Countries by banana production

India had the highest banana production of 141 countries in 2018, at 30,808,000 tonnes. Sweden had the lowest, at 0 tonnes. The median was 35,456 tonnes and the figure for the World was 121,899,454 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest30,808,000India

Lowest0Sweden

Median35,456141 countries

World121,899,454History

Map of countries, 2018

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tonnes, 2018. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Bananas, production, t (item 486, element 5510). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2018

tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Bananas, production, t (item 486, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 tonnes	Change on 2017
1	India	30,808,000	+1.1%
2	China	11,221,700	+0.5%
3	Indonesia	7,264,379	+1.4%
4	Brazil	6,723,590	+2.1%
5	Ecuador	6,505,635	+3.6%
6	Philippines	6,144,374	+1.7%
7	Nigeria Estimated	4,326,600	+10.8%
8	Guatemala	4,207,229	+3.1%
9	Angola	3,954,036	+1%
10	Tanzania	3,395,499	+34%
11	Costa Rica	2,595,229	+1.5%
12	Colombia	2,567,169	+27%
13	Mexico	2,354,479	+5.6%
14	Peru	2,194,858	+10.8%
15	Vietnam	2,087,275	+2%
16	Rwanda	1,769,697	+1.8%
17	Burundi	1,654,955	+99.2%
18	Kenya	1,414,176	-1.4%
19	Egypt	1,292,812	-5.3%
20	Thailand	1,265,420	+13.6%
21	Papua New Guinea Estimated	1,218,604	-0.9%
22	Dominican Republic	1,175,710	+2.7%
23	Cameroon	1,017,363	-2.8%
24	Laos	970,985	+2.6%
25	Sudan	913,217	-1.6%
26	Bangladesh	810,347	+0.4%
27	Democratic Republic of the Congo	803,310	-1.3%
28	Malawi Estimated	759,529	+3.8%
29	Honduras	671,663	-1.1%
30	Venezuela	636,973	+15.5%
31	Ethiopia	519,164	-6.9%
32	Türkiye	498,888	+35.2%
33	Mozambique	495,000	-23.1%
34	South Africa	444,879	+32.7%
35	Madagascar Estimated	392,759	+1.5%
36	Spain	386,230	-8.3%
37	Australia	373,931	-9.5%
38	Panama	371,520	+3.5%
39	Taiwan	356,238	+0.1%
40	Malaysia	330,957	-5.6%
41	Morocco	319,950	-4.1%
42	Bolivia	305,950	+5.6%
43	Haiti	281,559	+2.2%
44	Cuba	271,925	-8%
45	Côte d’Ivoire	270,000	-32.5%
46	Nepal	254,403	+2.7%
47	Guinea Estimated	229,675	+2%
48	Zimbabwe	229,286	-9.1%
49	Mali	196,421	+2.7%
50	France	190,750	n/a
51	Argentina Estimated	176,530	+0.1%
52	Cambodia Estimated	175,759	+15.8%
53	Liberia Estimated	140,606	+1.3%
54	Pakistan	135,056	-1.7%
55	Israel	135,000	+7.1%
56	Iran Estimated	134,265	+2.3%
57	Yemen	109,242	-6.3%
58	Nicaragua	108,834	-3.6%
59	Puerto Rico Estimated	101,267	+10.9%
60	Ghana Estimated	99,083	+6.3%
61	Lebanon	96,881	+24.1%
62	Republic of the Congo Estimated	86,062	0%
63	Belize	82,081	-5.6%
64	Paraguay	75,868	+5%
65	Comoros	73,207	+3%
66	Jamaica	66,381	+2.4%
67	Central African Republic Estimated	61,717	-1%
68	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	58,016	-0.4%
69	Burkina Faso	56,000	+3.7%
70	Suriname	48,835	-22.3%
71	Jordan	35,456	+4.5%
72	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	31,251	+1.7%
73	Senegal	30,000	-18.9%
74	Togo Estimated	24,379	+0.2%
75	Somalia Estimated	23,297	-3.5%
76	Samoa Estimated	22,727	+1.3%
77	Portugal	22,650	-18.7%
78	Benin Estimated	20,613	+1.5%
79	Saint Lucia	19,143	+9.2%
80	Oman	18,265	-0.7%
81	El Salvador	17,249	+24.9%
82	Gabon Estimated	17,207	-1.1%
83	Guyana	16,802	+7.7%
84	Vanuatu Estimated	16,690	+1%
85	Eswatini Estimated	14,231	+10%
86	Dominica Estimated	11,602	+0.5%
87	Bahamas Estimated	10,197	+1.1%
88	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	8,520	+2.5%
89	Cape Verde	7,509	-27.9%
90	Mauritius	7,333	-15.2%
91	Kiribati Estimated	7,240	-0.2%
92	São Tomé and Príncipe	6,293	-5%
93	Cyprus	5,790	-0.9%
94	Grenada	5,030	-24.2%
95	Fiji	4,888	+12.2%
96	Greece	4,450	+84.5%
97	United States Estimated	3,950	+30.8%
98	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	3,295	-3.4%
99	Palestine	2,860	-13.7%
100	Bhutan	2,762	-11.3%
101	Micronesia Estimated	2,040	0%
102	Seychelles Estimated	1,992	+0.5%
103	New Caledonia	1,967	+23.1%
104	Brunei	1,822	0%
105	Barbados Estimated	961	-6.2%
106	Tonga Estimated	819	+0.7%
107	Zambia Estimated	702	+0.8%
108	Timor-Leste Estimated	399	-1.8%
109	Maldives	334	-69.6%
110	French Polynesia	317	-7.3%
111	Solomon Islands Estimated	316	+0.2%
112	Tuvalu Estimated	287	+0.9%
113	United Arab Emirates Estimated	278	-12.8%
114	Algeria Estimated	221	-8.7%
115	Syria	214	+4.4%
116	Niue Estimated	81	+0.2%
117	Japan Estimated	16	-7.1%
118	Cook Islands	5	-31.1%
119	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	5	0%
120	Austria	0	n/a
120	Belgium	0	n/a
120	Bulgaria	0	n/a
120	Croatia	0	n/a
120	Czechia	0	n/a
120	Denmark	0	n/a
120	Estonia	0	n/a
120	Finland	0	n/a
120	Germany	0	n/a
120	Hungary	0	n/a
120	Ireland	0	n/a
120	Italy	0	-100%
120	Latvia	0	n/a
120	Lithuania	0	n/a
120	Luxembourg	0	n/a
120	Malta	0	n/a
120	Netherlands	0	n/a
120	Poland	0	n/a
120	Romania	0	n/a
120	Slovakia	0	n/a
120	Slovenia	0	n/a
120	Sweden	0	n/a

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About this ranking

Quantity of bananas (dessert bananas) produced in the calendar year, in tonnes, as published in FAOSTAT's crops and livestock products domain. Countries report to FAO through its annual production questionnaire; FAO fills gaps with official publications and its own estimates.

Plantains and cooking bananas are a separate FAO item and are not included. FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 11 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2018 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Bananas, production, t (item 486, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Bananas, production, t (item 486, element 5510), Countries by banana production, 2018. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 31 Dec. 2025, https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/banana-production/countries?period=2018. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Bananas, production, t (item 486, element 5510): Countries by banana production, 2018}},
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}

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India, with 30,808,000 tonnes in 2018, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Sweden, with 0 tonnes in 2018.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Bananas, production, t (item 486, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 11 countries have no value for 2018 and are not ranked.

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