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World wine production in 2010

Anneka

I would like to share the data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations) released in 2012, in thousands of tonnes.

  1. Italy: 4,580
  2. France: 4,541
  3. Spain: 3,610
  4. USA: 2,211
  5. China: 1,658
  6. Argentina: 1,625
  7. Australia: 1,134
  8. South Africa: 922
  9. Chile: 915
  10. Germany: 720
  11. Portugal: 587
  12. Russia: 500
  13. Brazil: 362
  14. Greece: 303
  1. Ukraine: 239
  2. Serbia: 238
  3. New Zealand: 190
  4. Austria: 177
  5. Hungary: 176
  6. Bulgaria: 145
  7. Romania: 125
  8. Macedonia: 111
  9. Switzerland: 103
  10. Moldova: 99
  11. Georgia: 97
  12. Japan: 91
  13. Peru: 73
  14. Uruguay: 71

Food and Wine World Sat, 04/06/2019 - 19:27

Reading the previous list, it is easy to see that the countries from the old Soviet Union put together would be one of the first wine producers in the world. We were curious about those countries and when we got some statistics, we thought to share. Mind, production statistics are not always reliable, but we think the table below helps to paint the image.

Black Sea and surrounding countries: Population and annual wine production per year.
Countries on the Black Sea

Population
(million)

Wine production
(million bottles)
Wine consumption
(bottles per capita)
Bulgaria (EU member 2007)
7.5
163
10.0
Romania (EU member 2007)
20.1
400
7.6
Ukraine
44.8
225
5.5
Georgia
4.7
200
14.0
Turkey
75.6
76
0.8
Russia
143.5
840
8.5
Neighboring the Black Sea

Population
(million)

Wine production
(million bottles)
Wine consumption
(bottles per capita)
Moldova
3.5
169
1.9
Greece (EU member 1981)
10.8
393
28.6
Slovenia (EU member 2004)
2
44
37.5
Macedonia
2
148
9.7
Croatia (EU member 2013)
4.3
100
35.2
Slovakia (EU member 2004)
5.4
24
 
First wine producer in the world

Population
(million)

Wine production
(million bottles)
Wine consumption
(bottles per capita)
France
65.7
5,929
46.6

Consumption per capita is so low in Turkey because taxes on wine are punishing and so it is very expensive to drink wine there - although other alcoholic beverages such as beer do not have such punitive taxation.

In Russia, vodka is the traditional drink, so wine consumption is low compared to the production.