Banana Production - Worldmapper

Resources — Banana ProductionBanana Production

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Groucho Marx

Banana is a tropical/subtropical plant, which best grows in warm, frost-free, climate, and is commercially grown from the equator to latitudes of 30 degrees or more.

The biggest Banana producing country in 2016 was by far India – almost 30 million tons- , followed by China and Indonesia. Brazil and Ecuador complete the top five. While India is currently producing about 28% of all Bananas, it only exports about 0.1% of their harvest.

European countries that produce bananas commercially are Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Turkey. Until the 1960 Iceland was among them, due to their greenhouses heated with geothermal energy. There are still some greenhouses producing bananas, but not on large scale.

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Select Year Banana Production Decline 2000 to 2016Banana Production Increase 2000 to 2016

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Technical Notes

Territory size is proportional to the bananas harvested there in 2016.

Data sources This map uses data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

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