Beer Consumption by Country

In 2023, China held 33,708 thousand tonnes of listed beer food supply, nearly a fifth of a 174,828-thousand-tonne total spread across 173 reporters. The year belonged to the fallers: Brazil, the United States, Mexico and Vietnam each dropped between 749 and 1,778 thousand tonnes. Botswana recorded the highest per-capita figure at 167.02 kilograms per person per year. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values for individual years.

China's 33,708 thousand tonnes look modest next to the per-capita table, which belongs to Botswana at 167.02 kilograms from 414 thousand tonnes, then the Czech Republic at 134.66. Germany, Poland and Spain appear on both lists; almost everyone else trades places completely.

Beer Food Supply at a Glance

• China had the largest listed beer food supply in 2023 at 33,708 thousand tonnes.
• The United States ranked second at 23,790 thousand tonnes, followed by Brazil at 14,815 thousand tonnes.
• Botswana had the highest per-capita food supply at 167.02 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 174,828 thousand tonnes across 173 reporters with reported values.
• Among 172 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed beer food supply decreased by 5,697 thousand tonnes, or 3.2 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually drunk.

Key Takeaways

Everyone lost last year except two reporters. Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Vietnam, Germany and the United Kingdom all fell by hundreds of thousands of tonnes, while only India and Russia added anything worth naming. The year before that looked the same: China, Vietnam, Brazil and the United States account for nearly all of the five-year decline.

