Banana World
Where the world's bananas grow. In 2024, farms harvested 139.4 million tonnes of bananas and 44.6 million tonnes of plantains and cooking bananas.
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The most densely planted spots in MapSPAM's satellite-derived map. Click a place to fly there on the map, or open the real satellite view.
These are model estimates, so at the level of a single square they can be off. Satellite links open Google Maps.
About this map
Figures are the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's official statistics (FAOSTAT), reported by each country, for bananas (mostly dessert bananas like the Cavendish) and plantains and cooking bananas (like matoke). Yield is production per hectare harvested. Some small islands are shown as dots. The French overseas regions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion and French Guiana are reported separately from France.
🛰 Where exactly? switches to a map of where bananas and plantains grow inside each country, for 2020. It comes from IFPRI's MapSPAM, which spreads each country's official farm statistics across the land using satellite maps of cropland, terrain and growing conditions, on a roughly 10 km grid. Its totals (5.2 million hectares of bananas, 6.9 million of plantains) closely match FAO's figures for 2020.
Data: FAOSTAT, Crops and livestock products, © FAO, CC BY 4.0 (updated 2026-10-07). MapSPAM 2020 v2.0 r2, © IFPRI, CC BY 4.0 (adapted: we merged its 10 km cells into 20 km cells for the web). Country borders: Natural Earth via world-atlas (public domain). The counter spreads the year's world banana production evenly over every second, at about 150 g per banana (FAO weighs bananas with their peel). It doesn't include plantains.