Rice Exports by Country

Cambodia alone shipped more rice abroad in 2024 than the next twenty exporters combined, taking a lead held by the United States just a year earlier. This page tracks item Rice as reported in the FAO Detailed Trade Matrix, pairing export quantity in tonnes with export value in current US dollars for each reporter. The table spans 2020-2024 and lists 124 countries, of which 76 reported a 2024 quantity; their listed 2024 quantities total about 7.9 million tonnes. The default ranking uses 2024 listed quantities from largest to smallest.

Rice Exports by Country in 2024

Cambodia was the largest rice exporter in the 2024 listed data with 5,011,851 tonnes, ahead of the United States with 1,882,314 tonnes. Brazil ranked third with 392,456 tonnes, followed by India (354,677 tonnes), Pakistan (41,696 tonnes), Paraguay (40,444 tonnes) and China (36,161 tonnes). Greece (32,378 tonnes), Spain (24,837 tonnes) and Bulgaria (24,823 tonnes) complete the top ten. Cambodia also led on export value at 1,398,244,000 US dollars, ahead of the United States (820,817,000) and Brazil (176,598,000).

Rice Exports by Country

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#	Country	Quantity (Tonne)2024	Value (USD)2024
1	Cambodia KH	5.01M	$1.4B
2	United States US	1.88M	$820.82M
3	Brazil BR	392.46K	$176.6M
4	India IN	354.68K	$116M
5	Pakistan PK	41.7K	$23.76M
6	Paraguay PY	40.44K	$14.14M
7	China CN	36.16K	$141.68M
8	Greece GR	32.38K	$17.14M
9	Spain ES	24.84K	$16.04M
10	Bulgaria BG	24.82K	$17.53M
11	Italy IT	13.59K	$16.1M
12	France FR	11.06K	$8.77M
13	South Africa ZA	8.71K	$5.89M
14	Guyana GY	7.15K	$3.16M
15	Kazakhstan KZ	6.25K	$1.91M
16	Romania RO	5.11K	$3.66M
17	Portugal PT	4.56K	$3.69M
18	Netherlands NL	3.45K	$2.58M
19	El Salvador SV	2.65K	$1.41M
20	Honduras HN	1.12K	$227K
21	Hungary HU	905.79	$512K
22	Sri Lanka LK	850.69	$967K
23	Tanzania TZ	803.1	$217K
24	Costa Rica CR	597.29	$914K
25	Türkiye TR	531.52	$362K
26	Saudi Arabia SA	500.84	$472K
27	Czech Republic CZ	435.37	$264K
28	Germany DE	373.83	$752K
29	Benin BJ	332.66	$53K
30	Belgium BE	327.08	$603K
31	Togo TG	259.3	$39K
32	Peru PE	217.67	$73K
33	Poland PL	217.19	$215K
34	Canada CA	185.49	$74K
35	Montenegro ME	120.94	$93K
36	United Kingdom GB	112.55	$291K
37	Australia AU	83.81	$63K
38	Austria AT	73.67	$153K
39	Uzbekistan UZ	63.5	$94K
40	Dominican Republic DO	57.46	$117K
41	Uganda UG	56.14	$59K
42	Senegal SN	50.5	$58K
43	Lebanon LB	46.47	$49K
44	Indonesia ID	45.1	$523K
45	Serbia RS	29.9	$30K
46	Philippines PH	29.85	$192K
47	Ireland IE	23.14	$61K
48	Malawi MW	22.86	$20K
49	Ivory Coast CI	20.89	$8K
50	Fiji FJ	16.66	$9K
51	Eswatini SZ	13.22	$11K
52	Mauritius MU	12.2	$2K
53	Mozambique MZ	10.48	$12K
54	North Macedonia MK	10.01	$18K
55	Sweden SE	8.68	$21K
56	South Korea KR	6.68	$23K
57	Denmark DK	6.6	$11K
58	Norway NO	4.8	$11K
59	Ecuador EC	4.55	$5K
60	Zambia ZM	4	$3K
61	Japan JP	3.13	$32K
62	Samoa WS	2	$1K
63	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	1.8	$4K
64	Mauritania MR	1.07	$1K
65	Slovakia SK	0.76	$16K
66	Namibia NA	0.43	$0
67	Colombia CO	0.36	$3K
68	Luxembourg LU	0.26	$1K
69	Angola AO	0.24	$0
70	Croatia HR	0.17	$0
71	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0.14	$2K
72	New Zealand NZ	0.12	$2K
73	Thailand TH	0.09	$0
74	Estonia EE	0.07	$0
75	Slovenia SI	0.06	$0
76	Switzerland CH	0	$0

The defining event of 2024 was Cambodia's single-year surge: its exports rose by 3,887,068 tonnes (from 1,124,783 to 5,011,851 tonnes, up 345.6 percent), accounting for about 94 percent of the common-universe gain between 2023 and 2024. No other country added even one-fifth as much in absolute terms; the second-largest gain, by the United States (+731,494 tonnes), was less than one-fifth of Cambodia's.

