Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 12,277 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Kenya stood at 12,277 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Kenya peaked at 100,000 kg/ha in 1964 and was at its lowest, 10,000 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Kenya 18th 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 Kenya, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 100,000 kg/ha | +900.0% |
| 1965 | 10,000 kg/ha | -90.0% |
| 1966 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 12,000 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1976 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 20,000 kg/ha | +66.7% |
| 1980 | 12,500 kg/ha | -37.5% |
| 1981 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 12,857 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1989 | 12,500 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1990 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 12,353 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1994 | 12,500 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1995 | 12,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 12,308 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1997 | 12,273 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1998 | 12,609 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1999 | 12,727 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2000 | 12,857 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2001 | 12,174 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2002 | 12,174 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 12,500 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2004 | 12,381 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2005 | 12,381 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 12,174 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2007 | 12,381 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 12,400 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 12,308 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2010 | 12,500 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2011 | 12,400 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2012 | 12,000 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2013 | 11,923 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2014 | 11,987 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 12,207 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2016 | 12,230 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 12,197 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 12,167 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 12,144 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2020 | 12,127 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 12,146 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 12,446 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2023 | 12,239 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 12,277 kg/ha | +0.3% |
Kenya compared with similar countries
- Kenya's 12,277 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 10,583 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (12 countries reporting)
- Kenya's 12,277 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 6,948 kg/ha, 1.8× the median. (15 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Kenya changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | +900.0% | 10,000 kg/ha | 100,000 kg/ha |
| 1965 | -90.0% | 100,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha |
| 1979 | +66.7% | 12,000 kg/ha | 20,000 kg/ha |
| 1980 | -37.5% | 20,000 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 20,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 100,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,800 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 20,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,536 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 12,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,477 kg/ha | 12,273 kg/ha | 12,727 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,373 kg/ha | 12,174 kg/ha | 12,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,175 kg/ha | 11,923 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,247 kg/ha | 12,127 kg/ha | 12,446 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
- 15 Côte d'Ivoire 3,842 kg/ha compare
- 15 Saint Lucia 14,035 kg/ha compare
- 16 Myanmar 13,956 kg/ha compare
- 17 El Salvador 13,750 kg/ha compare
- 19 Dominica 12,105 kg/ha compare
- 20 Peru 11,928 kg/ha compare
- 21 Honduras 11,636 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2316 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 547.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6779 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Kenya?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Kenya was 12,277 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 Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 100,000 kg/ha in 1964.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,000 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Kenya rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Kenya ranks 18th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Kenya 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.