Plantains Consumption by Country

In 2023, Uganda had the largest listed food supply of plantains among 121 reporters, at 10,019 thousand tonnes, while Uganda also had the highest per-capita figure at 205.92 kilograms per person per year. The 2023 listed total was 35,732 thousand tonnes, with Ghana second at 4,084 thousand tonnes and DR Congo third at 3,732 thousand tonnes. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

Uganda leads the 2023 ranking at 10,019 thousand tonnes, 2.45 times Ghana's 4,084 thousand tonnes, and also leads per capita at 205.92 kilograms per person per year. Sao Tome and Principe follows per capita at 149.56 kilograms.

Plantains Food Supply at a Glance

• Uganda had the largest listed food supply of plantains in 2023 at 10,019 thousand tonnes.
• Ghana ranked second at 4,084 thousand tonnes, followed by DR Congo at 3,732 thousand tonnes.
• Uganda had the highest per-capita food supply at 205.92 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 35,732 thousand tonnes across 121 reporters with reported values.
• Among 119 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed food supply of plantains increased by 387 thousand tonnes, or 1.1 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

In 2023, Uganda had the largest listed food supply of plantains at 10,019 thousand tonnes, with Ghana second at 4,084 thousand tonnes and DR Congo third at 3,732 thousand tonnes. The Philippines followed at 2,882 thousand tonnes and Colombia at 1,945 thousand tonnes. Uganda leads the per-capita ranking at 205.92 kilograms per person per year, followed by Sao Tome and Principe at 149.56 kilograms.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 120 reporters with data in both years rose from 35,348 thousand tonnes to 35,731 thousand tonnes, a gain of 383 thousand tonnes (1.1 percent), as Guatemala entered with 403 thousand tonnes. Since 2019, the common-reporter total has grown 1.1 percent, with Uganda's 1,525-thousand-tonne gain outweighing Nigeria's 2,827-thousand-tonne exit to zero. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of plantains actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	Uganda UG	10.02K	205.92
2	Ghana GH	4.08K	120.87
3	DR Congo CD	3.73K	35.28
4	Philippines PH	2.88K	25.09
5	Colombia CO	1.95K	37.18
6	Ivory Coast CI	1.7K	54.44
7	Cameroon CM	1.55K	54.78
8	Myanmar MM	1.11K	20.46
9	Dominican Republic DO	1.04K	91.95
10	Rwanda RW	967	69.26
11	Sri Lanka LK	698	30.4
12	Guinea GN	658	45.65
13	Ecuador EC	573	31.9
14	Venezuela VE	531	18.78
15	Tanzania TZ	463	6.95
16	United States US	408	1.19
17	Guatemala GT	403	22.21
18	Malawi MW	377	17.86
19	Bolivia BO	329	26.88
20	Gabon GA	272	109.36
21	Nicaragua NI	185	27.15
22	Saudi Arabia SA	179	5.37
23	Bangladesh BD	174	1.01
24	Panama PA	163	36.6
25	Haiti HT	158	13.57
26	Honduras HN	111	10.39
27	Congo CG	78	12.57
28	Guyana GY	77	93.18
29	El Salvador SV	65	10.28
30	Costa Rica CR	63	12.36
31	Romania RO	57	2.97
32	Jamaica JM	55	19.38
33	Liberia LR	47	8.53
34	Guinea-Bissau GW	46	21.29
35	Sierra Leone SL	43	5.12
36	Sao Tome and Principe ST	35	149.56
37	United Kingdom GB	33	0.48
38	Kenya KE	31	0.57
39	France FR	29	0.43
40	Spain ES	29	0.6
41	Canada CA	28	0.72
42	Italy IT	24	0.41
43	Bulgaria BG	23	3.35
44	North Macedonia MK	23	12.59
45	Afghanistan AF	22	0.53
46	Qatar QA	21	7.06
47	Belgium BE	19	1.64
48	Hungary HU	18	1.87
49	Netherlands NL	17	0.96
50	Senegal SN	13	0.71
51	Burkina Faso BF	12	0.52
52	Chile CL	12	0.59
53	Slovakia SK	12	2.25
54	Fiji FJ	11	12.36
55	Germany DE	8	0.09
56	Mauritania MR	8	1.66
57	Bahrain BH	7	4.49
58	Montenegro ME	7	11.7
59	Syria SY	6	0.25
60	Trinidad and Tobago TT	5	3.28
61	Suriname SR	4	6.43
62	Portugal PT	3	0.29
63	Argentina AR	2	0.05
64	Belize BZ	2	6.04
65	Cyprus CY	2	1.5
66	Czech Republic CZ	2	0.2
67	Namibia NA	2	0.82
68	Oman OM	2	0.33
69	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	2	20.41
70	Switzerland CH	2	0.2
71	Tonga TO	2	20.52
72	Bahamas BS	1	2.98
73	Barbados BB	1	2.89
74	Iceland IS	1	3.12
75	Iraq IQ	1	0.02
76	Ireland IE	1	0.19
77	Lesotho LS	1	0.39
78	Lithuania LT	1	0.34
79	Luxembourg LU	1	1.11
80	Malaysia MY	1	0.02
81	Saint Lucia LC	1	4.54
82	Uruguay UY	1	0.16
83	Algeria DZ	0	0
84	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	2.45
85	Armenia AM	0	0
86	Austria AT	0	0.02
87	Bhutan BT	0	0.02
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	0	0.08
89	Botswana BW	0	0.1
90	Cape Verde CV	0	0.13
91	Croatia HR	0	0.09
92	Denmark DK	0	0.05
93	Estonia EE	0	0
94	Finland FI	0	0.03
95	French Polynesia PF	0	0.24
96	Gambia GM	0	0
97	Georgia GE	0	0.01
98	Greece GR	0	0
99	Grenada GD	0	3.99
100	Latvia LV	0	0.01
101	Libya LY	0	0.06
102	Maldives MV	0	0.38
103	Malta MT	0	0.08
104	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.38
105	Micronesia FM	0	2.51
106	Mongolia MN	0	0
107	Morocco MA	0	0
108	New Caledonia NC	0	0.55
109	New Zealand NZ	0	0
110	Niger NE	0	0
111	Nigeria NG	0	0
112	Norway NO	0	0.06
113	Poland PL	0	0
114	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	5.95
115	Serbia RS	0	0
116	Sweden SE	0	0.01
117	Tajikistan TJ	0	0
118	Tunisia TN	0	0
119	Tuvalu TV	0	0
120	United Arab Emirates AE	0	0
121	Vanuatu VU	0	0

