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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Sep 16, 2008
Surface area of lakes/waterways? But then NL would probably rank among the first...
QI - Ireland
HonestIago Posted Sep 16, 2008
Annual agricultural exports? With Thailand at first, doesn't it produce something like 40% of all the world's rice?
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 16, 2008
Er, I don't have the Irish per-capita rice production figures to hand 
, but I don't think they would seriously threaten Thailand in that list. (Vietnam would come second) Neither is it anything to do with lakes/rivers.
Thailand comes 56th in my list, with 3,400 of these per million people.
QI - Ireland
HonestIago Posted Sep 16, 2008
I was talking about agricultural products in general, not specifically rice. The reason I mentioned rice is because Thailand has a relatively large population (60 million or so), so it'd have to export shed-loads of something to bring up its X per million, which it does.
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 16, 2008
I'm not sure I believe you, but no, it's not agricultural production /export figures. 
QI - Ireland
Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Sep 16, 2008
No major rice production in Ireland? But it's full of Paddies!
, couldn't resist 
QI - Ireland
me[Andy]g Posted Sep 16, 2008
I was tempted to say peat bogs themselves, but surely Canada would come out on top of that list... although Finland and China would probably be quite high up too. It might depend on when the figures came out, as the number of peat bogs has been declining in Ireland recently, as far as I was aware, due to the changing climate (or so some scientists think).
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 16, 2008
Is Ireland that litigious a nation? No, it's not lawyers, nor is it peat bogs. Agriculture is the area to concentrate on here...
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 16, 2008
Oh, and you mentioned Finland and China:
Finland came 5th, with 37,100 of these per million people China came 90th, with 600 pm.
QI - Ireland
pedro Posted Sep 16, 2008
Tractors?
Farmers?
Pigs/chickens?
Lakes?
Tons of fertiliser?
Pine trees?
Fences?
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 16, 2008
Bad luck, Pedro, because Rod is quite correct, with tractors 
The country with the larget number of tractors per capita, isn't Russia, though, and I already awarded a klaxon for that guess.
So, which country is it?
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- 82: Malabarista - now with added pony (Sep 16, 2008)
- 83: HonestIago (Sep 16, 2008)
- 84: Icy North (Sep 16, 2008)
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- 87: Icy North (Sep 16, 2008)
- 88: Malabarista - now with added pony (Sep 16, 2008)
- 89: winternights (Sep 16, 2008)
- 90: me[Andy]g (Sep 16, 2008)
- 91: Icy North (Sep 16, 2008)
- 92: Icy North (Sep 16, 2008)
- 93: Rod (Sep 16, 2008)
- 94: pedro (Sep 16, 2008)
- 95: Rod (Sep 16, 2008)
- 96: pedro (Sep 16, 2008)
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- 98: Icy North (Sep 16, 2008)
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