Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 6,355 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Western Africa recorded 6,355 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 1.0% on the previous year and down 2.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Western Africa peaked at 6,829 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 3,099 kg/ha, in 1962.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Western Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,127 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,099 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1963 | 3,155 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1964 | 3,143 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1965 | 3,178 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1966 | 3,212 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1967 | 3,285 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1968 | 3,317 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1969 | 3,376 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1970 | 3,461 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1971 | 3,499 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1972 | 3,461 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1973 | 3,520 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1974 | 3,506 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1975 | 3,896 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1976 | 3,952 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1977 | 3,705 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1978 | 3,786 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1979 | 4,222 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1980 | 4,405 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1981 | 4,502 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1982 | 4,327 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1983 | 4,389 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1984 | 4,576 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1985 | 4,555 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1986 | 4,684 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1987 | 4,878 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1988 | 4,726 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1989 | 4,958 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1990 | 4,884 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1991 | 4,535 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1992 | 4,454 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1993 | 4,905 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1994 | 5,084 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1995 | 5,042 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1996 | 5,283 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1997 | 5,421 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1998 | 5,252 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1999 | 5,134 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2000 | 5,066 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2001 | 5,129 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 5,321 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2003 | 5,340 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2004 | 5,527 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2005 | 6,102 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2006 | 6,192 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 6,584 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2008 | 6,765 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2009 | 6,623 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2010 | 6,534 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2011 | 6,532 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 6,389 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2013 | 6,503 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2014 | 6,508 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 6,618 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 6,626 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 6,724 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 6,829 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2019 | 6,612 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2020 | 6,594 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2021 | 6,644 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 6,538 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2023 | 6,417 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2024 | 6,355 kg/ha | -1.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,210 kg/ha | 3,099 kg/ha | 3,376 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,701 kg/ha | 3,461 kg/ha | 4,222 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,600 kg/ha | 4,327 kg/ha | 4,958 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,999 kg/ha | 4,454 kg/ha | 5,421 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,865 kg/ha | 5,066 kg/ha | 6,765 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,587 kg/ha | 6,389 kg/ha | 6,829 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,510 kg/ha | 6,355 kg/ha | 6,644 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
- 5 Puerto Rico 24,854 kg/ha compare
- 6 Martinique 20,707 kg/ha compare
- 7 Nicaragua 20,573 kg/ha compare
- 8 Jamaica 18,819 kg/ha compare
- 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,495 kg/ha compare
- 9 Sri Lanka 18,317 kg/ha compare
- 10 Dominican Republic 16,046 kg/ha compare
- 11 Belize 16,001 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Western Africa?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Western Africa was 6,355 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 Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 6,829 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,099 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Western Africa rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 8th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western Africa 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.