,128 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2004 | 8,467 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2005 | 9,628 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2006 | 9,699 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 10,592 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2008 | 10,704 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 10,966 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2010 | 10,787 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2011 | 10,757 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2012 | 10,544 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2013 | 10,840 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2014 | 10,605 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2015 | 10,900 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2016 | 11,032 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2017 | 11,122 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 11,185 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 11,117 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2020 | 11,124 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 11,143 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 11,128 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 11,132 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 11,134 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,457 kg/ha | 5,417 kg/ha | 5,489 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,551 kg/ha | 5,420 kg/ha | 5,953 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,626 kg/ha | 5,075 kg/ha | 6,477 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,559 kg/ha | 6,189 kg/ha | 8,101 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,214 kg/ha | 7,823 kg/ha | 10,966 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,889 kg/ha | 10,544 kg/ha | 11,185 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,132 kg/ha | 11,124 kg/ha | 11,143 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
- 21 Honduras 11,636 kg/ha compare
- 22 Philippines 11,552 kg/ha compare
- 23 Costa Rica 11,408 kg/ha compare
- 25 Malawi 10,800 kg/ha compare
- 26 Guadeloupe 10,452 kg/ha compare
- 27 Tonga 10,121 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 41.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2128 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 692.99 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4821 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4108 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 21.28 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.28 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Ghana?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Ghana was 11,134 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 Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 11,185 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,075 kg/ha in 1985.
- How does Ghana rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Ghana ranks 24th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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.