How many people eat rice as a daily staple?

Food medium Data from 2023

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Answer in people. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

3,500,000,000 people

Roughly 3.5B.

Rice is the daily staple for about 3.5 billion people, more than any other single food. It provides roughly a fifth of all calories consumed by humans, and Asia grows and eats around 90% of it.

Where this number comes from

Source International Rice Research Institute
Figure refers to 2023
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