Rice Flour Consumption by Country

Thailand holds 718,631 tonnes of listed rice flour supply in 2023 — 43.7 percent of a 1,646,287-tonne total — and also tops per person at 27.46 grams a day. The latest year fell 1.0 percent as Thailand's 115,023-tonne drop nearly mirrored India's 110,561-tonne gain. Five years added 0.8 percent, with Portugal, Tanzania and Italy climbing from tiny bases while Saudi Arabia, France and the Netherlands fell to near zero. India traces a V across the window, from 212,169 tonnes in 2019 down to 93,660 in 2022 and back to 204,221 in 2023.

Thailand sits top at 718,631 tonnes, 1.95 times China at 368,486, with India third at 204,221 and Taiwan fourth at 61,685. Per person Thailand doubles most of the field too at 27.46 grams a day, ahead of Taiwan at 7.25 and Portugal at 4.36.

Reading This Thailand-Led Table

• Thailand reported the largest 2023 supply at 718,631 tonnes.
• China ranked second at 368,486 tonnes, followed by India at 204,221.
• Thailand recorded the highest per-person figure at 27.46 grams a day.
• The listed total was 1,646,287 tonnes across 91 reporters with values.
• Across 80 reporters present in both 2019 and 2023, supply grew 12,753 tonnes, or 0.8 percent.

One Leader, Mirror Moves

The file spans 98 reporters with rice flour values, though only 91 carry a 2023 figure. Thailand and China together hold 66.0 percent of the listed total, and Thailand tops both measures.

The 1.0 percent annual move hides Thailand's and India's near-mirror swings, while Brazil's sharp 2022 rise and subsequent fall also shaped the annual figure. The 0.8 percent five-year net reflects large climbs from small bases in Portugal, Tanzania and Italy alongside steep falls in Saudi Arabia, France and the Netherlands.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Thailand TH	718.63K	27.46
2	China CN	368.49K	0.71
3	India IN	204.22K	0.39
4	Taiwan TW	61.69K	7.25
5	Germany DE	34.52K	1.12
6	Australia AU	28.37K	2.94
7	United Kingdom GB	23.85K	0.95
8	Canada CA	20.66K	1.44
9	Kazakhstan KZ	18.7K	2.52
10	Spain ES	17.53K	1
11	Tanzania TZ	16.85K	0.69
12	Portugal PT	16.58K	4.36
13	Myanmar MM	15.92K	0.81
14	Indonesia ID	14.18K	0.14
15	Italy IT	12.92K	0.59
16	Poland PL	9.4K	0.66
17	Sri Lanka LK	6.85K	0.82
18	Russia RU	6.75K	0.13
19	Nicaragua NI	6.11K	2.45
20	Morocco MA	5.72K	0.42
21	Austria AT	5.34K	1.6
22	Netherlands NL	4.07K	0.62
23	Namibia NA	3.61K	3.33
24	Brazil BR	2.73K	0.04
25	Botswana BW	2.38K	2.63
26	Denmark DK	2.36K	1.09
27	Türkiye TR	2.01K	0.06
28	Finland FI	1.75K	0.85
29	Israel IL	1.62K	0.48
30	Hungary HU	1.5K	0.42
31	Slovenia SI	1.29K	1.67
32	Sweden SE	1.24K	0.32
33	Greece GR	1.18K	0.32
34	Slovakia SK	1.12K	0.56
35	Switzerland CH	961.58	0.3
36	France FR	761.59	0.03
37	Peru PE	514.46	0.04
38	Cambodia KH	461.68	0.07
39	United States US	449.74	0
40	Romania RO	418.52	0.06
41	Uruguay UY	325.95	0.26
42	Hong Kong HK	296.78	0.11
43	Lithuania LT	259.48	0.25
44	Albania AL	255.52	0.25
45	Norway NO	250.5	0.12
46	North Macedonia MK	226.09	0.34
47	Croatia HR	156.02	0.11
48	Trinidad and Tobago TT	141.2	0.26
49	Bahamas BS	98.73	0.68
50	Guatemala GT	98	0.01
51	Maldives MV	89.91	0.47
52	Ecuador EC	69.93	0.01
53	Latvia LV	69.84	0.1
54	Iran IR	68.48	0
55	Tunisia TN	47.78	0.01
56	Chile CL	23.8	0
57	Estonia EE	18.74	0.04
58	DR Congo CD	17.3	0
59	French Polynesia PF	16.19	0.16
60	Lebanon LB	12.99	0.01
61	Philippines PH	10.06	0
62	Nigeria NG	9.91	0
63	Belarus BY	8.26	0
64	Bulgaria BG	7.8	0
65	New Zealand NZ	4.83	0
66	Laos LA	3.44	0
67	Malta MT	3.34	0.02
68	El Salvador SV	3.06	0
69	Angola AO	0.9	0
70	Marshall Islands MH	0.79	0.06
71	Guinea-Bissau GW	0.09	0
72	Senegal SN	0.08	0
73	Rwanda RW	0.03	0
74	Afghanistan AF	0	0
75	Algeria DZ	0	0
76	Ethiopia ET	0	0
77	Gabon GA	0	0
78	Ghana GH	0	0
79	Haiti HT	0	0
80	Iraq IQ	0	0
81	Ireland IE	0	0
82	Jamaica JM	0	0
83	New Caledonia NC	0	0
84	Oman OM	0	0
85	Pakistan PK	0	0
86	Qatar QA	0	0
87	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	0
88	Saudi Arabia SA	0	0
89	Solomon Islands SB	0	0
90	Syria SY	0	0
91	Vanuatu VU	0	0

