Global Progress
Rice
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The 2024 adjusted volume of rice available for human consumption and the volume of industrially milled rice slightly increased from 2023. However, largely due to the Indian Government’s continued effort to fortify rice distributed through social protection programs, there was a 36% increase in the amount of fortified rice available. This increase of nearly 10 million tons of fortified rice results in an estimated 11.4% of the global industrially processed rice supply being fortified (unadjusted). When considering only countries with a good opportunity for rice fortification (adjusted), FFI estimates that 13.2% of industrially milled rice is fortified, up from 9.7% last year.
(a) FAO data with additional, openly available data sources.
2023 estimates: 2021 FAOSTAT, Supply Utilization Accounts, Food (element 5141) 2021 Data: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SCL
2024 estimates: 2022 FAOSTAT, Supply Utilization Accounts, Food (element 5141) 2022 Data: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SCL
(b) FFI calculations.
