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countries that import a lot of rice will be hit pretty hard by this - for example, China actually imports rice. yes, I was surprised by that as well. to the tune of over 5 million tons annually, that's 10 billion pounds of rice per year. and that's just one country - see the 2nd set of figures here to see how much Indian rice was imported into China in 2022.
the Philippines imports about half as much rice as China does. Iran, Iraq, and the UAE arent that far behind.
So a rough estimate of 1600 kcals per pound of rice, 10 billion pounds, assuming daily intake of 2000 kcals, that's roughly the yearly calories of about 22 million people (assuming I didn't fuck up somewhere). To put it in perspective.
i didnt go that far into the math, but one of the websites I was looking at said that the average Chinese consumes ~220lbs of rice a year, and that's like 45.4 million average people. presumably China will tap into their national rice reserve...
Not quite ;)
Citation needed.
5 million tons annually is 5 million tons per year, not 10 billion. "Annually" means per year.
How do you even get to a conversion factor of 2000?
Are you reading what @tallwookie wrote properly?
1 ton ≈ 2000 pounds, so 5 million tons would be ~10 billion pounds
Nope, full-on brainfart! Thank you for the correction :)
He said pounds, a ton is 2000 lbs