Botswana breaks every scale in the table. Its 414 thousand tonnes sits 52nd by volume, yet divide by its population and it laps the Czech Republic at 167.02 kilograms against 134.66. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of beer actually drunk.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	China CN	33.71K	23.69
2	United States US	23.79K	69.26
3	Brazil BR	14.82K	70.17
4	Russia RU	8.58K	59.01
5	Mexico MX	8.33K	64.17
6	Germany DE	7.61K	89.96
7	Spain ES	4.14K	86.48
8	United Kingdom GB	3.83K	55.7
9	Poland PL	3.46K	89.22
10	South Africa ZA	3.35K	53.05
11	Vietnam VN	3.04K	30.31
12	India IN	2.91K	2.02
13	France FR	2.47K	37.21
14	Colombia CO	2.42K	46.28
15	Italy IT	2.21K	37.14
16	Thailand TH	2.01K	28.06
17	Canada CA	1.97K	50.18
18	Argentina AR	1.94K	42.56
19	Australia AU	1.87K	70.73
20	Nigeria NG	1.71K	7.52
21	South Korea KR	1.7K	32.83
22	Philippines PH	1.66K	14.48
23	Romania RO	1.51K	78.77
24	Peru PE	1.48K	43.65
25	Czech Republic CZ	1.46K	134.66
26	Cambodia KH	1.41K	80.68
27	Ukraine UA	1.34K	35.55
28	Ethiopia ET	1.27K	9.84
29	Chile CL	1.26K	64.02
30	Angola AO	1.19K	32.33
31	Türkiye TR	1.09K	12.51
32	Austria AT	944	103.41
33	Belgium BE	911	77.74
34	Taiwan TW	755	32.36
35	Netherlands NL	751	41.51
36	Ecuador EC	712	39.6
37	Kazakhstan KZ	659	32.42
38	Portugal PT	650	62.27
39	Hungary HU	648	66.86
40	Dominican Republic DO	574	50.68
41	Ireland IE	561	107.93
42	DR Congo CD	524	4.95
43	Tanzania TZ	520	7.81
44	Ivory Coast CI	502	16.12
45	Paraguay PY	492	71.83
46	Venezuela VE	487	17.2
47	Sweden SE	484	45.86
48	Bulgaria BG	470	69.12
49	Serbia RS	454	67.05
50	Switzerland CH	452	50.97
51	Kenya KE	431	7.79
52	Botswana BW	414	167.02
53	Slovakia SK	411	74.45
54	Belarus BY	408	44.73
55	Bolivia BO	404	32.98
56	Denmark DK	394	66.19
57	Greece GR	377	36.84
58	Mozambique MZ	374	11.12
59	Burkina Faso BF	371	16.1
60	Uganda UG	359	7.38
61	Congo CG	346	56
62	Finland FI	334	59.64
63	Indonesia ID	331	1.18
64	Zambia ZM	331	15.97
65	Croatia HR	325	83.4
66	Ghana GH	325	9.63
67	Norway NO	324	58.76
68	Lithuania LT	318	111.36
69	Guatemala GT	308	16.98
70	New Zealand NZ	304	58.75
71	Panama PA	303	68.02
72	Honduras HN	287	26.94
73	Uzbekistan UZ	268	7.53
74	Israel IL	253	27.36
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	231	72.43
76	Slovenia SI	198	93.59
77	Uruguay UY	198	58.32
78	Tunisia TN	193	15.85
79	Zimbabwe ZW	190	11.63
80	Gabon GA	183	73.54
81	Namibia NA	180	60.62
82	Nepal NP	177	5.98
83	Costa Rica CR	175	34.37
84	Myanmar MM	155	2.87
85	Rwanda RW	154	11.04
86	El Salvador SV	150	23.74
87	Hong Kong HK	149	19.97
88	Malaysia MY	147	4.18
89	Algeria DZ	145	3.15
90	Madagascar MG	140	4.49
91	Latvia LV	137	72.59
92	Mongolia MN	136	39.71
93	Georgia GE	123	32.44
94	Sri Lanka LK	121	5.27
95	Albania AL	114	40.38
96	Malawi MW	108	5.11
97	Moldova MD	100	38.86
98	Morocco MA	100	2.65
99	Estonia EE	96	70.12
100	Iran IR	90	0.99
101	Nicaragua NI	89	13.11
102	Egypt EG	86	0.75
103	Papua New Guinea PG	70	6.75
104	Kyrgyzstan KG	61	8.63
105	Laos LA	61	7.93
106	Iraq IQ	60	1.56
107	North Macedonia MK	59	32.22
108	Azerbaijan AZ	56	5.47
109	Trinidad and Tobago TT	56	37.24
110	Luxembourg LU	52	77.99
111	Montenegro ME	49	76.67
112	Lesotho LS	48	20.9
113	Mauritius MU	46	36.47
114	Bhutan BT	44	56.5
115	Guinea GN	44	3.09
116	Tajikistan TJ	40	3.83
117	Cyprus CY	39	29.14
118	Guyana GY	39	47.4
119	Lebanon LB	38	6.6
120	Eswatini SZ	34	28.02
121	Senegal SN	34	1.89
122	Armenia AM	33	11.38
123	Bahrain BH	28	17.79
124	Iceland IS	26	67.26
125	Malta MT	24	44.7
126	Jamaica JM	23	8.05
127	Haiti HT	22	1.87
128	Sierra Leone SL	19	2.29
129	Belize BZ	18	44.38
130	Jordan JO	18	1.54
131	Guinea-Bissau GW	17	7.67
132	Suriname SR	17	27.22
133	Bahamas BS	16	40.51
134	Liberia LR	16	2.96
135	Fiji FJ	15	16.38
136	French Polynesia PF	13	44.77
137	Macau MO	13	17.68
138	New Caledonia NC	13	44.64
139	Saint Lucia LC	13	72.9
140	Cape Verde CV	12	23.34
141	Niger NE	11	0.44
142	Oman OM	9	1.69
143	Qatar QA	9	3
144	Seychelles SC	9	74.01
145	Barbados BB	8	27.83
146	Pakistan PK	8	0.03
147	Samoa WS	8	37.43
148	Solomon Islands SB	7	8.27
149	Syria SY	6	0.27
150	Timor-Leste TL	5	3.85
151	Cameroon CM	4	0.15
152	Grenada GD	3	27.6
153	Maldives MV	3	5.68
154	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	3	33.07
155	Antigua and Barbuda AG	2	22.87
156	Kiribati KI	2	11.87
157	Sao Tome and Principe ST	2	9.74
158	Bangladesh BD	1	0
159	Comoros KM	1	0.96
160	Djibouti DJ	1	1.25
161	Marshall Islands MH	1	12.91
162	Micronesia FM	1	11.88
163	Tonga TO	1	11.4
164	Turkmenistan TM	1	0.19
165	Vanuatu VU	1	2.37
166	Afghanistan AF	0	0
167	Gambia GM	0	0.12
168	Libya LY	0	0.01
169	Mauritania MR	0	0
170	Nauru NR	0	9.83
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	6.75
172	Tuvalu TV	0	19.45
173	United Arab Emirates AE	0	0

Beer Consumption by Country in 2023

Read the 2023 table from the bottom up and Cameroon jumps out: 4 thousand tonnes where 604 stood in 2019, a 99.3 percent collapse that still leaves the country in the dataset. At the top, China's 33,708 thousand tonnes need the United States and Brazil combined to surpass it.

