Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 18,317 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Sri Lanka recorded 18,317 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 8.3% on the previous year and up 60.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 57,898 kg/ha in 1980 and was at its lowest, 7,741 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Sri Lanka 9th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Sri Lanka, 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 | 11,422 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2014 | 11,425 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 11,889 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2016 | 11,342 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2017 | 12,686 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2018 | 15,827 kg/ha | +24.8% |
| 2019 | 12,567 kg/ha | -20.6% |
| 2020 | 19,415 kg/ha | +54.5% |
| 2021 | 17,036 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 2022 | 16,522 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2023 | 16,914 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2024 | 18,317 kg/ha | +8.3% |
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 | 12,142 kg/ha | 10,929 kg/ha | 15,827 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,641 kg/ha | 16,522 kg/ha | 19,415 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 6 Martinique 20,707 kg/ha compare
- 7 Nicaragua 20,573 kg/ha compare
- 8 Jamaica 18,819 kg/ha compare
- 10 Dominican Republic 16,046 kg/ha compare
- 11 Belize 16,001 kg/ha compare
- 12 Bangladesh 15,745 kg/ha compare
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 9.1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9172 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7955 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Sri Lanka was 18,317 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 57,898 kg/ha in 1980.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,741 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 9th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 60.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.