Indonesia now uses a sixth less rice per person

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Rice: USDA FAS PSD, Rice, Milled, domestic consumption (1,000 tonnes, milled basis), edition data as of 2026-10, US government work, read from USDA PSD via the progrss vault (loaded from apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline). USDA domestic consumption is total use (food, seed, feed, industrial use and losses), not food eaten, so the plate says 'uses', not 'eats'. Population: World Bank World Development Indicators, SP.POP.TOTL (CC BY 4.0), read from the World Bank API via the progrss vault. Per person = sum of rice use over the three marketing years ÷ sum of mid-year populations of the matching calendar years (2010–2012 with 2010/11–2012/13; 2022–2024 with 2022/23–2024/25), progrss calculation. Set: the 12 countries with the largest USDA rice domestic consumption in 2024/25 (USDA reports the EU as one unit; it is not in the top 12). Indonesia: 38,044 / 38,188 / 38,127 thousand tonnes in 2010/11–2012/13; 35,600 / 36,200 / 35,500 in 2022/23–2024/25; population 249.5 million (2010–12 average) to 281.2 million (2022–24 average); 152.8 → 127.2 kg, −16.7%. Brazil fell almost as much (40.9 → 34.3 kg, −16.2%), from a much lower level. 2025/26 USDA estimate for Indonesia: 35.3 million tonnes. Indonesia's wheat use grew in the same years (6.4 to 10.7 million tonnes a year), but USDA's wheat total includes animal feed, so it is not shown as a swap. Live re-read of the USDA PSD page was not possible in this run (fetch refused); vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11 applies.