Plantains Consumption by Country in 2023

Uganda holds 10,019 thousand tonnes, or 28.0 percent of the 35,732-thousand-tonne listed total. Ghana follows at 4,084 thousand tonnes (11.4 percent) and DR Congo at 3,732 thousand tonnes (10.4 percent), with the Philippines fourth at 2,882 thousand tonnes and Colombia fifth at 1,945 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters account for 49.9 percent of the listed total, while the top five account for 63.4 percent and the top ten account for 81.2 percent. Nigeria, which recorded 2,827 thousand tonnes in 2019, shows a reported zero in 2023.

Guatemala Enters With 403 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Grows 1.1 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 120 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 35,348 thousand tonnes to 35,731 thousand tonnes, a gain of 383 thousand tonnes (1.1 percent). The 2022 total includes 120 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 121; Ireland entered with 1 thousand tonne. Guatemala added 403 thousand tonnes from a zero base, Colombia added 99 thousand tonnes (up 5.4 percent), Rwanda added 50 thousand tonnes (up 5.5 percent), the United States added 48 thousand tonnes (up 13.3 percent) and Guinea added 41 thousand tonnes (up 6.6 percent), while Saudi Arabia fell 138 thousand tonnes (down 43.5 percent), Uganda fell 129 thousand tonnes (down 1.3 percent) and Venezuela fell 61 thousand tonnes (down 10.3 percent).

Uganda Adds 1,525 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Grows 1.1 Percent Since 2019

For the 119 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 35,323 thousand tonnes to 35,710 thousand tonnes, a gain of 387 thousand tonnes (1.1 percent). The 2019 total includes 121 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 121; Cuba and Kyrgyzstan, with a combined 702 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while Afghanistan and Bhutan entered with a combined 22 thousand tonnes. Uganda added 1,525 thousand tonnes (up 18.0 percent), Guatemala added 403 thousand tonnes from a zero base, Myanmar added 379 thousand tonnes (up 52.0 percent), Colombia added 305 thousand tonnes (up 18.6 percent), Rwanda added 217 thousand tonnes (up 28.9 percent) and Guinea added 214 thousand tonnes (up 48.2 percent), while Nigeria fell from 2,827 thousand tonnes to a reported zero (down 100.0 percent) and Ghana fell 298 thousand tonnes (down 6.8 percent).