Thailand at 43.7 Percent and First Per Person

The 2023 table opens with Thailand at 718,631 tonnes, China second at 368,486 and India third at 204,221. Taiwan and Germany follow at 61,685 and 34,520 tonnes. Thailand holds 43.7 percent of the 1,646,287-tonne listed total.

The top three reporters accounted for 78.4 percent of the listed total, the top five 84.3 percent and the top ten 90.9 percent. Per capita, Thailand's 27.46 grams per person per day lead Taiwan at 7.25 grams. Thailand ranks first on both measures, with the largest total supply and the highest per-capita figure.

Down 1.0 Percent in 2023 on Mirror Moves

Across the 87 reporters with values in both 2022 and 2023, listed supply moved from 1,662,087 tonnes to 1,646,190 tonnes, down 15,897 tonnes or 1.0 percent. The 2022 and 2023 common totals cover the same 87 reporters; the full 2023 listed total of 1,646,287 adds 97 tonnes from Chile, Ecuador, Laos and Senegal, which had no 2022 value, and none left. Thailand fell 115,023 tonnes (down 13.8 percent), Brazil 47,131 (down 94.5 percent) and Spain 6,361 (down 26.6 percent).

On the gaining side, India added 110,561 tonnes (up 118.0 percent), Kazakhstan added 14,421 tonnes (up 337.0 percent), Portugal added 13,264 tonnes (up 399.6 percent), Myanmar added 7,642 tonnes (up 92.3 percent) and Germany added 3,394 tonnes (up 10.9 percent). Thailand's fall from 833,654 to 718,631 tonnes against India's rise from 93,660 to 204,221 nearly mirror each other, while Brazil's fall from 49,858 to 2,727 tonnes reversed its 2022 spike.

Five Years Up 0.8 Percent on Small-Base Climbs

For the 80 reporters with values in both 2019 and 2023, listed supply rose from 1,633,411 tonnes to 1,646,165 tonnes, up 12,753 tonnes or 0.8 percent. The 2019 universe holds 87 reporters with values against 91 in 2023; seven reporters with a combined 90 tonnes left, while 11 with a combined 123 tonnes entered. Portugal added 16,467 tonnes from 116 tonnes, Tanzania 13,443 (up 394.6 percent), Italy 12,255 from 662 tonnes and Germany 11,313 (up 48.7 percent), while China fell 17,907 tonnes (down 4.6 percent), Saudi Arabia 11,008 (down 100.0 percent), France 10,963 (down 93.5 percent) and the Netherlands 10,960 (down 72.9 percent).