The middle holds steady hands, Russia at 8,582, Mexico at 8,325 and Germany at 7,606. Concentration reads 41.4 percent for the top three and 63.8 for the top ten, ordinary numbers for a table whose real story is who fell, not who leads.

Eight Reporters Down, Two Up: the Shape of Minus 2.8 Percent

Among the 173 reporters present in both 2022 and 2023, listed supply fell from 179,827 thousand tonnes to 174,828 thousand tonnes, a decline of 4,999 thousand tonnes (2.8 percent). Count the directions: six of the eight largest moves fall, Brazil down 1,778 thousand tonnes (10.7 percent), the United States down 1,013, Mexico down 795, Vietnam down 749, Germany down 330 and the United Kingdom down 317. Only India (up 387) and Russia (up 234) lean the other way.

Four Fallers Own the Whole Five-Year Drop

For the 172 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply fell from 180,525 thousand tonnes to 174,828 thousand tonnes, a decline of 5,697 thousand tonnes (3.2 percent). The 2019 total includes 174 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 173; Cuba and Kuwait, with a combined 72 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while the United Arab Emirates entered with a reported zero.

Four reporters own the drop: China down 2,140 thousand tonnes (6.0 percent), Vietnam down 1,496 (33.0 percent), Brazil down 1,246 (7.8 percent) and the United States down 1,010 (4.1 percent). Together they subtract 5,892 thousand tonnes, more than the net decline, with Russia's 839-thousand-tonne gain the only large offset. Cameroon's fall from 604 to 4 thousand tonnes reads 99.3 percent but moves almost nothing in absolute terms. Per capita, Botswana's 167.02 kilograms from 414 thousand tonnes lead the Czech Republic at 134.66 kilograms, while China, first by total, records 23.69 kilograms.

What Does the Beer Food Supply Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the figure used here is the FAO item Beer recorded under the Food element as available for human consumption. It represents food available for human consumption during the reference year rather than a direct estimate of the amount of beer people actually drank. Other alcoholic beverages recorded under separate items sit outside this figure.

The per-capita figure expresses the same food supply on a population basis, in kilograms per person per year. A country's total quantity and per-capita value therefore answer different questions: total quantity shows the size of the listed food supply, while the per-capita measure adjusts it for population.

