Editing Banana (section)

== Production and export ==

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|+ 2022 production (in millions of tonnes)
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!  style="background:#ddf; width:10%;"|Bananas
!  style="background:#ddf; width:10%;"|Plantains
!  style="background:#ddf; width:10%;"|Total
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|{{Flagu|India}}||style="text-align:center;"|34.5||&nbsp;||style="text-align:center;"|34.5
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|{{Flagu|China}}||style="text-align:center;"|11.8||&nbsp;||style="text-align:center;"|11.8
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|{{Flagu|Uganda}}||style="text-align:center;"|  ||style="text-align:center;"|10.4||style="text-align:center;"|10.4
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|{{Flagu|Indonesia}}||style="text-align:center;"|9.2||&nbsp;||style="text-align:center;"|9.2
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|{{Flagu|Philippines}}||style="text-align:center;"|5.9||style="text-align:center;"|3.1||style="text-align:center;"|9.0
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|{{Flagu|Nigeria}}||style="text-align:center;"|8.0||style="text-align:center;"|  ||style="text-align:center;"|8.0
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|{{Flagu|Ecuador}}||style="text-align:center;"|6.1||style="text-align:center;"|0.9||style="text-align:center;"|6.9
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|{{Flagu|Brazil}}||style="text-align:center;"|6.9||&nbsp;||style="text-align:center;"|6.9
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|{{Flagu|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}||style="text-align:center;"|0.8||style="text-align:center;"|4.9||style="text-align:center;"|5.7
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|{{Flagu|Cameroon}}||style="text-align:center;"|0.9||style="text-align:center;"|4.7||style="text-align:center;"|5.5
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|{{Flagu|Colombia}}||style="text-align:center;"|2.5||style="text-align:center;"|2.5||style="text-align:center;"|5.0
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|{{Flagu|Guatemala}}||style="text-align:center;"|4.8||style="text-align:center;"|0.3||style="text-align:center;"|5.0
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|{{Flagu|Ghana}}||style="text-align:center;"|0.1||style="text-align:center;"|4.8||style="text-align:center;"|4.9
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|{{Flagu|Angola}}||style="text-align:center;"|4.6||&nbsp;||style="text-align:center;"|4.6
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|{{Flagu|Tanzania}}||style="text-align:center;"|3.5||style="text-align:center;"|0.6||style="text-align:center;"|4.1
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|{{Flagu|Rwanda}}||style="text-align:center;"|2.2||style="text-align:center;"|0.9||style="text-align:center;"|3.1
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|{{Flagu|Costa Rica}}||style="text-align:center;"|2.5||style="text-align:center;"|0.1||style="text-align:center;"|2.6
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|{{Flagu|Ivory Coast}}||style="text-align:center;"|0.5||style="text-align:center;"|2.1||style="text-align:center;"|2.6
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|{{Flagu|Mexico}}||style="text-align:center;"|2.6|| ||style="text-align:center;"|2.6
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|{{Flagu|Dominican Republic}}||style="text-align:center;"|1.4||style="text-align:center;"|1.2||style="text-align:center;"|2.5
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|{{Flagu|Vietnam}}||style="text-align:center;"|2.5|| ||style="text-align:center;"|2.5
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|{{Flagu|Peru}}||style="text-align:center;"|2.4||style="text-align:center;"|  ||style="text-align:center;"|2.4
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|style="text-align: center;" |'''World'''||style="text-align:center;"|'''135.1'''||style="text-align:center;"|'''44.2'''||style="text-align:center;"|'''179.3'''
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|colspan=4|<small>Source: [[FAOSTAT]] of the [[United Nations]]<ref name="FAOSTAT-2022">{{cite web |title=FAOSTAT |url=https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL |website=www.fao.org |access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref> Note: Some countries distinguish between bananas and plantains, but four of the top six producers do not, thus necessitating comparisons using the total for bananas and plantains combined.</small>
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{{as of|2018}}, bananas are exported in larger volume and to a larger value than any other fruit.<ref name="Gittleson-2018"/> In 2022, world production of bananas and plantains combined was 179 million tonnes, led by India and China with a combined total of 26% of global production. Other major producers were Uganda, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nigeria and Ecuador.<ref name="FAOSTAT-2022"/> As reported for 2013, total world exports were 20 million tonnes of bananas and 859,000 tonnes of plantains.<ref name="FAOSTAT-2017">{{cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/TP |title=Banana and plantain exports in 2013, Crops and livestock products/Regions/World list/Export quantity (pick lists) |date=2017 |publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization]], Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) |access-date=January 6, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511194947/http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/TP |archive-date=May 11, 2017}}</ref> Ecuador and the Philippines were the leading exporters with 5.4 and 3.3 million tonnes, respectively, and the Dominican Republic was the leading exporter of plantains with 210,350 tonnes.<ref name="FAOSTAT-2017"/>