Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in South America
South America: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 9,590 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in South America, 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 South America is 9,590 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.7% on the previous year and up 8.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in South America peaked at 9,590 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,220 kg/ha, in 1975.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in South America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,440 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,185 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1963 | 8,322 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1964 | 7,833 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1965 | 9,148 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1966 | 8,432 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1967 | 8,103 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1968 | 8,342 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1969 | 8,294 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1970 | 8,312 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1971 | 6,703 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 1972 | 6,536 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1973 | 6,728 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 6,480 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1975 | 6,220 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1976 | 6,378 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1977 | 6,318 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1978 | 6,993 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1979 | 6,806 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1980 | 6,789 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1981 | 6,922 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1982 | 7,076 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1983 | 7,295 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1984 | 7,313 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1985 | 7,677 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1986 | 7,576 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1987 | 7,871 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1988 | 7,909 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1989 | 7,809 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1990 | 8,535 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1991 | 8,558 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1992 | 8,238 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1993 | 7,856 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1994 | 8,029 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1995 | 8,410 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1996 | 8,267 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1997 | 8,399 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 8,196 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1999 | 8,372 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2000 | 7,444 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 2001 | 9,140 kg/ha | +22.8% |
| 2002 | 8,530 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2003 | 8,313 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2004 | 8,523 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2005 | 8,622 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2006 | 8,715 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 8,824 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2008 | 8,610 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2009 | 8,561 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 7,708 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2011 | 7,688 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2012 | 8,103 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2013 | 8,009 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2014 | 8,838 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 2015 | 8,874 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 8,805 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2017 | 8,778 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 8,908 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2019 | 8,646 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2020 | 8,661 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 9,165 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2022 | 9,361 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2023 | 9,245 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2024 | 9,590 kg/ha | +3.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,233 kg/ha | 7,440 kg/ha | 9,148 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,748 kg/ha | 6,220 kg/ha | 8,312 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,424 kg/ha | 6,789 kg/ha | 7,909 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,286 kg/ha | 7,856 kg/ha | 8,558 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,528 kg/ha | 7,444 kg/ha | 9,140 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,436 kg/ha | 7,688 kg/ha | 8,908 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,204 kg/ha | 8,661 kg/ha | 9,590 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
- 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,495 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 South America?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in South America was 9,590 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 South America?
- The highest recorded value was 9,590 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,220 kg/ha in 1975.
- How does South America rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- South America ranks 7th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South America 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.