Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Guyana
Guyana: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 37,219 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Guyana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Guyana recorded 37,219 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.3% on the previous year and up 21.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Guyana peaked at 44,857 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 2,907 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Guyana 1st out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,451 kg/ha | 2,907 kg/ha | 4,483 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,183 kg/ha | 2,947 kg/ha | 3,363 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,433 kg/ha | 2,947 kg/ha | 3,661 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 25,834 kg/ha | 3,250 kg/ha | 28,991 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 30,063 kg/ha | 29,153 kg/ha | 31,515 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 33,968 kg/ha | 30,602 kg/ha | 44,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 36,733 kg/ha | 35,386 kg/ha | 37,717 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guyana
- 2 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 34,463 kg/ha compare
- 3 Fiji, Republic of 30,000 kg/ha compare
- 4 Suriname 25,565 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Guyana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 11.48 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0773 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 2,507 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5708 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7351 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 7.73 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.73 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Guyana?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Guyana was 37,219 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 Guyana?
- The highest recorded value was 44,857 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Guyana?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,907 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Guyana rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Guyana ranks 1st out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Guyana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Guyana 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.