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Rice facts
Freshwater
resources
per capita
(m 3 )
INFORMATION ABOUT AGRICULTURE
Annual
freshwater
withdrawal
for agriculture
(%)
Agriculture’s
share (%)
Average annual growth rate
Selected riceconsuming
and Arable land e
Labor GDP g GDP g Agriculture Rice
-producing per capita
force
value added production
countries 1998 1996 1980-97 f 1998 1998 1990-98 1990-98 1990-2000
Asia 0.14 – – 57 – – – 1.6 h
Bangladesh 0.06 19,065 96 58 22.2 4.8 1.5 2.5
Bhutan 0.07 – – 94 38.2 – – 2.0
Cambodia 0.35 47,530 94 71 50.6 5.5 2.2 6.0
China d 0.10 2,282 87 68 18.4 11.1 4.3 0.7
India 0.16 2,167 93 61 29.3 6.1 3.4 2.0
Indonesia 0.09 12,625 76 50 19.5 5.8 2.8 1.2
Japan 0.04 4,338 50 5 1.7 1.3 –2.0 –0.8
Korea, DPR 0.07 – – 32 – – – –10.1
Korea, Rep. of 0.04 1,438 46 11 4.9 6.2 2.1 –0.4
Lao PDR 0.15 55,679 82 77 52.6 6.7 4.5 4.3
Malaysia 0.09 21,046 47 20 13.2 7.7 2.0 0.5
Myanmar 0.21 24,651 90 71 53.2 6.3 5.0 3.5
Nepal 0.13 7,616 95 93 40.5 4.8 2.3 2.4
Pakistan 0.14 3,256 97 48 26.4 4.1 3.8 4.8
Philippines 0.08 4,373 61 41 16.9 3.3 1.5 1.8
Sri Lanka 0.05 2,329 96 46 21.1 5.3 1.5 0.9
Thailand 0.28 2,954 90 58 11.2 7.4 3.1 2.8
Vietnam 0.07 4,902 78 68 25.7 8.6 5.1 5.4
Latin America 0.27 27,386 77 21 7.8 3.7 2.6 2.9
Brazil 0.32 42,459 59 18 8.4 3.3 3.1 1.4
Colombia 0.05 26,722 43 22 13.5 4.2 1.6 1.1
Cuba 0.33 – – 15 – – – –0.3
Dominican Rep. 0.13 2,467 89 18 11.6 5.5 3.6 1.7
Ecuador 0.13 26,305 90 27 12.9 2.9 2.7 3.9
Guyana 0.56 – – 19 34.7 – – 12.2
Peru 0.15 1,641 72 31 7.1 5.9 5.5 8.0
Suriname 0.14 – – 20 – – – –2.3
Uruguay 0.38 37,966 91 13 8.5 3.9 4.2 11.3
Africa 0.24 – – 59 – – – 3.3
Côte d’Ivoire 0.21 5,468 67 51 26.0 3.5 2.4 6.4
Egypt 0.04 966 86 35 17.5 4.2 2.9 5.7
Guinea 0.12 32,661 87 85 22.4 5.0 4.4 5.9
Liberia 0.07 – – 69 – – – 7.1
Madagascar 0.17 23,819 99 75 30.6 1.3 1.5 0.3
Mali 0.43 9,718 97 82 46.9 3.7 3.3 9.3
Mozambique 0.17 12,989 89 81 34.3 5.7 4.8 13.5
Nigeria 0.27 2,375 54 35 31.7 2.6 2.9 1.3
Senegal 0.25 4,482 92 74 17.4 3.0 1.4 -8.2
Sierra Leone 0.11 33,698 89 63 44.2 -4.7 1.5 -0.9
Tanzania 0.12 2,842 89 81 45.7 2.9 3.7 1.6
Europe 0.40 – – 9 – – – 2.7 h
France 0.31 3,029 15 4 2.3 1.5 0.4 –1.5
Italy 0.14 2,903 59 6 2.6 1.2 1.3 0.9
Spain 0.36 2,398 62 8 3.5 1.9 –2.5 6.0
Australia 2.90 18,508 33 5 3.2 3.6 1.1 4.7
USA 0.65 9,259 42 2 1.7 2.9 2.0 2.1
World 0.23 8,338 69 46 4.8 2.4 1.2 1.7
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