Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 10,800 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Malawi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 10,800 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.0% on the previous year and up 5.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Malawi peaked at 11,281 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 2,500 kg/ha, in 1965.
That places Malawi 25th 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,571 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 2,667 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,045 kg/ha | 2,708 kg/ha | 3,206 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,527 kg/ha | 3,188 kg/ha | 3,881 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,995 kg/ha | 3,707 kg/ha | 4,881 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,655 kg/ha | 5,790 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,354 kg/ha | 9,749 kg/ha | 11,104 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,007 kg/ha | 10,800 kg/ha | 11,281 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 22 Philippines 11,552 kg/ha compare
- 23 Costa Rica 11,408 kg/ha compare
- 24 Ghana 11,134 kg/ha compare
- 26 Guadeloupe 10,452 kg/ha compare
- 27 Tonga 10,121 kg/ha compare
- 28 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 10,032 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 24.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3003 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 201.66 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0012 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8241 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Malawi?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Malawi was 10,800 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 Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 11,281 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,500 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Malawi rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Malawi ranks 25th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Malawi 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.