Both comparison periods show a 1.1 percent increase, although the underlying changes are different. The shorter period includes Guatemala's entry, while the five-year comparison is strongly affected by Uganda's gain and Nigeria's reported decline to zero. Per capita, Uganda's 205.92 kilograms lead Sao Tome and Principe at 149.56 kilograms, with Ghana third at 120.87 kilograms.

What Does the Plantains Food Supply Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the plantains figure used here covers the FAO item Plantains recorded under the Food element as available for human consumption. It represents food available for human consumption during the reference year, rather than a direct estimate of the amount of plantains people actually ate. Bananas recorded under their own item sit outside this figure.

The per-capita figure expresses the same food supply on a population basis, in kilograms per person per year. A country's total quantity and per-capita value therefore answer different questions: total quantity shows the size of the listed food supply, while the per-capita measure adjusts it for population.

Plantains Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2019 (1000 t)	2019 (kg/cap/yr)	2020 (1000 t)	2020 (kg/cap/yr)	2021 (1000 t)	2021 (kg/cap/yr)	2022 (1000 t)	2022 (kg/cap/yr)	2023 (1000 t)	2023 (kg/cap/yr)
1	Uganda	8.49K	197.54	10.67K	240.03	9.5K	206.82	10.15K	214.48	10.02K	205.92
2	Ghana	4.38K	140.18	4.29K	134.57	4.34K	133.32	4.05K	122.14	4.08K	120.87
3	DR Congo	3.9K	41.99	3.92K	40.88	3.94K	39.69	3.72K	36.36	3.73K	35.28
4	Philippines	2.85K	25.69	2.84K	25.34	2.88K	25.49	2.85K	25.01	2.88K	25.09
5	Colombia	1.64K	32.86	1.7K	33.57	1.72K	33.53	1.85K	35.68	1.95K	37.18
6	Ivory Coast	1.62K	57.47	1.64K	56.64	1.58K	53.33	1.67K	54.79	1.7K	54.44
7	Cameroon	1.53K	59.8	1.51K	57.77	1.55K	57.69	1.56K	56.48	1.55K	54.78
8	Myanmar	729	13.85	842	15.88	830	15.54	1.11K	20.64	1.11K	20.46
9	Dominican Republic	925	84.86	942	85.55	973	87.47	1.01K	90.01	1.04K	91.95
10	Rwanda	750	58.71	837	64.08	893	66.88	917	67.17	967	69.26
11	Sri Lanka	504	22.47	874	38.75	727	32.02	707	30.96	698	30.4
12	Guinea	444	34.08	443	33.11	579	42.22	617	43.9	658	45.65
13	Ecuador	513	29.6	475	27.06	527	29.78	572	32.07	573	31.9
14	Venezuela	631	21.81	562	19.76	623	22.05	592	20.99	531	18.78
15	Tanzania	457	7.72	462	7.57	463	7.37	464	7.16	463	6.95
16	United States	354	1.05	380	1.12	375	1.1	360	1.05	408	1.19
17	Guatemala	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	403	22.21
18	Malawi	359	18.89	362	18.52	367	18.32	375	18.21	377	17.86
19	Bolivia	326	27.95	320	27.09	319	26.73	325	26.95	329	26.88
20	Gabon	271	119.43	265	114.18	269	113.12	270	111.01	272	109.36
21	Nicaragua	151	23.28	159	24.27	161	24.28	183	27.14	185	27.15
22	Saudi Arabia	85	2.79	187	6.04	265	8.47	317	9.85	179	5.37
23	Bangladesh	150	0.91	156	0.94	168	1	172	1.02	174	1.01
24	Panama	147	34.81	124	28.95	189	43.43	174	39.58	163	36.6
25	Haiti	165	14.88	146	12.94	159	14.01	158	13.72	158	13.57
26	Honduras	90	9.07	95	9.37	95	9.22	106	10.12	111	10.39
27	Congo	82	14.52	81	14.06	78	13.18	78	12.9	78	12.57
28	Guyana	74	92.05	70	86.32	74	91.34	76	92.5	77	93.18
29	El Salvador	94	15.08	90	14.43	95	15.24	75	11.92	65	10.28
30	Costa Rica	55	11	62	12.38	45	8.95	58	11.37	63	12.36
31	Romania	44	2.27	42	2.17	37	1.91	63	3.27	57	2.97
32	Jamaica	42	14.71	41	14.48	47	16.48	55	19.32	55	19.38
33	Liberia	45	9.02	46	8.93	47	8.88	47	8.69	47	8.53
34	Guinea-Bissau	43	22.01	44	22.08	45	21.92	46	21.84	46	21.29
35	Sierra Leone	41	5.33	42	5.26	43	5.28	43	5.23	43	5.12
