Countries by banana production

India had the highest banana production of 142 countries in 2021, at 33,062,000 tonnes. Sweden had the lowest, at 0 tonnes. The median was 33,463 tonnes and the figure for the World was 132,285,903 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest33,062,000India

Lowest0Sweden

Median33,463142 countries

World132,285,903History

Map of countries, 2021

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1.2M and over
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tonnes, 2021. 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, 2021

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2021 tonnes	Change on 2020
1	India	33,062,000	+1.4%
2	China	11,724,200	+1.8%
3	Indonesia	8,741,147	+6.8%
4	Nigeria	7,388,610	+32.3%
5	Brazil	6,803,350	+3.2%
6	Ecuador	6,717,424	+11.5%
7	Philippines	5,942,215	-0.2%
8	Guatemala	4,649,527	+14.6%
9	Angola	4,345,799	+3.4%
10	Tanzania Estimated	3,304,824	+6.2%
11	Costa Rica	2,570,333	-2%
12	Colombia	2,413,769	+0.6%
13	Mexico	2,405,891	-2.4%
14	Vietnam	2,348,200	+3.6%
15	Peru	2,337,153	+0.5%
16	Rwanda	2,143,865	+5.5%
17	Kenya	1,985,254	+6.9%
18	Thailand Estimated	1,328,295	-2.4%
19	Burundi	1,301,443	+41.9%
20	Papua New Guinea Estimated	1,266,050	+4.7%
21	Dominican Republic	1,262,834	+2.4%
22	Egypt	1,185,148	-12%
23	Ethiopia Estimated	1,098,312	+22.3%
24	Sudan Estimated	934,178	+1.1%
25	Cameroon Estimated	910,699	-4%
26	Türkiye	883,455	+21.3%
27	Malawi	864,849	+16.8%
28	Bangladesh	826,151	+1%
29	Democratic Republic of the Congo	807,157	+0.2%
30	Laos	728,200	-18.5%
31	Côte d’Ivoire	536,522	-14.3%
32	Venezuela	532,767	+0.9%
33	Mali	500,983	+149.9%
34	Mozambique	459,508	-14.1%
35	Panama	419,436	-1%
36	Cambodia Estimated	410,000	+24.2%
37	Spain	409,110	-2.6%
38	Australia	402,982	+8.2%
39	Madagascar Estimated	398,447	-1.4%
40	Honduras	362,359	-38.2%
41	South Africa	351,574	+8.9%
42	Taiwan	337,144	-6.2%
43	Morocco	336,138	-1.4%
44	Malaysia	330,253	+5.2%
45	Nepal	318,338	+25.3%
46	Bolivia	300,871	-0.1%
47	Zimbabwe	298,072	+9.8%
48	Haiti Estimated	266,820	-0.8%
49	Cuba	241,978	-8.1%
50	Guinea Estimated	231,120	+0.6%
51	France	228,900	+7.9%
52	Argentina Estimated	177,009	+0.1%
53	Israel	173,000	+13.1%
54	Liberia Estimated	142,147	-1.1%
55	Pakistan	141,975	-5.9%
56	Iran Estimated	135,259	+0.7%
57	Yemen	132,142	+7.1%
58	Ghana Estimated	117,809	+4.7%
59	Nicaragua	103,855	+1.2%
60	Puerto Rico Estimated	100,749	+1.7%
61	Belize	99,467	+7.4%
62	Paraguay	97,470	+3.2%
63	Republic of the Congo Estimated	86,329	+0.5%
64	Comoros	79,666	+2.8%
65	Jamaica	64,732	+4%
66	Central African Republic Estimated	59,950	-0.7%
67	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	58,088	-0.2%
68	Burkina Faso Estimated	46,046	+0.1%
69	Lebanon	44,962	-31%
70	Jordan	44,925	+36.2%
71	Senegal	35,500	-2.7%
72	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	31,427	+0.6%
73	Togo Estimated	25,119	+2.3%
74	Portugal	24,990	-5%
75	Somalia Estimated	23,510	-0.5%
76	Saudi Arabia	22,200	+9.3%
77	Samoa Estimated	21,873	-5.9%
78	Benin Estimated	20,900	-1.3%
79	Oman	18,417	-0.2%
80	Guyana	17,625	+2.4%
81	Gabon Estimated	17,622	+4.4%
82	Vanuatu Estimated	17,325	+1.2%
83	Eswatini Estimated	17,000	+17.2%
84	El Salvador	15,396	+56.3%
85	Dominica Estimated	11,544	0%
86	Bahamas Estimated	10,551	+1.5%
87	Mauritius	9,638	+21.2%
88	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	8,679	-1.6%
89	Suriname	7,945	+27.3%
90	Fiji	7,586	-13.4%
91	Kiribati Estimated	7,376	+1.3%
92	Saint Lucia	6,009	-37.7%
93	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	6,000	0%
94	Cyprus	5,510	-9.2%
95	Cape Verde	4,930	-11.2%
96	Palestine	3,804	+166.4%
97	United States Estimated	3,625	+4.4%
98	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	3,325	-1.3%
99	Grenada	3,253	+32.3%
100	Bhutan	3,174	+0.8%
101	New Caledonia	2,049	-13.3%
102	Micronesia Estimated	2,042	-0%
103	Seychelles Estimated	2,014	+0.1%
104	Greece	1,470	-69.3%
105	Brunei	1,364	-20.6%
106	Barbados	1,305	+17.1%
107	Timor-Leste	1,290	+150.6%
108	Tonga Estimated	815	-1.7%
109	Zambia Estimated	695	-1.4%
110	Solomon Islands Estimated	320	+0.2%
111	Tuvalu Estimated	289	+0.4%
112	United Arab Emirates	261	-62.7%
113	French Polynesia	243	+15.2%
114	Algeria Estimated	233	-1%
115	Maldives	157	-35.1%
116	Syria	142	-2.1%
117	Niue Estimated	82	+0.2%
118	Japan Estimated	18	+0.3%
119	Cook Islands Estimated	9	+5.7%
120	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	5	+8.7%
121	Austria	0	n/a
121	Belgium	0	n/a
121	Bulgaria	0	n/a
121	Croatia	0	n/a
121	Czechia	0	n/a
121	Denmark	0	n/a
121	Estonia	0	n/a
121	Finland	0	n/a
121	Germany	0	n/a
121	Hungary	0	n/a
121	Ireland	0	n/a
121	Italy	0	n/a
121	Latvia	0	n/a
121	Lithuania	0	n/a
121	Luxembourg	0	n/a
121	Malta	0	n/a
121	Netherlands	0	n/a
121	Poland	0	n/a
121	Romania	0	n/a
121	Slovakia	0	n/a
121	Slovenia	0	n/a
121	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. 10 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2021 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, 2021. 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=2021. 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, 2021}},
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}

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India, with 33,062,000 tonnes in 2021, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Sweden, with 0 tonnes in 2021.

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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. 10 countries have no value for 2021 and are not ranked.

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