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Rice Consumption Per Capita

Based on a comparison of 158 countries in 2013, Bangladesh ranked the highest in rice consumption per capita with 172 kg followed by Laos and Cambodia. On the other end of the scale was Poland with 0.950 kg, Tunisia with 1.07 kg and Morocco with 1.10 kg.

Average rice consumption per capita reached 53.8 kg in 2013 in the World according to Faostat. This is 0.186 % more than in the previous year and 2.60 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, average rice consumption per capita reached an all time high of 54.7 kg in 1989 and an all time low of 38.8 kg in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 0.631 % since 1961.

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Countries	Unit	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Afghanistan	kg																												17.3	18.1	15.0	15.6	16.3
Albania	kg																												8.46	6.23	7.45	7.56	6.57
Algeria	kg																												2.09	2.63	2.01	2.76	2.13
Angola	kg																												6.86	7.12	7.30	7.09	7.27
Argentina	kg																												6.81	7.92	7.81	8.21	7.81
Armenia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																4.96	4.26	4.27	3.68	3.10
Australia	kg																												9.90	11.4	11.4	11.6	10.9
Austria	kg																												3.57	3.91	3.59	3.45	3.68
Azerbaijan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																1.82	2.98	2.50	2.01	2.16
Bahamas	kg																												23.6	20.5	21.1	20.9	21.1
Bangladesh	kg																												176	174	173	173	173
Belarus	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																3.46	3.45	2.87	3.16	2.91
Belgium	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...								8.01	7.93	9.54	9.24	8.45
Belize	kg																												33.2	31.8	32.7	32.3	30.5
Benin	kg																												48.7	53.2	55.5	52.4	56.7
Bolivia	kg																												24.6	24.3	25.3	26.2	26.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																1.89	1.70	1.69	1.84	1.90
Botswana	kg																												14.4	13.3	9.70	11.0	10.9
Brazil	kg																												33.3	33.3	34.6	33.5	34.2
Brunei	kg																												76.4	75.1	75.7	76.3	76.7
Bulgaria	kg																												2.93	2.08	2.87	1.66	2.41
Burkina Faso	kg																												16.2	17.7	22.3	21.1	20.5
Cambodia	kg																												158	159	158	160	159
Cameroon	kg																												19.3	20.0	21.0	20.8	21.8
Canada	kg																												9.21	9.79	9.18	8.91	9.20
Central African Republic	kg																												6.79	7.26	6.13	6.89	6.73
Chad	kg																												7.03	9.39	9.33	9.21	8.89
Chile	kg																												8.96	9.62	9.28	8.04	8.16
China	kg																												75.9	77.8	78.0	78.2	80.0
Colombia	kg																												28.3	28.2	28.2	26.8	27.3
Congo	kg																												19.5	18.6	18.4	18.5	17.4
Costa Rica	kg																												49.4	48.6	49.2	48.6	48.5
Croatia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																2.43	2.52	2.68	2.40	2.46
Cuba	kg																												63.5	60.9	62.1	55.8	63.7
Cyprus	kg																												5.58	6.69	4.48	5.96	5.14
Czech Republic	kg																												4.69	4.88	4.18	4.28	4.42
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kg																												76.3	75.0	74.5	74.2	74.7
Denmark	kg																												4.96	4.63	4.99	4.92	5.53
Djibouti	kg																												42.6	43.2	44.1	44.4	44.4
Dominican Republic	kg																												46.2	45.0	48.7	49.1	49.4
East Timor	kg																												61.1	60.7	60.7	65.3	66.4
Ecuador	kg																												43.8	43.8	44.2	44.5	44.4
Egypt	kg																												39.9	40.4	39.0	36.6	39.5
El Salvador	kg																												10.2	10.8	10.0	10.4	10.0
Estonia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																2.30	2.84	1.90	2.62	2.50
