The Top 5 Rice Producing Countries

  Country Rice Production
(metric tonnes)
% of World Total
1 China 206,507,400 m/t 27.8%
2 India 157,200,000 m/t 21.2%
3 Indonesia 70,846,465 m/t 9.5%
4 Bangladesh 52,325,620 m/t 7.0%
5 Vietnam 44,974,206 m/t 6.0%
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Sources:  FAOSTAT data, 2017 (last accessed by Top 5 of Anything: January 2017).

List Notes: Rice production (paddy) is in metric tonnes (m/t) for the year 2014 (latest year for which statistics are available). This top 5 list may include official, semi-official or estimated data on world rice production gathered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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