World Wide Rice Production

Rank	Country	Production (Int $1000)	Production (MT)
1	China	48617300	196681170
2	India	35739468	133700000
3	Indonesia	17388077	64398900
4	Bangladesh	13140574	47724000
5	Vietnam	10405073	38950200
6	Myanmar	7997263	32682000
7	Thailand	7878788	32116100
8	Philippines	4282001	16266400
9	Brazil	3464023	12651100
10	Japan	2938609	10590000

 

Rice is the second largest produced cereal in the world. At the beginning of the 1990s, annual production was around 350 million tons and by the end of the century it had reached 410 million tons.

Production is geographically concentrated in Western and Eastern Asia. Asia is the biggest rice producer, accounting for 90% of the world's production and consumption of rice. China and India, which account for more than one-third of global population supply over half of the world's rice. Rice production in India accounts for 20 % of overall production. Brazil is the most important non-Asian producer, followed by the United States. Italy ranks first in Europe.

The world's major rice-producing countries - including the two most populous nations, China and India - have emphasized the importance of continuing to develop new rice varieties to guarantee Asia's food security and support the region's economic development.

Today, rice is grown and harvested on every continent except Antarctica, where conditions make its growth impossible. The majority of all rice produced comes from India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, and Bangladesh.