Of All the People in All the World

Of All the People in All the World, also known as the Rice Show, is an art installation and performance[1] by Stan's Cafe, which utilises 112 tonnes of dry rice[2] to represent the world's population, with one grain for each person (about 60 grains of rice—or people—per gram).

Individual piles of rice represent various statistics, such as "deaths in The Holocaust" or "the population of England".

[3] Topical events are also covered, such as a pile representing the people who lost jobs upon the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, which happened during the September 2008 exhibition.

Visitors, or people using the show's website, are invited to suggest new statistics for inclusion.

The installation was shown, in its full "All the World" configuration for only the second time,[1] in a disused factory belonging to AE Harris[1] in Birmingham, England: the home town[6] of Stan's Cafe.

A pile of rice with one grain for every person at the Aston Villa vs. Birmingham City football match on 20 April 2008, with teams on the pitch
Two 20kg bags of rice became the number of people displaced in Darfur .