Two countries hold 87.1 percent of the listed 2024 total between them, the top three 92.1 percent and the top ten 99.1 percent — only 0.9 percent of reported trade sits outside the top ten. Cambodia exported about 2.66 times as much as the United States. Quantity and value rankings diverge in one sharp exception at the top: China ranks seventh by quantity (36,161 tonnes) but fourth by value (141,678,000 US dollars), a reported trade value of about 3,918 dollars per tonne against Cambodia's 279 — a unit-value divergence within the reported trade, not a price observation.

Asian reporters include Cambodia, India, Pakistan and China; the Americas supply the second tier through the United States, Brazil, Paraguay and Guyana (7,154 tonnes); Europe's exporters — Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy (13,591 tonnes) and France (11,063 tonnes) — each ship less than one-hundredth of Cambodia's volume.

Largest Changes in Rice Exports, 2023-2024

Between 2023 and 2024, the common reporter universe (68 countries with data in both years) rose from 3,764,328 tonnes to 7,911,576 tonnes, a change of 4,147,248 tonnes (110.2 percent). The totals listed for each year were 4,064,614 tonnes (92 reporters) and 7,912,779 tonnes (76 reporters); 24 countries reporting in 2023 (about 0.30 million tonnes) did not report in 2024. Behind Cambodia, the United States added 731,494 tonnes (up 63.6 percent). Pakistan added 38,598 tonnes (from 3,098 to 41,696 tonnes, up 1,245.9 percent) from a small base, while China added 12,350 tonnes (up 51.9 percent) and Greece 10,900 tonnes (up 50.7 percent).

The sharpest absolute fall came from Brazil, down 415,718 tonnes (from 808,174 to 392,456 tonnes, down 51.4 percent), followed by India with 90,319 tonnes (down 20.3 percent). Bulgaria fell 16,092 tonnes (down 39.3 percent) and Guyana 12,977 tonnes (down 64.5 percent). Tanzania's 90.2 percent fall (from 8,197 to 803 tonnes) looks dramatic in percentage terms but amounts to 7,394 tonnes in absolute terms.

Rice Exports in 2024 Compared with 2020

Between 2020 and 2024, the common reporter universe (67 countries with data in both years) rose from 2,890,476 tonnes to 7,909,467 tonnes, a change of 5,018,991 tonnes (173.6 percent). The totals listed for each year were 3,140,556 tonnes (103 reporters) and 7,912,779 tonnes (76 reporters); 36 countries reporting in 2020 (about 0.25 million tonnes combined) did not report in 2024. Cambodia accounts for practically the entire common-universe gain, rising from just 84 tonnes in 2020 to 5,011,851 tonnes in 2024. The United States added 509,088 tonnes (up 37.1 percent), the only other six-figure absolute gain in the dataset.

Paraguay recorded the largest absolute decline, falling 208,811 tonnes (from 249,255 to 40,444 tonnes, down 83.8 percent), followed by Brazil with 126,040 tonnes (down 24.3 percent) and Guyana with 86,716 tonnes (down 92.4 percent). India fell 59,735 tonnes (down 14.4 percent).

