Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 14,035 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Saint Lucia, 1978–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Saint Lucia stood at 14,035 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 2.7% on the previous year and down 29.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Saint Lucia peaked at 20,814 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 3,674 kg/ha, in 1986.
Saint Lucia ranks 15th of 50 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 47 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Saint Lucia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 3,939 kg/ha | — |
| 1979 | 4,000 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1980 | 3,925 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1981 | 4,035 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1982 | 3,848 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1983 | 4,013 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1984 | 4,026 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1985 | 4,000 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1986 | 3,674 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1987 | 3,674 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 3,800 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1989 | 4,000 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1990 | 4,442 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1991 | 20,000 kg/ha | +350.2% |
| 1992 | 19,704 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1993 | 19,646 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1994 | 19,592 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1995 | 18,750 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1996 | 19,553 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1997 | 19,569 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 19,592 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1999 | 19,621 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 19,655 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 19,692 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 19,732 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 19,775 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 19,819 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 19,864 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 19,909 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 19,953 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 19,995 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 20,814 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2010 | 20,041 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2011 | 20,044 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 20,041 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2013 | 20,033 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2014 | 19,994 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 19,992 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 19,981 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 20,000 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 19,552 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2019 | 19,796 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 11,000 kg/ha | -44.4% |
| 2021 | 13,556 kg/ha | +23.2% |
| 2022 | 13,256 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2023 | 13,672 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2024 | 14,035 kg/ha | +2.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 3,969 kg/ha | 3,939 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 2 |
| 1980s | 3,899 kg/ha | 3,674 kg/ha | 4,035 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,047 kg/ha | 4,442 kg/ha | 20,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,921 kg/ha | 19,655 kg/ha | 20,814 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,947 kg/ha | 19,552 kg/ha | 20,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,104 kg/ha | 11,000 kg/ha | 14,035 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Saint Lucia?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Saint Lucia was 14,035 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 Saint Lucia?
- The highest recorded value was 20,814 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,674 kg/ha in 1986.
- How does Saint Lucia rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Saint Lucia ranks 15th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Saint Lucia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 29.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Saint Lucia 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.