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Rice Consumption (Total)

Based on a comparison of 158 countries in 2013, China ranked the highest in rice consumption with 108,321,169 kt followed by India and Indonesia. On the other end of the scale was Macao with 23.8 kt, Hong Kong with 341 kt and Taiwan with 1,129 kt.

Average rice consumption reached 383,515 kt in 2013 in the World according to Faostat. This is 1.13 % more than in the previous year and 13.1 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, average rice consumption reached an all time high of 383,515 kt in 2013 and an all time low of 119,614 kt in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 2.27 % 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	kt																												454,503	489,690	414,648	442,364	475,601
Albania	kt																												26,783	19,673	23,474	23,824	20,713
Algeria	kt																												73,266	94,001	73,100	102,235	80,275
Angola	kt																												121,539	130,429	138,150	138,613	146,771
Argentina	kt																												267,829	314,241	312,673	331,590	317,947
Armenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																14,839	12,673	12,677	10,899	9,188
Australia	kt																												210,368	247,372	250,788	260,114	248,389
Austria	kt																												29,701	32,636	30,039	28,963	31,070
Azerbaijan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																16,002	26,485	22,495	18,307	19,861
Bahamas	kt																												8,078	7,121	7,457	7,532	7,728
Bangladesh	kt																												25,786,468	25,787,264	25,883,655	26,113,090	26,387,059
Belarus	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																33,140	32,969	27,300	30,016	27,497
Belgium	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...								85,531	85,412	103,580	101,083	93,031
Belize	kt																												9,485	9,357	9,848	9,987	9,639
Benin	kt																												424,315	477,342	512,370	498,714	554,555
Bolivia	kt																												238,213	238,793	252,575	265,788	269,746
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																7,320	6,578	6,497	7,067	7,300
Botswana	kt																												27,475	25,716	18,925	21,697	21,703
Brazil	kt																												6,318,981	6,378,977	6,688,452	6,545,928	6,726,731
Brunei	kt																												29,093	29,149	29,836	30,599	31,203
Bulgaria	kt																												22,176	15,609	21,352	12,256	17,705
Burkina Faso	kt																												230,465	259,586	335,974	328,107	327,652
Cambodia	kt																												2,178,655	2,215,604	2,240,982	2,296,210	2,325,766
Cameroon	kt																												368,006	392,614	421,952	428,751	462,069
Canada	kt																												303,787	326,722	309,801	304,014	317,332
Central African Republic	kt																												27,896	30,394	26,152	29,976	29,856
Chad	kt																												75,155	103,535	106,110	107,921	107,418
Chile	kt																												149,308	161,906	157,678	137,961	141,207
China	kt																												101,220,599	104,422,546	105,363,479	106,350,163	109,404,061
Colombia	kt																												1,258,130	1,272,857	1,290,626	1,245,863	1,284,420
Congo	kt																												73,164	71,919	73,421	75,902	73,549
Costa Rica	kt																												220,477	220,393	226,544	227,029	229,587
Croatia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																10,612	10,984	11,658	10,417	10,644
Cuba	kt																												717,758	687,688	701,298	629,433	717,710
Cyprus	kt																												5,933	7,200	4,888	6,581	5,745
Czech Republic	kt																												48,470	50,814	43,782	45,154	46,867
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kt																												1,838,748	1,818,576	1,815,260	1,816,658	1,840,141
Denmark	kt																												27,125	25,430	27,553	27,303	30,823
Djibouti	kt																												34,000	34,975	36,211	37,020	37,638
Dominican Republic	kt																												443,898	438,644	480,856	492,193	501,754
East Timor	kt																												63,317	63,733	64,624	70,432	72,747
Ecuador	kt																												624,650	635,239	652,238	667,000	677,588
Egypt	kt																												2,959,771	3,046,754	2,995,725	2,855,183	3,136,908
El Salvador	kt																												62,431	66,302	61,921	64,543	62,801
Estonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																3,015	3,720	2,478	3,398	3,237
Ethiopia	kt	...																											52,709	70,293	99,603	105,502	131,489
European Union	kt																												38,058	37,596	37,865	38,397	36,929
