Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 34,463 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 1971–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines recorded 34,463 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 54 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.7% on the previous year and up 8.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines peaked at 34,463 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,972 kg/ha, in 1983.
That places Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2nd out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 7,800 kg/ha | — |
| 1972 | 8,143 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1973 | 8,333 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1974 | 7,895 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1975 | 7,407 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1976 | 7,457 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1977 | 7,636 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1978 | 7,905 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1979 | 7,807 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1980 | 7,919 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1981 | 8,462 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1982 | 7,952 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1983 | 6,972 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1984 | 7,778 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1985 | 9,382 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 1986 | 9,238 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1987 | 9,253 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1988 | 9,088 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1989 | 9,046 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1990 | 8,927 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1991 | 9,094 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1992 | 8,927 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1993 | 8,837 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1994 | 8,906 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1995 | 9,362 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1996 | 7,596 kg/ha | -18.9% |
| 1997 | 12,674 kg/ha | +66.9% |
| 1998 | 10,685 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 1999 | 10,722 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 11,378 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2001 | 12,432 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2002 | 12,069 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2003 | 12,143 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2004 | 11,579 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2005 | 11,500 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2006 | 12,000 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2007 | 11,220 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2008 | 11,463 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2009 | 12,000 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2010 | 15,643 kg/ha | +30.4% |
| 2011 | 11,411 kg/ha | -27.1% |
| 2012 | 14,210 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 2013 | 13,361 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2014 | 31,879 kg/ha | +138.6% |
| 2015 | 31,962 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 31,992 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 33,780 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2018 | 33,699 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 33,546 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2020 | 33,570 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 33,674 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 33,783 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 33,217 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 34,463 kg/ha | +3.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7,820 kg/ha | 7,407 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1980s | 8,509 kg/ha | 6,972 kg/ha | 9,382 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,573 kg/ha | 7,596 kg/ha | 12,674 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,778 kg/ha | 11,220 kg/ha | 12,432 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 25,148 kg/ha | 11,411 kg/ha | 33,780 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 33,741 kg/ha | 33,217 kg/ha | 34,463 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.12 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0344 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 431.7 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9414 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5202 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was 34,463 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 Vincent and the Grenadines?
- The highest recorded value was 34,463 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,972 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Saint Vincent and the Grenadines rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ranks 2nd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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.