Portugal, Tanzania and Italy together added 42,165 tonnes from tiny bases, outweighing China's decline. Saudi Arabia's fall from 11,008 tonnes to a reported zero, France's from 11,725 to 762 tonnes and the Netherlands' from 15,028 to 4,068 removed most of their 2019 supplies.

What Counts as Rice Flour Supply?

Counted here is the Flour of rice item in the FAO Supply Utilization Accounts, as food available for human consumption during the reference year. A total of this kind is not an estimate of what people actually ate.

The per-person measure restates the reported supply as grams available per person each day, and here both views agree: Thailand tops the table by total and per person.

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#	Country	2019 (t)	2019 (g/cap/d)	2020 (t)	2020 (g/cap/d)	2021 (t)	2021 (g/cap/d)	2022 (t)	2022 (g/cap/d)	2023 (t)	2023 (g/cap/d)
1	Thailand	709.98K	27.2	834.36K	31.91	830.81K	31.73	833.65K	31.84	718.63K	27.46
2	China	386.39K	0.74	350.05K	0.67	369.16K	0.71	366.22K	0.7	368.49K	0.71
3	India	212.17K	0.42	141.47K	0.28	132.05K	0.26	93.66K	0.18	204.22K	0.39
4	Taiwan	68.04K	7.87	63.49K	7.35	61.3K	7.13	59.43K	6.95	61.69K	7.25
5	Germany	23.21K	0.76	25.01K	0.82	29.26K	0.96	31.13K	1.01	34.52K	1.12
6	Australia	29.33K	3.15	27.94K	2.97	27.54K	2.91	28.74K	3	28.37K	2.94
7	United Kingdom	24.38K	1	24.58K	1	25.39K	1.03	27.11K	1.09	23.85K	0.95
8	Canada	15.2K	1.1	17.69K	1.27	17.08K	1.22	19.5K	1.38	20.66K	1.44
9	Kazakhstan	17.95K	2.56	4.04K	0.57	3.2K	0.44	4.28K	0.59	18.7K	2.52
10	Spain	20.9K	1.21	24.83K	1.43	24.48K	1.4	23.89K	1.37	17.53K	1
11	Tanzania	3.41K	0.16	5.6K	0.25	7.65K	0.33	14.87K	0.63	16.85K	0.69
12	Portugal	116.06	0.03	7.42K	1.96	8.64K	2.28	3.32K	0.87	16.58K	4.36
13	Myanmar	8.07K	0.42	10.1K	0.52	3.88K	0.2	8.28K	0.42	15.92K	0.81
14	Indonesia	15.34K	0.15	13.26K	0.13	13.6K	0.13	13.52K	0.13	14.18K	0.14
15	Italy	661.56	0.03	4.91K	0.22	4.79K	0.22	12.87K	0.59	12.92K	0.59
16	Poland	10.53K	0.75	10.71K	0.77	9.44K	0.68	9.72K	0.69	9.4K	0.66
17	Sri Lanka	8.21K	1	6.04K	0.73	6.14K	0.74	6.48K	0.78	6.85K	0.82
18	Russia	5.05K	0.09	1.76K	0.03	39.03K	0.73	8.66K	0.16	6.75K	0.13
19	Nicaragua	2.45K	1.04	6.75K	2.82	5.41K	2.23	7.66K	3.12	6.11K	2.45
20	Morocco	3.44K	0.26	5.01K	0.38	3.57K	0.26	5K	0.37	5.72K	0.42
21	Austria	3.98K	1.23	6.07K	1.86	6.3K	1.92	6.92K	2.09	5.34K	1.6
22	Netherlands	15.03K	2.35	17.68K	2.75	13.22K	2.04	3.49K	0.53	4.07K	0.62
23	Namibia	3.71K	3.83	1.67K	1.68	2.19K	2.13	3.73K	3.54	3.61K	3.33
24	Brazil	3.96K	0.05	3.06K	0.04	3.96K	0.05	49.86K	0.65	2.73K	0.04
25	Botswana	693.8	0.82	926.21	1.07	928.54	1.06	1.04K	1.17	2.38K	2.63
26	Denmark	2.29K	1.08	2.12K	1	2.94K	1.37	2.52K	1.17	2.36K	1.09
27	Türkiye	662.64	0.02	64.93	0	31.18	0	14.5	0	2.01K	0.06
28	Finland	1.1K	0.55	1.14K	0.57	1.29K	0.64	1.76K	0.87	1.75K	0.85
29	Israel	1.92K	0.61	2.19K	0.68	2.01K	0.62	1.95K	0.59	1.62K	0.48
