BBC_ ArtHouse Jersey will host the installation, called Of All the People in All the World, at Capital House from Wednesday.

Stan’s Cafe, a theatre company based in Birmingham, is behind the installation, which was first staged in 2003.

ArtHouse Jersey's head of programme James Tyson, said the show would make people "see the world in a startlingly different way".

The installation will see performers use rice to represent different human statistics, such as the populations of towns and cities, the number of people who are born or die each day and the number of deaths in the Holocaust.

Each grain of rice represents one person.

Mr Tyson said the exhibition, which runs until 6 October, would "remind us both of the fragility and precariousness of the world we live in, as well as those humble truths that connect us all as humans".

He added: "I'm intrigued both by what Stan's Cafe will reveal to us, as well as how our audiences inform the ever-changing experience of the exhibition."