Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 5,551 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Sierra Leone stood at 5,551 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 1.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Sierra Leone peaked at 5,618 kg/ha in 1989 and was at its lowest, 3,500 kg/ha, in 1966.
That places Sierra Leone 41st 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 Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,725 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,775 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1963 | 3,850 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1964 | 3,925 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1965 | 4,000 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1966 | 3,500 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1967 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 3,750 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1971 | 3,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 3,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 3,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 4,000 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1975 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 4,048 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1977 | 4,186 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1978 | 4,318 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1979 | 4,444 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1980 | 4,583 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1981 | 4,896 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1982 | 4,904 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1983 | 4,808 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1984 | 4,808 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 4,906 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1986 | 5,000 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1987 | 5,138 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1988 | 5,365 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1989 | 5,618 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1990 | 5,437 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1991 | 5,317 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1992 | 5,311 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1993 | 5,304 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1994 | 5,298 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1995 | 5,292 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1996 | 5,277 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1997 | 5,277 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 5,192 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1999 | 5,283 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2000 | 5,291 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 5,263 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2002 | 5,276 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 5,238 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2004 | 5,224 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2005 | 5,429 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2006 | 5,211 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2007 | 5,278 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 5,417 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2009 | 5,405 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2010 | 5,402 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 5,425 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 5,600 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 5,460 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2014 | 5,485 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 5,516 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 5,520 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 5,528 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 5,540 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 5,550 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 5,557 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 5,549 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 5,552 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 5,553 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 5,551 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,697 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,000 kg/ha | 3,750 kg/ha | 4,444 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,002 kg/ha | 4,583 kg/ha | 5,618 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,299 kg/ha | 5,192 kg/ha | 5,437 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,303 kg/ha | 5,211 kg/ha | 5,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,503 kg/ha | 5,402 kg/ha | 5,600 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,552 kg/ha | 5,549 kg/ha | 5,557 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 29.54 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 29.54 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Sierra Leone?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Sierra Leone was 5,551 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 Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 5,618 kg/ha in 1989.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,500 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Sierra Leone ranks 41st out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.