30	Hungary	415.92	0.12	935.02	0.26	848.35	0.24	788.91	0.22	1.5K	0.42
31	Slovenia	792.27	1.04	909.92	1.19	673.47	0.87	881.84	1.14	1.29K	1.67
32	Sweden	1.38K	0.37	1.43K	0.38	1.48K	0.39	1.2K	0.31	1.24K	0.32
33	Greece	2.38K	0.61	2.01K	0.52	566.12	0.15	1.2K	0.31	1.18K	0.32
34	Slovakia	1.38K	0.69	1.5K	0.75	1.29K	0.65	1.4K	0.7	1.12K	0.56
35	Switzerland	1.77K	0.57	1.76K	0.56	1.68K	0.53	1.12K	0.35	961.58	0.3
36	France	11.73K	0.49	11.48K	0.48	9.2K	0.38	1.6K	0.07	761.59	0.03
37	Peru	523.95	0.04	364.74	0.03	669.36	0.06	540.65	0.04	514.46	0.04
38	Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	461.68	0.07
39	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.08K	0.01	449.74	0
40	Romania	209.93	0.03	323.3	0.05	111.17	0.02	227.79	0.03	418.52	0.06
41	Uruguay	337.61	0.27	139.7	0.11	59.36	0.05	146.04	0.12	325.95	0.26
42	Hong Kong	43.35	0.02	45.48	0.02	185.82	0.07	249.84	0.09	296.78	0.11
43	Lithuania	260.78	0.26	175.95	0.17	433.35	0.42	251.86	0.24	259.48	0.25
44	Albania	8.14	0.01	0	0	0	0	157.64	0.15	255.52	0.25
45	Norway	378.46	0.19	380.77	0.19	357.36	0.18	309.69	0.16	250.5	0.12
46	North Macedonia	664.7	0.96	464.84	0.68	366.67	0.54	122.43	0.18	226.09	0.34
47	Croatia	104.28	0.07	1.48K	1.03	1.27K	0.89	868.41	0.61	156.02	0.11
48	Trinidad and Tobago	6.34	0.01	0	0	-	-	0	0	141.2	0.26
49	Bahamas	0.03	0	4.29	0.03	0.2	0	136.97	0.94	98.73	0.68
50	Guatemala	474.17	0.08	721.1	0.11	287.01	0.04	0.02	0	98	0.01
51	Maldives	96.55	0.54	21.33	0.12	88.67	0.47	173.53	0.91	89.91	0.47
52	Ecuador	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	69.93	0.01
53	Latvia	78.06	0.11	63.36	0.09	68.96	0.1	43.66	0.06	69.84	0.1
54	Iran	83.11	0	86.88	0	115.44	0	94.07	0	68.48	0
55	Tunisia	0	0	4.36	0	-	-	0	0	47.78	0.01
56	Chile	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23.8	0
57	Estonia	37.31	0.08	38.3	0.08	91.36	0.19	21.25	0.04	18.74	0.04
58	DR Congo	29.68	0	0	0	0	0	32.99	0	17.3	0
59	French Polynesia	-	-	0	0	-	-	0	0	16.19	0.16
60	Lebanon	54.12	0.03	2.34	0	6.28	0	38.43	0.02	12.99	0.01
61	Philippines	20.29	0	0	0	13.66	0	18.62	0	10.06	0
62	Nigeria	6.55	0	12.03	0	0.47	0	6.68	0	9.91	0
63	Belarus	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.02	0	8.26	0
64	Bulgaria	100.23	0.04	52.08	0.02	19.64	0.01	0	0	7.8	0
65	New Zealand	21.9	0.01	28.82	0.02	19.34	0.01	3.38	0	4.83	0
66	Laos	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.44	0
67	Malta	0.91	0	2.34	0.01	3.54	0.02	1.4	0.01	3.34	0.02
68	El Salvador	0	0	24.34	0.01	15.89	0.01	88.46	0.04	3.06	0
69	Angola	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	0
70	Marshall Islands	0.26	0.02	0.39	0.02	0.77	0.05	0.44	0.03	0.79	0.06
71	Guinea-Bissau	0.06	0	0.02	0	0.23	0	0.2	0	0.09	0
72	Senegal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.08	0
73	Rwanda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0
74	Afghanistan	0.21	0	0.56	0	0.48	0	0	0	0	0
75	Algeria	0	0	30.91	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