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#	Country	2019 (1000 t)	2019 (kg/cap/yr)	2020 (1000 t)	2020 (kg/cap/yr)	2021 (1000 t)	2021 (kg/cap/yr)	2022 (1000 t)	2022 (kg/cap/yr)	2023 (1000 t)	2023 (kg/cap/yr)
1	China	35.85K	25.18	32.39K	22.71	34.06K	23.88	33.69K	23.64	33.71K	23.69
2	United States	24.8K	73.42	24.26K	71.48	24.63K	72.4	24.8K	72.62	23.79K	69.26
3	Brazil	16.06K	77.42	13.12K	62.89	16.73K	79.82	16.59K	78.9	14.82K	70.17
4	Russia	7.74K	52.84	8.09K	55.24	8.35K	57.24	8.35K	57.34	8.58K	59.01
5	Mexico	8.91K	70.86	8.67K	68.39	9.87K	77.29	9.12K	70.91	8.33K	64.17
6	Germany	7.18K	85.91	7.87K	94.14	7.62K	90.98	7.94K	94.38	7.61K	89.96
7	Spain	4.12K	86.81	3.41K	71.5	3.82K	79.92	4.1K	85.8	4.14K	86.48
8	United Kingdom	4.38K	65.22	3.82K	56.76	4.49K	66.41	4.14K	60.76	3.83K	55.7
9	Poland	3.69K	96.41	3.6K	94.27	3.51K	92.3	3.52K	91.65	3.46K	89.22
10	South Africa	3.36K	56.37	2.62K	43.27	3.12K	50.69	3.31K	53.11	3.35K	53.05
11	Vietnam	4.54K	46.7	3.94K	40.2	4.14K	41.83	3.79K	38.03	3.04K	30.31
12	India	2.37K	1.7	1.4K	1	2.18K	1.54	2.52K	1.77	2.91K	2.02
13	France	2.64K	40.2	2.61K	39.58	2.53K	38.26	2.67K	40.32	2.47K	37.21
14	Colombia	2.06K	41.17	2K	39.41	2.51K	48.97	2.4K	46.4	2.42K	46.28
15	Italy	1.94K	32.25	1.86K	31.1	2.07K	34.59	2.2K	36.85	2.21K	37.14
16	Thailand	1.98K	27.69	1.87K	26.16	1.87K	26.06	2.13K	29.62	2.01K	28.06
17	Canada	2.05K	54.33	2.2K	57.56	2.21K	57.44	2.02K	51.95	1.97K	50.18
18	Argentina	1.92K	42.78	1.75K	38.7	1.88K	41.56	1.94K	42.79	1.94K	42.56
19	Australia	1.85K	72.69	1.93K	74.99	2.04K	78.68	1.93K	73.47	1.87K	70.73
20	Nigeria	1.8K	8.58	1.87K	8.76	1.79K	8.17	1.81K	8.13	1.71K	7.52
21	South Korea	1.95K	37.66	2.07K	39.89	1.65K	31.82	1.82K	35.23	1.7K	32.83
22	Philippines	2.22K	20.04	1.35K	12.05	1.48K	13.07	1.63K	14.28	1.66K	14.48
23	Romania	1.75K	89.68	1.69K	86.97	1.68K	87.36	1.6K	83.49	1.51K	78.77
24	Peru	1.43K	43.92	1.32K	40.05	1.44K	43.36	1.52K	45.45	1.48K	43.65
25	Czech Republic	1.61K	152.86	1.5K	142.5	1.43K	135.69	1.47K	137.48	1.46K	134.66
26	Cambodia	1.23K	74.49	1.41K	84.57	1.41K	82.83	1.25K	72.78	1.41K	80.68
27	Ukraine	1.74K	38.76	1.73K	38.81	1.68K	37.83	1.27K	30.83	1.34K	35.55
28	Ethiopia	1.41K	12.18	1.06K	8.9	1.35K	11.04	1.16K	9.22	1.27K	9.84
29	Chile	1.05K	54.6	1.04K	53.84	1.2K	61.42	1.35K	69.26	1.26K	64.02
30	Angola	1.18K	36.56	986	29.48	1.13K	32.7	1.19K	33.35	1.19K	32.33
31	Türkiye	868	10.17	823	9.56	883	10.19	959	11.02	1.09K	12.51
32	Austria	953	107.35	926	103.76	953	106.22	953	105.1	944	103.41
33	Belgium	954	83.02	764	66.18	833	72.02	818	70.27	911	77.74
34	Taiwan	720	30.43	732	30.95	749	31.81	757	32.3	755	32.36
35	Netherlands	1.12K	63.57	825	46.8	844	47.61	851	47.51	751	41.51
36	Ecuador	651	37.56	631	35.96	655	37.02	708	39.75	712	39.6
37	Kazakhstan	676	35.2	671	34.43	662	33.52	757	37.78	659	32.42
38	Portugal	536	51.86	530	51.11	538	51.78	687	65.9	650	62.27
39	Hungary	685	70.13	641	65.73	666	68.62	683	70.54	648	66.86
40	Dominican Republic	557	51.16	525	47.68	634	56.98	631	56.19	574	50.68
41	Ireland	608	123.23	616	123.64	391	77.73	617	120.75	561	107.93
42	DR Congo	424	4.57	435	4.53	477	4.81	500	4.88	524	4.95
43	Tanzania	458	7.74	408	6.7	518	8.24	479	7.4	520	7.81
44	Ivory Coast	343	12.16	350	12.1	384	12.94	472	15.53	502	16.12
45	Paraguay	464	71.3	459	69.49	480	71.81	476	70.46	492	71.83
46	Venezuela	200	6.93	176	6.19	321	11.38	490	17.36	487	17.2
47	Sweden	498	48.43	486	46.94	483	46.39	482	45.92	484	45.86
48	Bulgaria	526	75.35	518	74.72	512	74.49	517	75.71	470	69.12
49	Serbia	453	65	437	63.26	454	66.43	465	68.45	454	67.05
50	Switzerland	468	54.55	448	51.84	438	50.3	467	53.06	452	50.97