Fiji	kt																												36,848	41,087	42,974	45,133	37,549
Finland	kt																												25,016	25,542	23,330	23,653	24,242
France	kt																												367,436	349,957	347,073	338,930	360,813
Gabon	kt																												49,512	55,755	51,401	52,237	54,873
Gambia	kt																												89,466	102,694	110,388	117,007	120,265
Georgia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																8,430	7,613	8,786	10,103	10,522
Germany	kt																												244,102	250,589	256,960	243,457	270,712
Ghana	kt																												571,897	636,821	695,201	796,637	793,263
Greece	kt																												51,453	89,785	78,884	59,815	80,355
Guatemala	kt																												78,270	76,623	67,309	78,837	78,689
Guinea	kt																												933,601	1,029,735	1,047,135	1,052,257	1,072,199
Guinea Bissau	kt																												121,801	129,534	141,461	145,549	153,559
Guyana	kt																												62,082	63,110	61,569	59,524	60,241
Haiti	kt																												400,284	407,705	413,147	433,098	434,404
Honduras	kt																												105,629	109,582	113,079	117,346	123,802
Hong Kong	kt																												341	336	331	334	339
Hungary	kt																												39,591	42,946	33,329	25,687	27,696
Iceland	kt																												1,103	1,236	981	1,185	1,157
India	kt																												82,527,335	84,857,842	85,324,915	86,927,535	86,477,560
Indonesia	kt																												29,216,992	29,988,856	30,857,908	31,716,619	32,430,859
Iraq	kt																												1,049,883	1,105,535	1,105,479	1,036,034	1,246,923
Iran	kt																												2,068,957	2,018,074	1,875,980	2,167,467	1,903,017
Ireland	kt																												9,495	13,839	14,588	16,092	13,739
Israel	kt																												87,682	77,701	94,096	102,865	90,166
Italy	kt																												348,964	324,108	284,606	340,582	326,798
Ivory Coast	kt																												1,227,623	1,208,604	1,198,865	1,233,699	1,217,755
Jamaica	kt																												70,251	71,599	76,901	70,420	69,215
Japan	kt																												7,176,178	6,899,959	6,838,109	6,926,982	6,641,125
Jordan	kt																												140,637	129,595	145,346	142,029	135,505
Kazakhstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																139,864	136,875	136,819	112,585	135,528
Kenya	kt																												285,049	273,929	314,854	333,693	432,097
Kuwait	kt																												135,226	149,370	166,919	184,243	201,227
Kyrgyzstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																42,358	51,074	46,612	33,456	26,827
Laos	kt																												955,135	979,902	1,005,843	1,033,663	1,058,136
Latvia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																6,206	5,157	4,371	4,618	7,808
Lebanon	kt																												44,067	44,202	49,214	50,535	52,079
Lesotho	kt																												11,319	10,780	11,270	11,564	11,760
Liberia	kt																												258,308	317,988	342,209	348,848	370,489
Lithuania	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		...														9,956	8,224	9,393	10,351	9,856
Luxembourg	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...								1,284	1,647	1,558	1,694	2,210
Macao	kt																												17.7	21.7	23.2	22.1	23.2
Macedonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																5,269	4,981	4,761	5,165	5,854
Madagascar	kt																												1,983,352	2,042,986	2,123,616	2,196,811	2,241,520
Malawi	kt																												65,068	75,854	91,038	68,516	73,337
Malaysia	kt																												2,148,213	2,193,177	2,225,200	2,270,149	2,330,875
Maldives	kt																												14,230	14,498	16,532	16,748	16,938
Mali	kt																												679,556	754,542	790,543	801,783	830,433
Malta	kt																												1,759	1,211	2,115	1,970	1,888
Mauritania	kt																												102,751	136,416	142,191	146,478	159,471
Mauritius	kt																												63,151	65,754	72,734	74,157	63,966
Mexico	kt																												660,676	603,853	645,734	626,778	685,674
Moldova	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															15,692	6,882	10,443	12,578	9,975
Mongolia	kt																												15,750	14,531	12,449	19,429	13,892
Montenegro	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		1,125	1,029	1,220	1,316	1,347
Morocco	kt																												30,532	32,127	38,293	42,108	19,082
Mozambique	kt																												436,048	463,456	492,841	515,529	520,338
Myanmar	kt																												6,409,960	6,622,516	6,257,470	6,465,210	6,547,766
