Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 17,740 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Southern Asia, 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 Southern Asia is 17,740 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 6.5% on the previous year and up 50.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Southern Asia peaked at 57,898 kg/ha in 1980 and was at its lowest, 7,741 kg/ha, in 1968.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Southern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,455 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,207 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1963 | 8,820 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1964 | 9,048 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1965 | 9,333 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1966 | 21,819 kg/ha | +133.8% |
| 1967 | 23,016 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1968 | 7,741 kg/ha | -66.4% |
| 1969 | 8,873 kg/ha | +14.6% |
| 1970 | 8,436 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1971 | 9,167 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1972 | 8,342 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1973 | 18,823 kg/ha | +125.6% |
| 1974 | 18,606 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1975 | 27,474 kg/ha | +47.7% |
| 1976 | 25,621 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1977 | 27,234 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1978 | 26,409 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1979 | 53,324 kg/ha | +101.9% |
| 1980 | 57,898 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1981 | 40,304 kg/ha | -30.4% |
| 1982 | 30,821 kg/ha | -23.5% |
| 1983 | 31,880 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1984 | 22,270 kg/ha | -30.1% |
| 1985 | 15,525 kg/ha | -30.3% |
| 1986 | 15,458 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1987 | 14,233 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1988 | 14,181 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1989 | 15,127 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1990 | 14,038 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1991 | 12,965 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1992 | 13,196 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1993 | 13,625 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1994 | 13,690 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1995 | 13,182 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1996 | 12,888 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1997 | 12,508 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1998 | 11,961 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1999 | 11,827 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2000 | 11,961 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2001 | 11,786 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2002 | 11,800 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 11,344 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2004 | 10,718 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2005 | 10,660 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2006 | 10,325 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2007 | 10,496 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 11,114 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2009 | 10,651 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2010 | 10,929 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2011 | 11,289 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2012 | 12,048 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2013 | 11,839 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2014 | 11,824 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 12,234 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2016 | 11,790 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2017 | 12,828 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2018 | 15,429 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 2019 | 12,911 kg/ha | -16.3% |
| 2020 | 18,405 kg/ha | +42.6% |
| 2021 | 16,694 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2022 | 16,384 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2023 | 16,663 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2024 | 17,740 kg/ha | +6.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,701 kg/ha | 7,741 kg/ha | 23,016 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 22,344 kg/ha | 8,342 kg/ha | 53,324 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 25,770 kg/ha | 14,181 kg/ha | 57,898 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,988 kg/ha | 11,827 kg/ha | 14,038 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,086 kg/ha | 10,325 kg/ha | 11,961 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,312 kg/ha | 10,929 kg/ha | 15,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,177 kg/ha | 16,384 kg/ha | 18,405 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Southern Asia?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Southern Asia was 17,740 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 Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 57,898 kg/ha in 1980.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,741 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Southern Asia rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Southern Asia ranks 1st out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Southern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 50.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.