Rice Production by Country
Source:
FAOSTAT
Key Findings
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India leads in Rice Production (Thousand Tonnes) with 217,868 in 2024.
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Cambodia grew fastest: +468% from 1990 to 2024 (2,500 → 14,200).
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Japan declined most: -22.7% from 1990 to 2024 (13,124 → 10,142).
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Average Rice Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024: 52,378 · median: 23,369.
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2024 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2024: India is 23.9× larger than Nigeria.
About This Dataset
Rice Production by Country
India has overtaken China to become the world's largest rice producer, and the gap between the two is far smaller than their populations would suggest. The fastest growth is further down the table: Cambodia has increased output more than fivefold since 1990, and Pakistan has tripled its own. India matters to the rest of the world more than its rank alone implies, because it is by a wide margin the largest exporter, so its periodic export bans move prices across West Africa and the Gulf within weeks. Figures are paddy rice.
Analysis
The top three in Rice Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024 are India (217,868), China (209,173) and Bangladesh (60,570). India and China together hold 58.2% of the combined total of all 14 entities. Only 2 of the 14 reach even half the leader's figure (108,934 or more). Over 1990–2024 the steepest rise belongs to Cambodia: +468% (2,500 → 14,200). Japan is the only entity to fall over the period, down 22.7%. First place changed hands 1 time across the period.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- FAOSTAT
- Coverage
- 14 entities · 1990–2024 (5 years) · 70 observations
- Measure
- Rice Production (Thousand Tonnes)
- Last updated
- 16 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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