Namibia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...		...			...	...	...	...	...	...	...											8,064	7,445	6,575	5,077	9,835
Nepal	kt																												2,246,026	2,167,961	2,309,272	2,346,086	2,355,322
Netherlands	kt																												46,722	45,635	46,141	43,214	52,265
New Zealand	kt																												38,604	40,462	41,211	44,135	30,875
Nicaragua	kt																												233,158	244,672	250,217	252,372	255,478
Niger	kt																												203,818	206,063	198,071	157,335	179,820
Nigeria	kt																												3,417,825	3,681,494	3,941,616	4,560,202	4,949,559
Norway	kt																												20,915	21,917	22,552	23,231	23,412
Oman	kt																												134,481	133,677	138,144	142,290	160,436
Pakistan	kt																												2,043,234	2,179,491	2,671,962	2,334,790	2,187,163
Panama	kt																												212,170	213,492	222,116	227,099	235,289
Paraguay	kt																												29,428	26,433	21,332	31,432	35,959
Peru	kt																												1,263,994	1,397,017	1,410,962	1,366,081	1,317,382
Philippines	kt																												11,427,263	11,835,013	11,311,398	10,835,211	11,290,173
Poland	kt																												92,830	52,903	41,994	36,292	52,557
Portugal	kt																												158,938	172,415	164,096	175,764	184,108
Romania	kt																												49,246	57,315	51,218	53,389	54,383
Russia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																646,075	688,702	728,469	716,759	699,219
Rwanda	kt																												55,395	61,505	80,625	84,515	87,440
Saudi Arabia	kt																												861,529	961,858	1,004,896	1,003,823	1,006,584
Senegal	kt																												875,179	901,101	868,692	908,496	938,401
Serbia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		12,915	12,039	13,129	12,621	13,720
Sierra Leone	kt																												509,019	517,486	530,537	566,822	579,209
Slovakia	kt																												24,214	26,861	15,940	18,452	6,817
Slovenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																7,030	6,632	6,984	6,788	6,973
South Africa	kt																												777,664	784,385	843,626	851,135	864,936
South Korea	kt																												3,641,868	3,754,440	3,933,813	4,055,642	4,234,825
Spain	kt																												309,995	335,236	359,483	363,708	393,313
Sri Lanka	kt																												2,091,934	2,142,826	2,239,179	2,320,224	2,274,657
Sudan	kt																												57.5	44.6	41.8	67.7	...
Suriname	kt																												33,893	35,042	35,456	35,955	36,424
Swaziland	kt																												20,689	20,241	21,300	20,749	22,525
Sweden	kt																												49,812	57,446	53,135	57,776	58,760
Switzerland	kt																												37,187	41,373	39,502	29,513	28,990
Taiwan	kt	...	...	...	...																								1,043	1,064	1,101	1,128	1,119
Tajikistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																37,830	37,830	48,781	52,763	55,749
Tanzania	kt																												818,783	942,214	850,258	854,310	916,612
Thailand	kt																												7,445,393	7,801,210	7,802,732	7,569,706	7,461,046
Togo	kt																												135,363	137,605	134,600	142,230	151,034
Trinidad and Tobago	kt																												21,592	21,879	23,069	23,611	25,394
Tunisia	kt																												17,378	19,236	9,316	10,033	15,534
Turkey	kt																												623,030	707,165	672,647	697,975	723,729
Turkmenistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																65,425	64,194	63,631	57,818	57,560
Uganda	kt																												144,236	145,387	166,601	169,573	195,438
Ukraine	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																180,954	130,501	160,103	134,263	163,373
United Arab Emirates	kt																												285,589	345,373	389,118	486,315	503,287
United Kingdom	kt																												344,517	412,512	382,718	430,655	430,022
USA	kt																												2,103,524	2,104,253	2,117,679	2,193,901	2,127,090
Uruguay	kt																												37,152	38,262	38,407	38,501	38,999
Uzbekistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																141,609	74,909	106,720	114,929	107,746
Venezuela	kt																												571,796	667,219	916,566	930,733	789,079
Vietnam	kt																												12,473,006	12,731,269	12,767,560	12,947,515	13,065,662
Yemen	kt																												274,598	298,288	335,083	322,414	347,468
Zambia	kt																												18,259	29,899	35,233	42,913	36,369
Zimbabwe	kt																												42,439	36,280	42,512	82,860	114,834
World	kt																												352,340	361,996	365,658	370,707	377,465

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