World Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030

TABLE A4.2: Rice: area, yield and production (countries with more than 10000 ha in 1997/99)
	Harvested area (’000 ha)			Yield (kg/ha)			Production (’000 tonnes)
	1979/81	1989/91	1997/99	1979/81	1989/91	1997/99	1979/81	1989/91	1997/99
World	143662	147403	161398	2742	3513	3640	393930	517894	587408
All developing countries	138818	143062	157190	2656	3445	3575	368692	492848	561877
Sub-Saharan Africa	4537	5879	7164	1347	1659	1629	6112	9750	11667
Angola	12	4	22	919	833	871	11	3	19
Benin	8	7	16	1172	1371	2075	10	10	34
Burkina Faso	39	21	50	1141	2090	1853	44	43	92
Burundi	4	12	17	2367	3249	3186	10	40	55
Cameroon	21	14	21	2273	4888	3249	48	69	69
Central African Republic	14	7	13	996	1517	1449	14	10	19
Chad	43	41	85	895	2349	1425	39	97	121
Congo, Dem. Republic	293	479	481	806	805	740	236	385	356
Côte d'Ivoire	383	581	767	1171	1138	1584	448	661	1215
Gambia	22	14	16	1676	1501	1523	37	21	24
Ghana	107	70	126	838	1451	1588	89	102	200
Guinea	486	377	494	900	1136	1505	438	428	743
Kenya	8	13	18	4654	3456	2742	39	45	50
Liberia	203	179	151	1252	1069	1277	254	191	193
Madagascar	1182	1150	1202	1738	2070	2119	2055	2381	2547
Malawi	37	29	42	1074	1740	1788	39	51	76
Mali	165	230	337	1026	1556	2093	169	358	706
Mauritania	3	15	22	3681	3375	4233	12	50	94
Mozambique	92	109	172	811	758	1080	74	83	186
Niger	20	22	30	1535	3367	1890	31	75	57
Nigeria	517	1504	2051	1988	2001	1596	1027	3010	3273
Senegal	74	75	72	1300	2312	2486	96	173	179
Sierra Leone	403	390	271	1250	1305	1212	504	508	329
Tanzania, United Rep.	262	380	469	959	1830	1450	251	694	679
Togo	18	22	46	800	1437	1826	15	31	85
Uganda	12	39	64	1343	1379	1380	16	53	88
Zambia	5	12	13	497	993	893	2	12	11
Sub-Saharan Africa, other	82	72	83	817	1868	1797	67	134	150
Near East/North Africa	1170	1285	1554	4005	4648	5633	4686	5974	8751
Afghanistan	190	173	167	2179	1907	2540	415	329	423
Egypt	416	437	607	5708	7086	8661	2377	3098	5257
Iran, Islamic Rep.	434	542	588	3211	3809	4231	1394	2064	2490
Iraq	56	79	126	2887	2731	1910	162	217	241
Turkey	67	51	58	4722	4976	5314	314	253	310
Latin America and the Caribbean	7983	6685	5951	1945	2633	3466	15525	17597	20629
Argentina	89	103	243	3244	4112	5356	288	422	1300
Bolivia	60	111	132	1506	2098	1879	91	232	248
Brazil	5932	4441	3320	1438	2097	2796	8533	9 313	9 284
Chile	40	35	22	3154	4161	3862	125	146	84
Colombia	428	491	409	4277	4047	4713	1831	1986	1929
Costa Rica	73	53	67	3058	3591	4068	224	192	273
Cuba	146	158	127	3105	3030	2800	455	479	356
Dominican Republic	111	95	111	3534	4783	4674	392	456	519
Ecuador	123	277	336	3074	3077	3377	378	852	1135
El Salvador	15	15	12	3725	4039	5370	56	62	65
Guatemala	14	15	14	2772	2979	2256	37	46	30
Guyana	91	65	139	2924	3303	4077	266	215	567
Haiti	51	59	57	2322	2106	2111	119	125	120
Honduras	20	19	11	1736	2613	2778	35	48	30
Mexico	151	114	99	3636	3714	4442	550	423	441
Nicaragua	37	42	71	3545	2737	3359	130	115	239
Panama	96	94	79	1834	2257	2588	175	211	203
Paraguay	26	33	28	1836	2606	3744	47	87	105
Peru	132	186	273	4462	5161	6061	587	957	1655
Suriname	65	61	55	3977	3771	3504	258	229	194
Uruguay	63	92	181	4566	4983	6047	289	459	1092
Venezuela	214	120	158	2985	4378	4700	638	525	742
South Asia	54477	57195	59314	1910	2602	2917	104021	148833	173044
Bangladesh	10310	10386	10362	1952	2598	2969	20125	26980	30762
India	40091	42501	44225	1860	2619	2915	74557	111290	128921
Nepal	1275	1433	1511	1852	2352	2438	2361	3372	3683
Pakistan	1981	2106	2419	2465	2309	2928	4884	4862	7081
Sri Lanka	819	770	797	2557	3028	3258	2093	2330	2596
East Asia	70652	72019	83209	3374	4314	4180	238348	310693	347787
Cambodia	1154	1763	1990	1081	1432	1838	1248	2524	3657
China	34323	33238	40042	4241	5614	5026	145561	186597	201249
Indonesia	9064	10 438	11607	3263	4298	4292	29570	44864	49814
Korea, DPR	660	629	590	4420	5927	3490	2917	3730	2059
Korea, Republic	1230	1237	1056	5512	6231	6746	6780	7705	7121
Lao PDR	722	606	645	1419	2276	2810	1025	1379	1812
Malaysia	722	676	686	2844	2739	2964	2053	1852	2034
Myanmar	4684	4689	5556	2698	2913	3043	12637	13661	16909
Philippines	3513	3414	3694	2205	2833	2852	7747	9672	10536
Thailand	8986	9 241	9964	1888	2099	2331	16967	19398	23226
Viet Nam	5579	6075	7370	2117	3174	3983	11809	19281	29354
Industrial countries	4141	3649	3732	5469	6238	6517	22650	22760	24321
Australia	111	97	141	6210	8649	8794	688	839	1243
European Union	300	359	410	5570	5919	6514	1671	2124	2671
Japan	2384	2073	1847	5587	6119	6352	13320	12688	11733
United States	1345	1118	1332	5179	6354	6511	6968	7106	8670
Transition countries	703	692	477	3683	3306	2542	2588	2287	1211
Kazakhstan	n.a.	n.a.	76	n.a.	n.a.	3040	n.a.	n.a.	230
Russian Federation	n.a.	n.a.	146	n.a.	n.a.	2702	n.a.	n.a.	395
Tajikistan	n.a.	n.a.	15	n.a.	n.a.	2655	n.a.	n.a.	41
Turkmenistan	n.a.	n.a.	27	n.a.	n.a.	901	n.a.	n.a.	25
Ukraine	n.a.	n.a.	22	n.a.	n.a.	2939	n.a.	n.a.	64
Uzbekistan	n.a.	n.a.	169	n.a.	n.a.	2276	n.a.	n.a.	385

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