51	Kenya	482	9.41	432	8.28	415	7.8	415	7.66	431	7.79
52	Botswana	315	134.86	262	110.8	326	135.85	394	161.35	414	167.02
53	Slovakia	391	71.81	409	75.05	398	73.05	438	80.1	411	74.45
54	Belarus	494	52.35	512	54.78	503	54.34	473	51.56	408	44.73
55	Bolivia	410	35.1	400	33.87	384	32.2	387	32.03	404	32.98
56	Denmark	353	60.75	352	60.36	343	58.62	375	63.5	394	66.19
57	Greece	395	36.82	300	28.03	346	32.74	366	35.15	377	36.84
58	Mozambique	370	12.38	396	12.88	379	11.96	419	12.83	374	11.12
59	Burkina Faso	141	6.72	192	8.95	239	10.84	246	10.94	371	16.1
60	Uganda	320	7.45	341	7.66	343	7.46	410	8.67	359	7.38
61	Congo	302	53.82	292	50.83	318	54	340	56.3	346	56
62	Finland	383	69.27	383	69.23	392	70.66	379	68.04	334	59.64
63	Indonesia	226	0.83	191	0.7	270	0.98	323	1.16	331	1.18
64	Zambia	350	18.9	368	19.32	277	14.15	271	13.46	331	15.97
65	Croatia	358	89.84	341	86.32	356	90.63	339	86.81	325	83.4
66	Ghana	289	9.24	272	8.54	319	9.81	317	9.56	325	9.63
67	Norway	262	49.03	271	50.46	309	57.11	287	52.52	324	58.76
68	Lithuania	221	79.03	213	76.04	284	101.58	274	97.12	318	111.36
69	Guatemala	270	15.81	329	18.97	295	16.79	343	19.23	308	16.98
70	New Zealand	321	64.44	312	61.55	316	61.8	329	64.2	304	58.75
71	Panama	330	77.85	256	59.73	341	78.47	343	77.87	303	68.02
72	Honduras	223	22.46	243	24.05	306	29.72	300	28.69	287	26.94
73	Uzbekistan	213	6.47	240	7.16	268	7.82	396	11.33	268	7.53
74	Israel	179	20.68	176	20.02	234	26.15	242	26.64	253	27.36
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina	238	71.1	234	71.04	243	75.04	242	75.66	231	72.43
76	Slovenia	174	83.56	157	74.49	164	77.37	176	83.39	198	93.59
77	Uruguay	132	38.89	136	40.1	140	41.22	150	44.24	198	58.32
78	Tunisia	131	11	177	14.75	195	16.22	203	16.72	193	15.85
79	Zimbabwe	230	15.06	221	14.23	223	14.11	222	13.83	190	11.63
80	Gabon	169	74.32	183	78.81	183	77.13	185	75.91	183	73.54
81	Namibia	122	46.05	162	59.29	93	33	157	54.27	180	60.62
82	Nepal	105	3.7	141	4.88	141	4.78	189	6.34	177	5.98
83	Costa Rica	57	11.38	186	36.98	184	36.31	178	35.09	175	34.37
84	Myanmar	183	3.47	140	2.65	151	2.82	145	2.7	155	2.87
85	Rwanda	221	17.28	221	16.94	222	16.61	157	11.5	154	11.04
86	El Salvador	105	16.81	104	16.65	119	18.96	162	25.75	150	23.74
87	Hong Kong	164	21.91	160	21.32	169	22.57	154	20.61	149	19.97
88	Malaysia	284	8.49	246	7.26	149	4.35	156	4.5	147	4.18
89	Algeria	172	3.98	135	3.07	177	3.96	144	3.16	145	3.15
90	Madagascar	167	5.92	160	5.52	144	4.86	136	4.46	140	4.49
91	Latvia	164	85.59	141	74.28	134	71.32	141	75.05	137	72.59
92	Mongolia	98	30.4	101	30.59	122	36.55	132	38.9	136	39.71
93	Georgia	107	28.22	109	28.77	105	27.7	130	34.18	123	32.44
94	Sri Lanka	151	6.73	121	5.36	112	4.92	115	5.03	121	5.27
95	Albania	95	32.89	84	29.11	81	28.34	109	38.52	114	40.38
96	Malawi	100	5.26	99	5.05	105	5.24	108	5.24	108	5.11
97	Moldova	115	44.21	115	44.6	120	47.61	104	41.08	100	38.86
98	Morocco	94	2.59	77	2.12	86	2.34	100	2.67	100	2.65
99	Estonia	89	66.89	89	67.28	95	71.44	92	68.07	96	70.12
100	Iran	70	0.81	42	0.48	100	1.13	90	1.01	90	0.99
101	Nicaragua	77	11.94	132	20.11	94	14.2	85	12.62	89	13.11
102	Egypt	114	1.06	85	0.77	86	0.78	88	0.78	86	0.75
103	Papua New Guinea	88	9.12	73	7.46	62	6.22	66	6.5	70	6.75
104	Kyrgyzstan	42	6.49	27	3.98	35	5.17	44	6.26	61	8.63
105	Laos	42	5.83	42	5.69	47	6.34	55	7.33	61	7.93
106	Iraq	52	1.48	60	1.66	62	1.67	79	2.1	60	1.56
107	North Macedonia	67	35.13	67	35.79	74	39.98	60	32.69	59	32.22
108	Azerbaijan	57	5.62	59	5.8	52	5.06	51	4.97	56	5.47
109	Trinidad and Tobago	67	44.91	63	42.75	63	42.3	53	35.14	56	37.24
110	Luxembourg	47	75.39	46	72.33	55	85.28	51	78.49	52	77.99