Rice Exports by Country

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#	Country	2020 (Tonne)	2020 (USD)	2021 (Tonne)	2021 (USD)	2022 (Tonne)	2022 (USD)	2023 (Tonne)	2023 (USD)	2024 (Tonne)	2024 (USD)
1	Cambodia	83.73	$48K	1	$3K	-	-	1.12M	$348.3M	5.01M	$1.4B
2	United States	1.37M	$466.59M	1.51M	$511.18M	962.61K	$373.58M	1.15M	$475.89M	1.88M	$820.82M
3	Brazil	518.5K	$139.6M	234.76K	$72.58M	939.78K	$313.26M	808.17K	$315.15M	392.46K	$176.6M
4	India	414.41K	$136.32M	691.01K	$209.72M	460.64K	$150.51M	445K	$155.91M	354.68K	$116M
5	Pakistan	13.6K	$2.06M	32.79K	$2.18M	13.02K	$1.29M	3.1K	$525K	41.7K	$23.76M
6	Paraguay	249.26K	$60.71M	65.2K	$17.78M	130.85K	$36.02M	45.27K	$13.94M	40.44K	$14.14M
7	China	22.96K	$82.85M	25.14K	$95.11M	22.98K	$88.06M	23.81K	$94.48M	36.16K	$141.68M
8	Greece	63.66K	$25.98M	43.57K	$16.92M	29.41K	$15.05M	21.48K	$13.54M	32.38K	$17.14M
9	Spain	33.3K	$13.6M	18.88K	$9.52M	21.78K	$11.7M	20.71K	$15.01M	24.84K	$16.04M
10	Bulgaria	38.74K	$16.77M	25.03K	$13.23M	23.4K	$13.08M	40.92K	$27.83M	24.82K	$17.53M
11	Italy	19.93K	$14.31M	13.47K	$10.78M	12.19K	$12.01M	14.49K	$17.55M	13.59K	$16.1M
12	France	5.7K	$2.45M	2.36K	$1.24M	6.4K	$5.17M	1.55K	$1.44M	11.06K	$8.77M
13	South Africa	3.97K	$2.46M	3.62K	$2.34M	4.57K	$2.69M	3.82K	$3.21M	8.71K	$5.89M
14	Guyana	93.87K	$27.87M	46.3K	$13.99M	13.95K	$5.72M	20.13K	$8.51M	7.15K	$3.16M
15	Kazakhstan	1.7K	$197K	1.33K	$205K	1.83K	$222K	8.19K	$1.69M	6.25K	$1.91M
16	Romania	3.58K	$3.04M	2.94K	$2.01M	5.05K	$3.18M	5.24K	$3.31M	5.11K	$3.66M
17	Portugal	5.45K	$2.28M	7.86K	$3.07M	2.5K	$1.22M	3.71K	$2.31M	4.56K	$3.69M
18	Netherlands	2.68K	$2.28M	5.45K	$2.96M	5.71K	$3.65M	2K	$2.51M	3.45K	$2.58M
19	El Salvador	-	-	-	-	1.45K	$654K	4.66K	$2.09M	2.65K	$1.41M
20	Honduras	397.44	$86K	22.08	$5K	-	-	-	-	1.12K	$227K
21	Hungary	410.23	$218K	258.03	$160K	850.48	$599K	1.04K	$707K	905.79	$512K
22	Sri Lanka	111.24	$141K	46.25	$35K	494.5	$636K	705.27	$780K	850.69	$967K
23	Tanzania	19.73K	$5.74M	10.65K	$2.94M	10.82K	$2.51M	8.2K	$2.59M	803.1	$217K
24	Costa Rica	292.87	$445K	347.3	$529K	310.5	$473K	330.79	$504K	597.29	$914K
25	Türkiye	201.53	$159K	172.16	$151K	468	$308K	251.09	$292K	531.52	$362K
26	Saudi Arabia	722.7	$743K	525.13	$152K	337.18	$127K	609.35	$260K	500.84	$472K
27	Czech Republic	0.41	$1K	0.16	$1K	0.86	$4K	284.98	$183K	435.37	$264K
28	Germany	533.94	$915K	507.21	$1.06M	453.23	$794K	662.38	$1.16M	373.83	$752K
29	Benin	-	-	18	$0	633.39	$88K	2.12K	$240K	332.66	$53K
30	Belgium	1.6K	$713K	3.86K	$1.57M	1.51K	$697K	460.53	$435K	327.08	$603K
31	Togo	-	-	-	-	-	-	189.57	$61K	259.3	$39K
32	Peru	3.73	$7K	2.25	$2K	1.03	$1K	0.57	$1K	217.67	$73K
33	Poland	398.45	$304K	238.34	$168K	457.61	$436K	161.38	$164K	217.19	$215K
34	Canada	80.06	$76K	20.69	$42K	479.54	$282K	152.95	$104K	185.49	$74K
35	Montenegro	16	$13K	10.32	$10K	-	-	7.49	$6K	120.94	$93K
36	United Kingdom	198.57	$800K	85.61	$247K	138.11	$331K	182.23	$860K	112.55	$291K
37	Australia	70.69	$320K	32.48	$57K	104.61	$74K	43.7	$33K	83.81	$63K
