Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Jamaica
Jamaica: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 18,819 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Jamaica, 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 Jamaica is 18,819 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 2.3% on the previous year and up 1.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Jamaica peaked at 20,401 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 8,409 kg/ha, in 1968.
Jamaica ranks 8th of 50 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Jamaica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,848 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1963 | 10,000 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1964 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 9,693 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1966 | 12,435 kg/ha | +28.3% |
| 1967 | 8,729 kg/ha | -29.8% |
| 1968 | 8,409 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1969 | 10,380 kg/ha | +23.4% |
| 1970 | 9,644 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1971 | 10,459 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1972 | 10,076 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1973 | 9,143 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1974 | 10,208 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1975 | 8,882 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 1976 | 8,925 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1977 | 9,168 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1978 | 8,703 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1979 | 9,196 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1980 | 11,752 kg/ha | +27.8% |
| 1981 | 11,568 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1982 | 11,652 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1983 | 11,297 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1984 | 12,560 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1985 | 12,568 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1986 | 13,067 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1987 | 13,101 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1988 | 13,086 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1989 | 13,000 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1990 | 13,873 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1991 | 13,570 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1992 | 15,523 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 1993 | 17,118 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1994 | 17,015 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1995 | 17,178 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1996 | 16,657 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1997 | 16,110 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1998 | 16,356 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1999 | 16,948 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2000 | 16,982 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 17,928 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2002 | 17,713 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2003 | 17,788 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2004 | 17,209 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2005 | 17,217 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 17,500 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 17,383 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2008 | 17,183 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2009 | 18,582 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2010 | 18,830 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2011 | 20,401 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2012 | 18,002 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 2013 | 18,415 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2014 | 18,621 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 18,383 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 19,034 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2017 | 19,270 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 19,586 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2019 | 19,350 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2020 | 19,312 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 19,465 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 19,845 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2023 | 19,269 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2024 | 18,819 kg/ha | -2.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,944 kg/ha | 8,409 kg/ha | 12,435 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,440 kg/ha | 8,703 kg/ha | 10,459 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,365 kg/ha | 11,297 kg/ha | 13,101 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,035 kg/ha | 13,570 kg/ha | 17,178 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 17,549 kg/ha | 16,982 kg/ha | 18,582 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,989 kg/ha | 18,002 kg/ha | 20,401 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,342 kg/ha | 18,819 kg/ha | 19,845 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Jamaica
- 5 Puerto Rico 24,854 kg/ha compare
- 6 Martinique 20,707 kg/ha compare
- 7 Nicaragua 20,573 kg/ha compare
- 9 Sri Lanka 18,317 kg/ha compare
- 10 Dominican Republic 16,046 kg/ha compare
- 11 Belize 16,001 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0874 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 699.7 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4057 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 8.74 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.74 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Jamaica?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Jamaica was 18,819 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 Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 20,401 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,409 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Jamaica rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Jamaica ranks 8th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.