76	Ethiopia	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
77	Gabon	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
78	Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.48	0	0	0
79	Haiti	0.02	0	0.07	0	0.57	0	0.01	0	0	0
80	Iraq	0.05	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
81	Ireland	0	0	-	-	3.4	0	0.02	0	0	0
82	Jamaica	0	0	5.43	0.01	5.3	0.01	0	0	0	0
83	New Caledonia	0	0	0.56	0.01	0	0	0.53	0.01	0	0
84	Oman	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.6	0	0	0
85	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0.21	0	0	0	0	0
86	Qatar	850.14	0.83	-	-	970.2	0.94	0	0	0	0
87	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	0	0
88	Saudi Arabia	11.01K	0.99	13.79K	1.22	-	-	28.22	0	0	0
89	Solomon Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.07	0	0	0
90	Syria	-	-	8.53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
91	Vanuatu	0	0	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	0
92	Turkmenistan	0	0	279.81	0.11	403.32	0.16	-	-	-	-
93	Liberia	0.14	0	55.14	0.03	46.34	0.02	-	-	-	-
94	Panama	75.28	0.05	16.72	0.01	-	-	-	-	-	-
95	Barbados	1.02	0.01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
96	Libya	0	0	0.22	0	0.41	0	-	-	-	-
97	Montenegro	0.08	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
98	Kuwait	13.55	0.01	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-

Rice Flour Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

Thailand recorded the largest 2023 listed rice flour supply at 718,631 tonnes — 43.7 percent of a 1,646,287-tonne listed total across 91 reporters. China followed at 368,486 and India at 204,221 tonnes. Thailand had the highest per-capita figure at 27.46 grams per person per day. These figures measure food available for human consumption, not the amount actually eaten.

Methodology

Year-to-year comparisons use reporters present in both endpoint years, with the earlier year as the percentage base. Totals are FAO Supply Utilization Accounts food supply quantity (element 5141, tonnes); per-capita figures are element 665 in grams per capita per day — both for flour of rice, 2019 through 2023. The elements count supply made available for human consumption over the reference period. A displayed zero means zero and a blank cell means no value was reported, and no percentage is shown where the base-year value is zero.

This item covers 98 reporters in total, reporters only: World, regional and China (aggregate) rows are left out entirely, so China here means the China reporter. The 1,646,287-tonne listed total adds the 91 reporters with a 2023 value, in tonnes exactly as FAO reports them, without extra rounding. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Supply Utilization Accounts, Flour of rice, food supply quantity (tonnes; g/capita/day), 2019-2023. Compiled by StatsGeo.