Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Liberia
Liberia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 2,214 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Liberia, 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 Liberia is 2,214 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Liberia peaked at 2,214 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 1,467 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Liberia 47th 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 Liberia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,533 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,533 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,467 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1964 | 1,467 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,467 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,467 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,467 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,533 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1969 | 1,533 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,600 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1971 | 1,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,767 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1975 | 1,867 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1976 | 2,000 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1977 | 2,067 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1978 | 2,133 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1979 | 2,133 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,000 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1981 | 2,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 2,133 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1983 | 2,133 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 2,167 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1985 | 2,200 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1986 | 2,154 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1987 | 2,182 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1988 | 2,160 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1989 | 2,182 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1990 | 2,000 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1991 | 2,097 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1992 | 2,167 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1993 | 2,140 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1994 | 2,154 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 2,167 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 2,129 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1997 | 2,188 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1998 | 2,182 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1999 | 2,176 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2000 | 2,194 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2001 | 2,189 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 2,193 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 2,210 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 2,198 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 2,198 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 2,199 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 2,205 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 2,202 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 2,204 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 2,206 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 2,214 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 2,186 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 2,197 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 2,206 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 2,208 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 2,210 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 2,212 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 2,213 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 2,214 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 2,214 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 2,214 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2022 | 2,214 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 2,214 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 2,214 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,496 kg/ha | 1,467 kg/ha | 1,533 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,837 kg/ha | 1,600 kg/ha | 2,133 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,131 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 2,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,140 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 2,188 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,199 kg/ha | 2,189 kg/ha | 2,210 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,207 kg/ha | 2,186 kg/ha | 2,214 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,214 kg/ha | 2,214 kg/ha | 2,214 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Liberia
- 44 Uganda 4,393 kg/ha compare
- 45 Trinidad and Tobago 3,504 kg/ha compare
- 46 Guinea-Bissau 3,181 kg/ha compare
- 48 New Caledonia 1,940 kg/ha compare
- 49 French Polynesia 1,190 kg/ha compare
- 50 Central African Republic 873.5 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Liberia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3265 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 298.89 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8615 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4392 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 32.65 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 32.65 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 63.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Liberia?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Liberia was 2,214 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 Liberia?
- The highest recorded value was 2,214 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Liberia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,467 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Liberia rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Liberia ranks 47th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Liberia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Liberia 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.