111	Montenegro	44	71.12	43	71.28	42	70.01	45	73.57	49	76.67
112	Lesotho	63	28.47	50	22.53	51	22.39	70	30.58	48	20.9
113	Mauritius	46	35.4	41	31.88	41	32.1	45	35.58	46	36.47
114	Bhutan	48	62.83	47	61.44	23	29.9	26	32.76	44	56.5
115	Guinea	31	2.37	38	2.83	41	2.95	34	2.41	44	3.09
116	Tajikistan	41	4.32	40	4.09	36	3.66	38	3.7	40	3.83
117	Cyprus	43	33.23	33	25.45	38	28.82	39	29.14	39	29.14
118	Guyana	31	37.92	26	32.8	36	44.05	39	46.86	39	47.4
119	Lebanon	37	6.43	26	4.53	40	6.99	39	6.77	38	6.6
120	Eswatini	46	38.62	32	26.98	39	32.36	36	29.26	34	28.02
121	Senegal	36	2.17	31	1.83	35	2.02	32	1.84	34	1.89
122	Armenia	30	10.25	28	9.86	34	11.75	33	11.29	33	11.38
123	Bahrain	26	17.33	25	16.66	23	15.58	27	17.77	28	17.79
124	Iceland	29	79.26	29	78.99	23	62.4	25	66.1	26	67.26
125	Malta	22	44.31	19	36.65	21	40.25	24	46.2	24	44.7
126	Jamaica	71	25.21	64	22.7	10	3.42	19	6.53	23	8.05
127	Haiti	2	0.19	23	2.02	24	2.15	24	2.09	22	1.87
128	Sierra Leone	40	5.14	27	3.47	28	3.52	20	2.41	19	2.29
129	Belize	19	48.1	18	44.78	19	47.32	17	41.84	18	44.38
130	Jordan	7	0.69	9	0.79	10	0.92	15	1.31	18	1.54
131	Guinea-Bissau	15	7.8	14	6.92	17	8.27	20	9.39	17	7.67
132	Suriname	26	42.37	25	41.22	25	40.57	23	36.56	17	27.22
133	Bahamas	3	8.26	3	6.99	5	11.58	17	42.16	16	40.51
134	Liberia	15	2.95	17	3.31	19	3.61	18	3.29	16	2.96
135	Fiji	21	22.84	19	20.64	15	16.01	15	16.19	15	16.38
136	French Polynesia	15	52.03	13	46.56	14	50.04	13	46.76	13	44.77
137	Macau	16	23.59	13	19.03	12	16.74	11	16.29	13	17.68
138	New Caledonia	13	45.99	13	44.98	13	44.5	13	44.81	13	44.64
139	Saint Lucia	8	46.96	10	57.97	8	47.35	9	52.64	13	72.9
140	Cape Verde	12	23.12	11	22.08	12	22.35	10	19.63	12	23.34
141	Niger	13	0.57	14	0.58	5	0.2	8	0.3	11	0.44
142	Oman	15	3.35	12	2.55	13	2.79	18	3.74	9	1.69
143	Qatar	11	3.87	9	3.16	12	4.43	17	5.87	9	3
144	Seychelles	9	76.89	8	66.09	8	63.32	6	50.2	9	74.01
145	Barbados	8	27.49	8	27	8	27.63	8	27.71	8	27.83
146	Pakistan	10	0.04	8	0.03	8	0.03	8	0.03	8	0.03
147	Samoa	8	37.65	4	18.54	6	27.79	4	18.84	8	37.43
148	Solomon Islands	7	9.89	7	9.18	7	8.53	7	8.33	7	8.27
149	Syria	10	0.49	9	0.41	7	0.35	6	0.26	6	0.27
150	Timor-Leste	1	0.82	1	0.8	1	0.97	6	4.09	5	3.85
151	Cameroon	604	23.69	5	0.19	10	0.38	2	0.06	4	0.15
152	Grenada	2	19.75	3	22.53	2	16.07	4	30.46	3	27.6
153	Maldives	3	5.37	1	2.22	3	6.14	3	5.92	3	5.68
154	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3	28.02	3	25.71	3	30.06	3	30.88	3	33.07
155	Antigua and Barbuda	2	24.04	3	32.66	2	21.66	2	25.85	2	22.87
156	Kiribati	0	3.62	1	8.24	2	12.75	1	5.87	2	11.87
157	Sao Tome and Principe	3	13.76	3	14.3	2	10.37	2	9.43	2	9.74
158	Bangladesh	4	0.02	3	0.02	3	0.02	1	0	1	0
159	Comoros	0	0.54	1	0.71	1	0.82	1	0.7	1	0.96
160	Djibouti	1	0.78	1	1.22	2	1.37	3	2.32	1	1.25
161	Marshall Islands	0	9.48	0	10.41	1	14.02	0	10.77	1	12.91
162	Micronesia	2	13.92	1	13.14	1	11.94	1	10.71	1	11.88
163	Tonga	1	7.55	1	10.36	1	10.44	1	12.21	1	11.4
164	Turkmenistan	3	0.41	3	0.41	3	0.48	2	0.22	1	0.19
165	Vanuatu	0	0.61	0	0.56	0	0.68	0	0.96	1	2.37
166	Afghanistan	1	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
167	Gambia	3	1.12	3	1.12	0	0.03	0	0.17	0	0.12
168	Libya	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
169	Mauritania	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
170	Nauru	0	0.09	-	-	0	0	0	0.85	0	9.83
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	9.83	1	21.48	1	15.71	1	13.02	0	6.75
172	Tuvalu	0	9.52	0	12.25	0	14.13	0	11.87	0	19.45
173	United Arab Emirates	-	-	31	3.3	34	3.44	0	0	0	0
174	Cuba	72	6.43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
175	Kuwait	0	0.05	0	0.04	0	0	-	-	-	-