36	Sao Tome and Principe	34	159.5	34	156.72	34	153.79	34	151.79	35	149.56
37	United Kingdom	33	0.49	38	0.56	33	0.49	32	0.47	33	0.48
38	Kenya	30	0.58	31	0.59	31	0.58	31	0.57	31	0.57
39	France	25	0.37	33	0.5	30	0.46	26	0.39	29	0.43
40	Spain	26	0.55	47	0.98	42	0.87	21	0.43	29	0.6
41	Canada	22	0.59	26	0.67	26	0.67	26	0.67	28	0.72
42	Italy	23	0.39	37	0.62	39	0.65	41	0.68	24	0.41
43	Bulgaria	22	3.14	16	2.26	20	2.85	20	2.98	23	3.35
44	North Macedonia	22	11.71	27	14.27	26	14.29	21	11.42	23	12.59
45	Afghanistan	-	-	0	0	3	0.09	0	0	22	0.53
46	Qatar	36	12.7	36	12.67	33	11.72	31	10.78	21	7.06
47	Belgium	13	1.13	27	2.34	49	4.22	35	3.01	19	1.64
48	Hungary	18	1.86	15	1.55	15	1.52	29	3.03	18	1.87
49	Netherlands	28	1.6	30	1.68	7	0.39	15	0.82	17	0.96
50	Senegal	35	2.16	20	1.18	31	1.82	27	1.56	13	0.71
51	Burkina Faso	5	0.23	7	0.32	9	0.39	9	0.41	12	0.52
52	Chile	14	0.75	18	0.93	18	0.91	14	0.71	12	0.59
53	Slovakia	10	1.82	12	2.26	9	1.62	10	1.87	12	2.25
54	Fiji	6	6.19	5	5.98	8	8.82	9	10.09	11	12.36
55	Germany	11	0.13	9	0.11	6	0.07	7	0.08	8	0.09
56	Mauritania	0	0.01	5	1.15	7	1.41	8	1.67	8	1.66
57	Bahrain	9	6.12	10	6.98	9	5.67	9	5.98	7	4.49
58	Montenegro	0	0	1	1.17	6	10.43	8	13.02	7	11.7
59	Syria	2	0.08	5	0.23	13	0.61	7	0.3	6	0.25
60	Trinidad and Tobago	5	3.23	6	4.27	5	3.28	5	3.38	5	3.28
61	Suriname	11	18.65	14	23.4	8	13.3	5	7.26	4	6.43
62	Portugal	0	0.02	2	0.18	3	0.25	4	0.35	3	0.29
63	Argentina	1	0.03	2	0.05	3	0.07	2	0.05	2	0.05
64	Belize	4	10.02	3	8.75	3	8.5	2	5.21	2	6.04
65	Cyprus	2	1.33	1	0.85	1	1.11	2	1.14	2	1.5
66	Czech Republic	2	0.18	3	0.29	1	0.1	2	0.17	2	0.2
67	Namibia	2	0.84	1	0.5	2	0.7	2	0.69	2	0.82
68	Oman	2	0.36	2	0.4	1	0.3	3	0.61	2	0.33
69	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5	45.29	3	27.17	4	38.3	2	18.9	2	20.41
70	Switzerland	2	0.18	2	0.2	2	0.19	2	0.17	2	0.2
71	Tonga	2	20.02	2	20.46	2	20.91	2	20.73	2	20.52
72	Bahamas	0	0.91	0	0.89	0	0.9	1	2.09	1	2.98
73	Barbados	1	3.57	1	4.84	2	7.01	1	3.53	1	2.89
74	Iceland	4	9.76	4	9.66	1	1.71	2	4.82	1	3.12
75	Iraq	0	0.01	1	0.02	2	0.04	2	0.05	1	0.02
76	Ireland	0	0	-	-	0	0	-	-	1	0.19
77	Lesotho	0	0.04	0	0.13	0	0.09	0	0.07	1	0.39
78	Lithuania	2	0.7	2	0.56	1	0.18	1	0.26	1	0.34
79	Luxembourg	1	1.31	1	1.14	1	1	1	0.79	1	1.11
80	Malaysia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.02
81	Saint Lucia	1	7.03	1	7.47	1	4.57	1	7.78	1	4.54
82	Uruguay	1	0.28	1	0.31	1	0.31	1	0.3	1	0.16
83	Algeria	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
84	Antigua and Barbuda	0	3.28	0	0.6	0	4.4	0	4.32	0	2.45
85	Armenia	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
86	Austria	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02
87	Bhutan	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0.02
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0.01	0	0.07	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.08
89	Botswana	2	0.67	1	0.5	1	0.58	1	0.44	0	0.1
90	Cape Verde	0	0.06	-	-	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.13
91	Croatia	1	0.31	0	0.1	1	0.15	1	0.14	0	0.09
92	Denmark	0	0.06	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.07	0	0.05
93	Estonia	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
94	Finland	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.03
95	French Polynesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.23	0	0.24
96	Gambia	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
97	Georgia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
98	Greece	3	0.26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	Grenada	0	2.64	1	8.48	1	9.03	1	5.41	0	3.99
