Alcoholic Beverages — Processing by country
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 23 countries. The highest value is 784,500 t in France; the lowest is -300 t in Cyprus.
The median across all reporting countries is 47,600 t, and the mean is 113,288 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2,615.
Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 9 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 852.0%), and the largest decrease in Cyprus (down 110.3%).
Alcoholic Beverages — Processing: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 784,500 t | 2013 | down 25.3% | rising |
| 2 | Spain | 630,000 t | 2013 | down 3.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Italy | 412,500 t | 2013 | down 47.9% | volatile |
| 4 | South Africa | 139,323 t | 2013 | down 18.5% | volatile |
| 5 | Greece | 100,000 t | 2013 | up 38.9% | rising |
| 6 | Australia and New Zealand | 92,888 t | 2013 | up 6.0% | volatile |
| 7 | New Zealand | 78,445 t | 2013 | up 97.8% | volatile |
| 8 | Czechia | 62,210 t | 2013 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 9 | Mexico | 59,906 t | 2013 | down 48.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Germany | 50,000 t | 2013 | up 15.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Serbia and Montenegro | 50,000 t | 2005 | up 16.3% | rising |
| 12 | Slovakia | 47,600 t | 2013 | up 852.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Portugal | 46,000 t | 2013 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Algeria | 22,770 t | 2013 | up 15.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Australia | 14,443 t | 2013 | down 69.9% | volatile |
| 16 | Austria | 8,720 t | 2013 | up 83.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Morocco | 4,500 t | 2013 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 18 | Tunisia | 1,220 t | 2013 | up 1.7% | volatile |
| 19 | North Macedonia | 900 t | 2013 | down 83.2% | volatile |
| 20 | Hungary | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 20 | Chile | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 20 | Bulgaria | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Cyprus | -300 t | 2013 | down 110.3% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2.46 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries 900 t
- Europe 2.14 million t
- Asia -300 t
- Southern Europe 1.19 million t
- Western Europe 843,220 t
- Africa 167,813 t
- Southern Africa 139,323 t
- Eastern Europe 109,810 t
- Oceania 92,888 t
- Americas 59,906 t
- Central America 59,906 t
- Northern Africa 28,490 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries 5,720 t
- South America 0 t
- Western Asia -300 t
About this data
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 caput 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.