Beer Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, China had the largest listed beer food supply among the 173 reporters with reported values, at 33,708 thousand tonnes. The United States ranked second at 23,790 thousand tonnes, while Brazil ranked third at 14,815 thousand tonnes. Botswana had the highest per-capita beer food supply at 167.02 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of beer actually drunk.

Methodology

Percentage changes use the corresponding value in the earlier year as the base. Yearly totals use FAO Food Balances food quantity (Element 5142, thousand tonnes), while the per-capita figures use food supply quantity (Element 645, kg/capita/year) for Beer from 2019 through 2023. The Food element represents the quantity available for human consumption during the reference period. It is not a direct measure of the amount actually drunk, as additional losses or waste may occur after food reaches the consumer. No percentage change is shown where the base-year value is zero.

The reporter universe for this item contains 175 reporters. The tables list reporters only; aggregate rows such as World, regions and China (aggregate) are excluded, while China figures refer to the China reporter. For year-to-year comparisons, only reporters with values in both endpoint years are included in the arithmetic. A zero indicates a displayed value of zero, while an empty cell indicates that no value is available for that reporter and year.

Quantities of 1,000 thousand tonnes and above are shown as whole numbers; smaller quantities retain up to two decimals. FAO Food Balances primarily use official national statistics, with some data also estimated or imputed where applicable. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The 2023 listed total of 174,828 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 173 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.