Brazil vs Japan: Rice production

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 10.67 million tonnes against 10.14 million tonnes in Japan, a difference of 529,500 tonnes.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.

Brazil ranks 11th and Japan ranks 12th of 142 countries.