India now ships over a third of world rice exports
Share of world rice exports by country, calendar years 2023–2027. 2026 and 2027 are USDA forecasts.
- 1. India now has more working-age people than China
- 2. India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa
- 3. Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US
- 4. India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
- 5. India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000
- 6. Indian phone users now average 25 GB of data monthly
- 7. India's metro network quadrupled in a decade
- 8. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
- 9. India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales
- 10. India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006
- 11. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 12. Indians now file more patents at home than Germans
- 13. India published more science papers than Germany and Britain combined
- 14. India now holds more foreign reserves than Saudi Arabia
- 15. Open defecation in India fell from 73% to 7%
India shipped 21.7 Mt of the world's 59.5 Mt of rice exports in 2025, after lifting its export curbs.
Vietnam, Thailand and Pakistan together shipped less than India in 2025.
USDA forecasts India's share to rise again in 2027, with 24.0 Mt of 61.4 Mt.
the numbers & method
| Year | India (%) | Vietnam (%) | Thailand (%) | Pakistan (%) | United States (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 32.8 | 15.2 | 16.2 | 8.4 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 29.8 | 15.0 | 16.4 | 10.8 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 36.4 | 13.5 | 13.2 | 7.6 | 4.5 |
| 2026 | 38.6 | 13.6 | 11.7 | 7.7 | 4.3 |
| 2027 | 39.1 | 13.2 | 12.2 | 7.8 | 4.1 |
Claim types Fact · Forecast
Milled basis, thousand tonnes. USDA rice trade years run January–December of the second year (2024/25 = 2025). Shares are progrss calculations from USDA country and world totals. India restricted non-basmati exports from July 2023 and eased the curbs in late 2024, which explains the 2023–24 dip. The October report cut India's 2027 forecast from 25.0 to 24.0 Mt.
Published 3 Nov 2026
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