38	Austria	135.07	$267K	1.95	$6K	25.51	$53K	54.56	$112K	73.67	$153K
39	Uzbekistan	-	-	0	$9K	3	$3K	12	$15K	63.5	$94K
40	Dominican Republic	1.7	$2K	1.06	$2K	-	-	5.69	$35K	57.46	$117K
41	Uganda	33.05	$26K	46.1	$23K	0.25	$0	-	-	56.14	$59K
42	Senegal	300.2	$235K	616	$582K	640	$465K	195.6	$186K	50.5	$58K
43	Lebanon	27.56	$40K	8.47	$12K	33.51	$38K	36.32	$49K	46.47	$49K
44	Indonesia	40.72	$419K	43.09	$466K	159.63	$521K	38.18	$428K	45.1	$523K
45	Serbia	9.8	$8K	8.91	$6K	22.52	$25K	12.5	$9K	29.9	$30K
46	Philippines	19.94	$169K	17.08	$123K	84.55	$646K	17.7	$153K	29.85	$192K
47	Ireland	32.35	$57K	48.38	$79K	103.19	$158K	15.91	$40K	23.14	$61K
48	Malawi	29.12	$7K	8.54	$2K	10.56	$0	6.93	$1K	22.86	$20K
49	Ivory Coast	77.92	$54K	19.46	$5K	91.72	$61K	9.68	$1K	20.89	$8K
50	Fiji	1.4	$1K	23.53	$17K	81.76	$59K	25.13	$22K	16.66	$9K
51	Eswatini	0	$0	-	-	-	-	-	-	13.22	$11K
52	Mauritius	18.23	$5K	45.72	$5K	509.78	$262K	-	-	12.2	$2K
53	Mozambique	58.27	$42K	3.38	$6K	3.93	$5K	527.38	$306K	10.48	$12K
54	North Macedonia	68.41	$68K	44.99	$47K	55.56	$47K	36.57	$50K	10.01	$18K
55	Sweden	18.78	$34K	5.87	$13K	6.22	$10K	7.12	$15K	8.68	$21K
56	South Korea	51.91	$117K	19.81	$62K	2.08	$10K	12.22	$68K	6.68	$23K
57	Denmark	28.21	$46K	30.31	$50K	7.29	$11K	5.59	$9K	6.6	$11K
58	Norway	0.13	$0	0.1	$0	0.31	$1K	2.1	$2K	4.8	$11K
59	Ecuador	0.09	$1K	2.7K	$1.46M	711.76	$420K	9.08	$9K	4.55	$5K
60	Zambia	90	$63K	306	$181K	-	-	-	-	4	$3K
61	Japan	4.41	$29K	0.53	$4K	0.95	$7K	3.04	$49K	3.13	$32K
62	Samoa	-	-	-	-	34.3	$22K	20.02	$28K	2	$1K
63	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.88	$3K	0.52	$0	1.79	$2K	0.07	$0	1.8	$4K
64	Mauritania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.07	$1K
65	Slovakia	0.06	$0	0.7	$4K	2.19	$5K	0.71	$11K	0.76	$16K
66	Namibia	29	$61K	2.49	$2K	1.04	$2K	10.72	$10K	0.43	$0
67	Colombia	-	-	18.43	$115K	0.06	$1K	0.35	$1K	0.36	$3K
68	Luxembourg	1.48	$7K	0.95	$5K	0.16	$1K	0.32	$3K	0.26	$1K
69	Angola	2.41	$3K	-	-	0.31	$1K	1.88	$1K	0.24	$0
70	Croatia	1.47	$2K	0.12	$0	0.42	$1K	0.22	$1K	0.17	$0
71	Trinidad and Tobago	-	-	-	-	0.03	$0	-	-	0.14	$2K
72	New Zealand	-	-	-	-	0.42	$0	1.52	$3K	0.12	$2K
73	Thailand	0.05	$1K	0.06	$0	0.01	$0	0.01	$0	0.09	$0
74	Estonia	0.14	$0	0.62	$1K	0.72	$2K	0.15	$0	0.07	$0
75	Slovenia	0.1	$0	0.05	$0	0.2	$0	0.01	$0	0.06	$0
76	Switzerland	2.5	$16K	1.35	$10K	0.5	$0	-	-	0	$0
77	Uruguay	162.85K	$50.73M	128.29K	$45.95M	286.18K	$92.49M	274.63K	$114.32M	-	-
78	Russia	61.9K	$22.43M	41.57K	$16.34M	-	-	-	-	-	-
79	Laos	16.05K	$3.92M	29.02K	$7.28M	29.18K	$7.32M	20.3K	$4.57M	-	-
80	Myanmar	237.5	$74K	8.36K	$10.85M	12.62K	$8.81M	-	-	-	-
81	Suriname	-	-	16.45K	$8.22M	10.42K	$6.05M	-	-	-	-
82	Vietnam	1.63K	$2.09M	1.45K	$1.95M	1.35K	$1.93M	2.67K	$2.06M	-	-
83	Djibouti	-	-	1.87K	$741K	3.48K	$1.51M	946.31	$508K	-	-
84	Burkina Faso	3.14K	$1.76M	331	$381K	40	$73K	814.73	$678K	-	-
85	United Arab Emirates	1.05K	$1.01M	724.98	$542K	2.56K	$1.64M	506.92	$368K	-	-
