Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 5,791 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Middle Africa stood at 5,791 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 12.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 7,000 kg/ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 3,722 kg/ha, in 1983.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,633 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,703 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1963 | 4,825 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1964 | 4,981 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1965 | 4,781 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1966 | 4,838 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1967 | 4,930 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1968 | 4,785 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1969 | 4,578 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1970 | 4,487 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1971 | 4,528 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 4,858 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1973 | 4,785 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1974 | 4,946 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1975 | 4,809 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1976 | 4,852 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1977 | 4,912 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1978 | 5,048 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1979 | 5,073 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1980 | 5,046 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1981 | 4,988 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1982 | 4,931 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1983 | 3,722 kg/ha | -24.5% |
| 1984 | 3,868 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1985 | 4,052 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1986 | 3,979 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1987 | 4,826 kg/ha | +21.3% |
| 1988 | 4,842 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1989 | 5,097 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1990 | 4,874 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1991 | 4,717 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1992 | 4,819 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1993 | 4,810 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1994 | 4,806 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1995 | 4,778 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1996 | 4,671 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1997 | 4,750 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 5,114 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1999 | 4,841 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2000 | 4,853 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 4,886 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 4,659 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2003 | 4,670 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 4,661 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2005 | 5,726 kg/ha | +22.8% |
| 2006 | 5,800 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2007 | 6,876 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 2008 | 7,000 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 6,592 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2010 | 6,433 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2011 | 6,233 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2012 | 6,355 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2013 | 6,272 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2014 | 6,579 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2015 | 6,618 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 5,799 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 2017 | 5,808 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 5,832 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 5,911 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 5,814 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2021 | 5,829 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 5,925 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2023 | 5,790 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2024 | 5,791 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,784 kg/ha | 4,578 kg/ha | 4,981 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,830 kg/ha | 4,487 kg/ha | 5,073 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,535 kg/ha | 3,722 kg/ha | 5,097 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,818 kg/ha | 4,671 kg/ha | 5,114 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,572 kg/ha | 4,659 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,184 kg/ha | 5,799 kg/ha | 6,618 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,830 kg/ha | 5,790 kg/ha | 5,925 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
- 4 Suriname 25,565 kg/ha compare
- 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
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Middle Africa?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Middle Africa was 5,791 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 Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 7,000 kg/ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,722 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Middle Africa rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 7th out of 12 regions with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.