Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 24,854 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Puerto Rico, 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 Puerto Rico is 24,854 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.2% on the previous year and up 17.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Puerto Rico peaked at 24,854 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,870 kg/ha, in 1964.
Puerto Rico ranks 5th of 50 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Puerto Rico, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,894 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,023 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1963 | 7,382 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1964 | 6,870 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1965 | 7,634 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1966 | 10,218 kg/ha | +33.9% |
| 1967 | 10,125 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1968 | 10,184 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 10,252 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1970 | 10,224 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1971 | 13,740 kg/ha | +34.4% |
| 1972 | 13,740 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 14,365 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1974 | 13,428 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1975 | 12,944 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1976 | 13,740 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1977 | 13,064 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1978 | 13,085 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1979 | 14,969 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 1980 | 14,633 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1981 | 14,679 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1982 | 14,679 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 14,118 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1984 | 14,093 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1985 | 13,432 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1986 | 14,033 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1987 | 14,194 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1988 | 14,403 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1989 | 14,452 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1990 | 14,112 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1991 | 14,054 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1992 | 14,207 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1993 | 10,781 kg/ha | -24.1% |
| 1994 | 14,766 kg/ha | +37.0% |
| 1995 | 14,052 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1996 | 14,100 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 12,525 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1998 | 8,234 kg/ha | -34.3% |
| 1999 | 9,087 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2000 | 13,993 kg/ha | +54.0% |
| 2001 | 14,215 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2002 | 14,021 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2003 | 17,774 kg/ha | +26.8% |
| 2004 | 17,774 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 17,773 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2006 | 17,767 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2007 | 18,052 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2008 | 18,325 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 18,947 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2010 | 19,331 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2011 | 19,709 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2012 | 20,131 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 20,636 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2014 | 21,098 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2015 | 23,331 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 2016 | 23,300 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 22,624 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2018 | 22,866 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 23,231 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 23,591 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 24,167 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2022 | 24,263 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 24,558 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 24,854 kg/ha | +1.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,509 kg/ha | 6,870 kg/ha | 10,252 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,330 kg/ha | 10,224 kg/ha | 14,969 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,272 kg/ha | 13,432 kg/ha | 14,679 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,592 kg/ha | 8,234 kg/ha | 14,766 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,864 kg/ha | 13,993 kg/ha | 18,947 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,626 kg/ha | 19,331 kg/ha | 23,331 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,287 kg/ha | 23,591 kg/ha | 24,854 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Puerto Rico
- Rural population, per capita 0.0566 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.4415 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0069 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 278.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -2.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 887.20 million current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.7% (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 180,246 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Puerto Rico?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Puerto Rico was 24,854 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 Puerto Rico?
- The highest recorded value was 24,854 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,870 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Puerto Rico rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Puerto Rico ranks 5th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Puerto Rico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Puerto Rico 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.