Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Tonga
Tonga: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 10,121 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Tonga, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Tonga stood at 10,121 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 1.0% on the previous year and down 0.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Tonga peaked at 19,333 kg/ha in 1970 and was at its lowest, 8,000 kg/ha, in 1983.
Tonga ranks 31st of 59 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,810 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 18,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,614 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 19,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,017 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha | 17,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,723 kg/ha | 11,920 kg/ha | 14,631 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,737 kg/ha | 10,886 kg/ha | 12,308 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,138 kg/ha | 9,464 kg/ha | 10,901 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,070 kg/ha | 9,897 kg/ha | 10,220 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Tonga
- 28 Malawi 10,800 kg/ha compare
- 29 Guadeloupe 10,452 kg/ha compare
- 32 Sao Tome and Principe 10,032 kg/ha compare
- 33 Colombia 9,430 kg/ha compare
- 34 Cameroon 8,646 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Tonga
- Agriculture share gdp 18.57 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 18.57 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
- Rural population 78.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 81,794 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 18.6% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 120.22 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 817.1 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Tonga?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Tonga was 10,121 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 Tonga?
- The highest recorded value was 19,333 kg/ha in 1970.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Tonga?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Tonga rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Tonga ranks 31st out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Tonga?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Tonga 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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About this data
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.