Ethiopia	kg	...																											0.660	0.850	1.17	1.21	1.47
European Union	kg																												4.70	4.90	4.80	4.80	5.20
Fiji	kg																												44.1	48.7	50.4	52.4	43.3
Finland	kg																												4.73	4.80	4.37	4.41	4.50
France	kg																												5.91	5.59	5.52	5.36	5.67
Gabon	kg																												34.2	37.6	33.8	33.6	34.4
Gambia	kg																												58.5	65.1	67.8	69.6	69.3
Georgia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																1.90	1.73	2.00	2.30	2.41
Germany	kg																												2.92	3.01	3.09	2.93	3.27
Ghana	kg																												25.4	27.6	29.3	32.8	32.0
Greece	kg																												4.65	8.10	7.11	5.38	7.23
Guatemala	kg																												5.88	5.61	4.81	5.50	5.35
Guinea	kg																												92.9	99.8	98.9	96.8	96.1
Guinea Bissau	kg																												82.1	85.4	91.2	91.7	94.6
Guyana	kg																												80.6	81.3	78.8	75.7	76.2
Haiti	kg																												42.1	42.3	42.3	43.8	43.3
Honduras	kg																												14.7	15.0	15.1	15.4	15.9
Hong Kong	kg																												49.2	48.2	47.2	47.4	47.8
Hungary	kg																												3.94	4.27	3.32	2.56	2.77
Iceland	kg																												3.62	4.00	3.12	3.73	3.59
India	kg																												71.2	72.2	71.7	72.1	70.8
Indonesia	kg																												127	128	130	132	133
Iraq	kg																												36.5	37.6	36.7	33.5	39.2
Iran	kg																												28.8	27.8	25.5	29.1	25.2
Ireland	kg																												2.21	3.18	3.31	3.60	3.04
Israel	kg																												12.7	10.9	12.9	13.9	12.0
Italy	kg																												5.87	5.41	4.73	5.63	5.38
Ivory Coast	kg																												68.4	66.2	64.5	65.0	62.8
Jamaica	kg																												25.9	26.3	28.2	25.7	25.1
Japan	kg																												56.4	54.2	53.7	54.4	52.2
Jordan	kg																												24.9	21.9	23.5	22.0	20.1
Kazakhstan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																9.08	8.79	8.69	7.07	8.42
Kenya	kg																												7.55	7.06	7.91	8.16	10.3
Kuwait	kg																												52.9	55.3	58.6	61.6	64.4
Kyrgyzstan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																8.25	9.83	8.85	6.27	4.97
Laos	kg																												159	160	160	162	162
Latvia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																2.86	2.41	2.07	2.21	3.77
Lebanon	kg																												10.6	10.6	11.6	11.6	11.6
Lesotho	kg																												5.79	5.47	5.66	5.76	5.79
Liberia	kg																												73.3	86.6	89.6	88.1	90.8
Lithuania	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		...														3.12	2.62	3.03	3.37	3.24
Luxembourg	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...								2.70	3.38	3.13	3.34	4.28
Macao	kg																												36.0	42.7	44.5	41.4	42.5
Macedonia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																2.51	2.37	2.27	2.46	2.78
Madagascar	kg																												102	103	104	104	103
Malawi	kg																												4.74	5.37	6.25	4.56	4.74
Malaysia	kg																												80.1	80.3	80.1	80.3	81.1
Maldives	kg																												46.2	46.2	51.7	51.4	51.0
Mali	kg																												53.4	57.4	58.3	57.3	57.6
Malta	kg																												4.20	2.88	5.00	4.63	4.43
Mauritania	kg																												30.9	39.9	40.4	40.6	43.1
Mauritius	kg																												51.8	53.8	59.3	60.2	51.8
Mexico	kg																												5.82	5.25	5.55	5.32	5.74
Moldova	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															4.27	1.89	2.90	3.52	2.82
Mongolia	kg																												6.07	5.52	4.66	7.16	5.04
Montenegro	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		1.82	1.66	1.97	2.12	2.17
Morocco	kg																												1.00	1.04	1.22	1.33	0.600
Mozambique	kg																												19.7	20.4	21.1	21.5	21.2
