plate 129 · 2024 data

India now grows more rice than China

Rice (paddy) production, million tonnes, 2014 and 2024, the world's six largest growers, FAOSTAT.

Who feeds the world
  1. 1. Brazil has all but caught the US in farm exports
  2. 2. Brazil exports more chicken than the US and EU combined
  3. 3. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
  4. 4. Russia now exports twice as much wheat as the US
  5. 5. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
  6. 6. China buys three in ten of the world's beef imports
  7. 7. Farmed seafood now outweighs the wild catch
  8. 8. Spanish olive oil mill prices are back at 2021 levels
  9. 9. Ukraine sells a fifth less grain than before the war
  10. 10. Brazil overtook the US as the world's top cotton exporter
  11. 11. Laos now mines more potash than Israel or Jordan
  12. 12. India now grows more rice than China
  13. 13. Côte d'Ivoire grows more cashews than India
  14. 14. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
  15. 15. Mato Grosso grows more soy than China and India combined
  16. 16. Africa now has more hungry people than Asia
  17. 17. Vietnam now drinks more coffee than Russia
  18. 18. Nigeria now eats more rice than Japan
218 Mt

India harvested 217.9 million tonnes of rice (paddy) in 2024, against China's 207.5 Mt.

+36%

India's harvest grew 36% from 2014 (159.8 Mt), while China's slipped 1% (209.6 Mt).

2023

India first passed China in 2023: 207.7 Mt against 206.6 Mt.

Source: FAO, FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products (QCL), Rice, production, 2024
the numbers & method
India now grows more rice than China. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products (QCL), Rice, production, 2024.
2014 (Mt)2024 (Mt)
China210208
India160218
Bangladesh5261
Indonesia5953
Viet Nam4543
Thailand3634

Claim types Fact

Item 27 'Rice' (paddy, unmilled), element 5510 production, tonnes, shown in millions. Values 2014 / 2024: China 209.61 / 207.53; India 159.81 / 217.87; Bangladesh 51.79 / 60.57; Indonesia 59.06 / 53.14; Viet Nam 44.97 / 43.45; Thailand 35.94 / 33.55. 2023: India 207.75, China 206.60. FAOSTAT China excludes Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Indonesia's 2014 value is an FAO estimate (flag E). Next largest in 2024: Myanmar 27.7, Philippines 19.1. Growth rates are progrss calculations.

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