Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 4,538 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) recorded 4,538 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 2.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 6,840 kg/ha in 1974 and was at its lowest, 4,491 kg/ha, in 2008.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,999 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,045 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1963 | 5,116 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1964 | 5,095 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1965 | 5,140 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1966 | 5,352 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1967 | 5,647 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1968 | 5,518 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1969 | 5,994 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1970 | 6,552 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1971 | 6,681 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1972 | 6,711 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 6,805 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 6,840 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1975 | 6,829 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1976 | 5,830 kg/ha | -14.6% |
| 1977 | 5,843 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1978 | 5,823 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1979 | 4,504 kg/ha | -22.6% |
| 1980 | 4,570 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1981 | 4,630 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1982 | 4,942 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1983 | 4,857 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1984 | 4,760 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1985 | 4,871 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1986 | 4,908 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1987 | 4,993 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1988 | 5,015 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1989 | 5,102 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1990 | 5,090 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1991 | 5,018 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1992 | 4,862 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1993 | 4,971 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1994 | 5,081 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1995 | 5,299 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1996 | 5,313 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 5,402 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 5,295 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1999 | 5,214 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2000 | 5,292 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2001 | 5,270 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2002 | 5,299 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2003 | 5,282 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 5,257 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 5,036 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2006 | 5,070 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 5,138 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 4,491 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 2009 | 4,681 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2010 | 4,644 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 4,652 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 4,563 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2013 | 4,542 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2014 | 4,652 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2015 | 4,744 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2016 | 4,591 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2017 | 4,609 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 4,635 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 4,584 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2020 | 4,557 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2021 | 4,538 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2022 | 4,556 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 4,539 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2024 | 4,538 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,323 kg/ha | 4,999 kg/ha | 5,994 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,242 kg/ha | 4,504 kg/ha | 6,840 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,865 kg/ha | 4,570 kg/ha | 5,102 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,154 kg/ha | 4,862 kg/ha | 5,402 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,082 kg/ha | 4,491 kg/ha | 5,299 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,622 kg/ha | 4,542 kg/ha | 4,744 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,546 kg/ha | 4,538 kg/ha | 4,557 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- 5 Puerto Rico 24,854 kg/ha compare
- 6 Martinique 20,707 kg/ha compare
- 7 Nicaragua 20,573 kg/ha compare
- 8 Jamaica 18,819 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
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 4,538 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 Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 6,840 kg/ha in 1974.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,491 kg/ha in 2008.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 8th out of 12 regions with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.