date:Nov 20, 2013
465.7 million in the prior year and 460.7 million in 2011-12. This would indicate annual gains of about 1%, a little behind the rate of world population increase.
The last year in which the Council had an estimate for flour production in China was 2008, when the countrys output was placed at 79,371,000 tonnes of wheat flour. In that same year, the United States, which ranks second to China in commercial flour production, turned out 18,883,000 tonnes of flour, or 422 million cwts. In 2011, the