100	Latvia	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01
101	Libya	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	0	0.06
102	Maldives	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.18	0	0.3	0	0.38
103	Malta	0	0.09	0	0.05	0	0.06	0	0.05	0	0.08
104	Marshall Islands	0	0.27	0	0.25	0	0.23	0	0.35	0	0.38
105	Micronesia	0	2.56	0	2.55	0	2.53	0	2.53	0	2.51
106	Mongolia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0
107	Morocco	1	0.04	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
108	New Caledonia	0	0.47	0	0.59	0	0.48	0	0.59	0	0.55
109	New Zealand	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.09	0	0.02	0	0
110	Niger	8	0.36	8	0.36	8	0.31	5	0.18	0	0
111	Nigeria	2.83K	13.5	2.88K	13.43	0	0	0	0	0	0
112	Norway	0	0.05	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06
113	Poland	11	0.29	1	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0
114	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0.8	0	1.37	0	0	0	2.89	0	5.95
115	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
116	Sweden	2	0.16	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.01	0	0.01
117	Tajikistan	0	0.01	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0
118	Tunisia	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Tuvalu	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.04	0	0	0	0
120	United Arab Emirates	14	1.54	37	3.93	44	4.45	14	1.34	0	0
121	Vanuatu	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
122	Cuba	701	62.54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
123	Kyrgyzstan	1	0.12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Plantains Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, Uganda had the largest listed food supply of plantains among the 121 reporters with reported values, at 10,019 thousand tonnes. Ghana ranked second at 4,084 thousand tonnes, while DR Congo ranked third at 3,732 thousand tonnes. Uganda had the highest per-capita food supply of plantains at 205.92 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measure of the amount of plantains actually eaten.

Methodology

Percentage changes use the corresponding value in the earlier year as the base. Yearly totals use FAO Food Balances food quantity (Element 5142, thousand tonnes), while the per-capita figures use food supply quantity (Element 645, kg/capita/year) for Plantains from 2019 through 2023. The Food element represents the quantity available for human consumption during the reference period. It is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten, as food can be lost or wasted before it is consumed. No percentage change is shown where the base-year value is zero.

The reporter universe for this item contains 123 reporters. The tables list reporters only; aggregate rows such as World, regions and China (aggregate) are excluded, while China figures refer to the China reporter. For year-to-year comparisons, only reporters with values in both endpoint years are included in the arithmetic. A zero indicates a displayed value of zero, while an empty cell indicates that no value is available for that reporter and year.

Quantities of 1,000 thousand tonnes and above are shown as whole numbers; smaller quantities retain up to two decimals. FAO Food Balances primarily use official national statistics, with some data also estimated or imputed where applicable. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The 2023 listed total of 35,732 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 121 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.