Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 3,181 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Guinea-Bissau, 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 Guinea-Bissau is 3,181 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 3,711 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 2,818 kg/ha, in 1989.
That places Guinea-Bissau 46th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Guinea-Bissau, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,143 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,143 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,143 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 3,000 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1965 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,875 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1967 | 2,875 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 2,875 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 2,875 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 2,875 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 3,000 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1972 | 3,012 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 3,012 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 3,012 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 3,059 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1976 | 3,059 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 3,111 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1978 | 3,059 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1979 | 3,111 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1980 | 3,000 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1981 | 3,011 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1982 | 3,011 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 3,011 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 2,990 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1985 | 2,990 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 2,990 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1988 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 2,818 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1990 | 3,711 kg/ha | +31.7% |
| 1991 | 2,877 kg/ha | -22.5% |
| 1992 | 2,883 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 2,895 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1994 | 2,897 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 2,899 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 2,902 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1997 | 2,903 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 2,916 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1999 | 2,879 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2000 | 2,918 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2001 | 2,923 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 2,932 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 2,889 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2004 | 2,982 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 3,031 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2006 | 3,078 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 3,214 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2008 | 3,200 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2009 | 3,137 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2010 | 3,130 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2011 | 3,123 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2012 | 3,091 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2013 | 3,121 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 3,149 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2015 | 3,169 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 3,174 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 3,175 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 3,179 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 3,184 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 3,180 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 3,181 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 3,181 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 3,181 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 3,181 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,992 kg/ha | 2,875 kg/ha | 3,143 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,031 kg/ha | 2,875 kg/ha | 3,111 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,982 kg/ha | 2,818 kg/ha | 3,011 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,976 kg/ha | 2,877 kg/ha | 3,711 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,030 kg/ha | 2,889 kg/ha | 3,214 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,150 kg/ha | 3,091 kg/ha | 3,184 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,181 kg/ha | 3,180 kg/ha | 3,181 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guinea-Bissau
- 43 Equatorial Guinea 5,127 kg/ha compare
- 44 Uganda 4,393 kg/ha compare
- 45 Trinidad and Tobago 3,504 kg/ha compare
- 47 Liberia 2,214 kg/ha compare
- 48 New Caledonia 1,940 kg/ha compare
- 49 French Polynesia 1,190 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Guinea-Bissau
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.4063 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 456.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5335 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 40.63 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 40.63 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 31.5% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Guinea-Bissau?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Guinea-Bissau was 3,181 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 Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 3,711 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,818 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 46th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau 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.