Myanmar	kg																												126	129	121	125	125
Namibia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...		...		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...											3.88	3.53	3.07	2.33	4.43
Nepal	kg																												86.6	82.6	87.0	87.4	86.7
Netherlands	kg																												2.84	2.77	2.79	2.60	3.14
New Zealand	kg																												9.12	9.46	9.53	10.1	6.99
Nicaragua	kg																												41.7	43.2	43.6	43.4	43.3
Niger	kg																												14.4	14.0	12.9	9.90	10.9
Nigeria	kg																												23.2	24.4	25.4	28.6	30.1
Norway	kg																												4.43	4.59	4.66	4.75	4.74
Oman	kg																												52.3	51.5	51.9	50.8	53.0
Pakistan	kg																												12.5	13.1	15.7	13.5	12.4
Panama	kg																												60.8	60.1	61.4	61.8	62.9
Paraguay	kg																												4.80	4.24	3.36	4.87	5.47
Peru	kg																												44.6	48.8	48.8	46.7	44.5
Philippines	kg																												129	131	123	116	119
Poland	kg																												2.43	1.39	1.10	0.950	1.38
Portugal	kg																												15.1	16.3	15.5	16.6	17.4
Romania	kg																												2.24	2.61	2.34	2.44	2.49
Russia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																4.50	4.79	5.07	4.99	4.87
Rwanda	kg																												5.58	6.02	7.66	7.80	7.85
Saudi Arabia	kg																												33.2	36.5	37.5	36.8	36.3
Senegal	kg																												73.5	73.6	69.0	70.2	70.4
Serbia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		1.31	1.23	1.35	1.31	1.43
Sierra Leone	kg																												94.0	93.5	94.1	98.5	98.8
Slovakia	kg																												4.48	4.96	2.94	3.40	1.25
Slovenia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																3.48	3.26	3.42	3.30	3.38
South Africa	kg																												15.7	15.6	16.6	16.5	16.7
South Korea	kg																												76.6	78.4	81.7	83.7	86.9
Spain	kg																												6.94	7.41	7.86	7.88	8.46
Sri Lanka	kg																												103	105	109	112	109
Sudan	kg																												1.73	1.31	1.20	1.90	...
Suriname	kg																												66.5	68.0	68.2	68.5	68.7
Swaziland	kg																												18.2	17.5	18.1	17.4	18.6
Sweden	kg																												5.44	6.22	5.71	6.16	6.22
Switzerland	kg																												4.92	5.41	5.10	3.77	3.66
Taiwan	kg																												45.4	46.2	47.6	48.7	48.2
Tajikistan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																5.32	5.20	6.55	6.92	7.13
Tanzania	kg																												19.9	22.3	19.5	19.0	19.8
Thailand	kg																												113	118	118	114	112
Togo	kg																												23.2	23.0	21.9	22.6	23.3
Trinidad and Tobago	kg																												16.5	16.6	17.4	17.8	19.1
Tunisia	kg																												1.69	1.85	0.890	0.940	1.44
Turkey	kg																												8.96	10.1	9.44	9.68	9.91
Turkmenistan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																13.5	13.1	12.8	11.5	11.3
Uganda	kg																												4.69	4.57	5.07	4.99	5.56
Ukraine	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																3.88	2.81	3.46	2.92	3.57
United Arab Emirates	kg																												49.3	50.8	50.4	57.6	56.4
United Kingdom	kg																												5.63	6.70	6.18	6.91	6.86
USA	kg																												6.92	6.86	6.84	7.03	6.75
Uruguay	kg																												11.1	11.4	11.4	11.4	11.5
Uzbekistan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																5.31	2.77	3.90	4.14	3.83
Venezuela	kg																												20.7	23.7	32.1	32.1	26.8
Vietnam	kg																												144	146	145	145	145
Yemen	kg																												13.0	13.7	15.1	14.2	14.9
Zambia	kg																												1.51	2.40	2.75	3.25	2.67
Zimbabwe	kg																												3.33	2.84	3.30	6.34	8.60
World	kg																												52.8	53.6	53.5	53.6	54.0

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