Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 20,573 kg/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Nicaragua, 1961–2023
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 Nicaragua is 20,573 kg/ha, measured in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
The figure is up 7.1% on the previous year and up 88.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Nicaragua peaked at 20,573 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 9,500 kg/ha, in 2001.
That places Nicaragua 7th out of 50 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Nicaragua, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11,904 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 11,981 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1963 | 12,088 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1964 | 11,936 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1965 | 12,065 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1966 | 11,977 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1967 | 11,979 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 11,875 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1969 | 12,020 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1970 | 12,000 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1971 | 12,500 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1972 | 12,642 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1973 | 12,364 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1974 | 11,667 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1975 | 11,605 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1976 | 11,791 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1977 | 11,114 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1978 | 10,667 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1979 | 10,000 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1980 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 9,500 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2002 | 10,000 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2003 | 9,878 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2004 | 9,767 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2005 | 10,000 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 10,056 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 10,000 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2009 | 9,852 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2010 | 11,324 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 2011 | 11,429 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 11,429 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 10,944 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2014 | 12,030 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2015 | 13,238 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2016 | 17,353 kg/ha | +31.1% |
| 2017 | 18,341 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2018 | 19,171 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2019 | 17,023 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 2020 | 18,288 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2021 | 18,287 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2022 | 19,202 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2023 | 20,573 kg/ha | +7.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,980 kg/ha | 11,875 kg/ha | 12,088 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,635 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 12,642 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,905 kg/ha | 9,500 kg/ha | 10,056 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,228 kg/ha | 10,944 kg/ha | 19,171 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,087 kg/ha | 18,287 kg/ha | 20,573 kg/ha | 4 |
Countries ranked near Nicaragua
- 4 Suriname 25,565 kg/ha compare
- 5 Puerto Rico 24,854 kg/ha compare
- 6 Martinique 20,707 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
More agriculture & rural data for Nicaragua
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.55 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1448 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 459.4 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8714 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4056 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 14.48 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 14.48 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Nicaragua?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Nicaragua was 20,573 kg/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 20,573 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,500 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Nicaragua rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Nicaragua ranks 7th out of 50 countries with data for 2023.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is up 88.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nicaragua 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.