Alcoholic Beverages — Processing by country
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply...
What the numbers show
Alcoholic Beverages — Processing is currently reported for 17 countries. The highest value is 837 1000 t in France; the lowest is 1 1000 t in Tunisia.
The median across all reporting countries is 47 1000 t, and the mean is 168.76 1000 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 837.
Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 7 fell. The largest increase was in South Africa (up 184.2%), and the largest decrease in Slovakia (down 56.5%).
Alcoholic Beverages — Processing: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 837 1000 t | 2023 | up 6.8% | falling |
| 2 | Spain | 641 1000 t | 2023 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 3 | Italy | 520 1000 t | 2023 | up 26.2% | rising |
| 4 | South Africa | 395 1000 t | 2023 | up 184.2% | rising |
| 5 | Mexico | 109 1000 t | 2023 | up 29.8% | rising |
| 6 | Czechia | 74 1000 t | 2023 | up 131.2% | rising |
| 7 | Australia and New Zealand | 68 1000 t | 2023 | down 42.4% | flat |
| 8 | New Zealand | 54 1000 t | 2023 | down 48.1% | falling |
| 9 | Portugal | 47 1000 t | 2023 | up 4.4% | flat |
| 10 | Greece | 42 1000 t | 2023 | down 52.3% | falling |
| 11 | Germany | 40 1000 t | 2023 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 12 | Australia | 14 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 13 | Slovakia | 10 1000 t | 2023 | down 56.5% | volatile |
| 14 | Morocco | 6 1000 t | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 14 | Austria | 6 1000 t | 2023 | down 33.3% | volatile |
| 16 | Algeria | 5 1000 t | 2023 | down 28.6% | rising |
| 17 | Tunisia | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2,802 1000 t
- European Union (27) 2,218 1000 t
- Europe 2,218 1000 t
- Southern Europe 1,250 1000 t
- Western Europe 884 1000 t
- Africa 407 1000 t
- Southern Africa 395 1000 t
- Americas 109 1000 t
- Central America 109 1000 t
- Eastern Europe 84 1000 t
- Oceania 68 1000 t
- Northern Africa 12 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 7 1000 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 0 1000 t
About this data
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.