Rice Buckets
Last updated: 10 November 2026
Who eats the most rice per person?
This ranki.gg Rank it uses one measure: Rice available for consumption per person, FAO food balance, in kg/yr per capita. The countries on the card are Bangladesh, Philippines, China, Japan, Italy. You do not have to recall the numbers from memory. They sit in a column. The job is to match each country to the value that belongs to it, then lock the order in. Five tries. A card in the right spot locks. A card in the wrong spot turns red so you can move it.
Bangladesh and the Philippines eat rice at almost every meal. China's average is lower because the north lives on wheat, and Japan eats far less rice than it used to. Note: FAO food supply.
The countries on the card
| # | Country | kg/yr per capita |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangladesh | 250.6 |
| 2 | Philippines | 200.4 |
| 3 | China | 130.1 |
| 4 | Japan | 72.9 |
| 5 | Italy | 9.4 |
Bangladesh leads this table at 250.6 kg/yr per capita. After that: Philippines at 200.4 (50.2 kg/yr per capita under Bangladesh); China at 130.1 (70.3 kg/yr per capita under Philippines); Japan at 72.9 (57.2 kg/yr per capita under China); Italy at 9.4 (63.5 kg/yr per capita under Japan). Bangladesh is 26.66 times Italy. That multiple is the top row divided by the bottom row of this same table. In the wider list of 189 stored on the puzzle, Bangladesh is number 4, Philippines is number 9, China is number 21, Japan is number 40, Italy is number 142.
Bangladesh and the Philippines are the high end of this five because the fact says rice is eaten at almost every meal there. China's lower average is explained in the same fact: the north lives on wheat. Japan's lower number is the fact's point that Japan eats far less rice than it used to. Italy, at the bottom of this card, is the contrast with a wheat-and-pasta diet. The note on the fact says this is FAO food supply, which is food available for consumption, not a weighed plate.
The source line on the puzzle is: UN FAO Food Balances via Our World in Data. The puzzle does not add a separate caveat beyond that source line and the fact above. ranki.gg does not invent a value that is missing from that source. If two countries were so close that the order would depend on rounding, they would not be the pair the card asks you to separate.
When you finish the puzzle, the answer screen repeats the order, the fact, and a link to the source. That link is the same URL cited here: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/global-food?Food=Rice&Metric=Food+available+for+consumption&Per+capita=true&Unit=Kilograms+per+year.