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In the 2025/2026 crop year, India produced about *** million metric tons of milled rice, a higher volume than any other country. China came in second place with over *** million metric tons of milled rice in that crop year. 

Milled rice

After the rice is grown and harvested from rice paddies, it undergoes a process to prepare it for human consumption, known as milling. Milling removes the rice husk and bran layers, and the end product is the rice that can be found in your local grocery store or supermarket. The estimated total volume of milled rice produced worldwide reached over *** million metric tons in the 2024/2025 crop year.

Rice consumption worldwide

°Õ³ó±ðÌýtop rice consuming countries are China, India, and Bangladesh in that order. In 2024/2025, China’s rice consumption amounted to over *** million metric tons. °Õ³ó±ðÌýper capita consumption of rice worldwide has remained remarkably stable since the year 2000, and amounted to about **** kilograms per year in 2018/2019.