86	Morocco	0	$0	-	-	-	-	240	$216K	-	-
87	Cameroon	2.29K	$216K	52.86K	$508K	177	$5K	-	-	-	-
88	Chile	150.53	$202K	138.04	$130K	110.42	$93K	-	-	-	-
89	Niger	109.87	$43K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
90	Latvia	3.11	$4K	2.61	$5K	125	$98K	100.37	$63K	-	-
91	Panama	0	$320K	-	-	81.6	$30K	-	-	-	-
92	Belize	-	-	-	-	79.73	$1K	-	-	-	-
93	Mali	-	-	-	-	45	$73K	-	-	-	-
94	Singapore	0	$3K	43.36	$31K	-	-	-	-	-	-
95	Bahrain	1.65	$16K	0.67	$4K	39.31	$27K	31.23	$25K	-	-
96	Ukraine	404.46	$187K	3.15K	$1.21M	22	$11K	-	-	-	-
97	Oman	136.93	$106K	134.5	$136K	120.28	$129K	20.26	$24K	-	-
98	Azerbaijan	24	$27K	11.9	$16K	-	-	-	-	-	-
99	Kyrgyzstan	62.29	$39K	22.1	$13K	97.08	$29K	10.4	$3K	-	-
100	Rwanda	2.1	$1K	3.92	$2K	7.35	$3K	-	-	-	-
101	Kenya	21.44	$61K	61.38	$17K	9.9	$5K	6.31	$7K	-	-
102	DR Congo	5.5	$3K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
103	Nicaragua	0.05	$0	131.31	$45K	251.74	$75K	5.44	$0	-	-
104	Kuwait	2.69	$4K	114.01	$121K	0.23	$0	2.67	$3K	-	-
105	Congo	0.3	$1K	-	-	1.5	$2K	-	-	-	-
106	Malta	0.22	$0	0.94	$0	-	-	1.19	$2K	-	-
107	Iceland	7.48	$17K	2.58	$6K	1.13	$4K	-	-	-	-
108	Iran	-	-	49.6	$26K	1	$1K	-	-	-	-
109	Botswana	3.23	$3K	0.92	$1K	0.66	$1K	0.93	$1K	-	-
110	Moldova	-	-	-	-	0.86	$0	-	-	-	-
111	Nepal	-	-	-	-	0.85	$1K	-	-	-	-
112	Bhutan	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6	$0	-	-
113	Madagascar	-	-	-	-	0.5	$0	-	-	-	-
114	Jamaica	0.64	$1K	1.07	$1K	2.77	$10K	0.41	$1K	-	-
115	Armenia	-	-	-	-	0.4	$1K	-	-	-	-
116	Georgia	0.2	$0	8.68	$5K	-	-	0.39	$0	-	-
117	Finland	0	$0	0	$0	5.25	$8K	0.31	$1K	-	-
118	Gabon	0.15	$0	0.04	$1K	0.65	$0	0.09	$0	-	-
119	Ghana	-	-	0.09	$0	0.14	$1K	0.08	$0	-	-
120	Ethiopia	0.01	$0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
121	Malaysia	4	$5K	0.01	$0	-	-	-	-	-	-
122	Israel	0	$16K	0	$44K	0	$28K	0	$6K	-	-
123	Jordan	0	$5K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
124	Lesotho	-	-	6	$4K	-	-	0	$1K	-	-

Methodology

These statistics aggregate FAO Detailed Trade Matrix bilateral flows into annual reporter totals for item Rice, covering export quantity and export value for 2020-2024. Quantities appear in tonnes as rounded display values (below 1,000 tonnes to two decimals, 1,000 tonnes and above as integers); values appear in full current US dollars and are not adjusted for inflation. Ranking and shares use 2024 listed quantities. A reported zero denotes a nil or negligible flow, while an empty cell means nothing was reported for that country and year. Changes between two years are calculated only for countries with reported quantities in both years; countries missing a quantity in either year are excluded from the change calculation. The matrix is built from reported flows and may incorporate partner data where reports are missing, plus additions related to food aid; bilateral flows are not fully reconciled, so a flow reported as an export by one country may differ from the mirror import reported by its partner.