Fermented Beverages Consumption by Country

In 2023, China had the largest listed food supply of fermented beverages among 152 reporters, at 3,631 thousand tonnes, while Burkina Faso had the highest per-capita figure at 64.29 kilograms per person per year. The 2023 listed total was 21,209 thousand tonnes, with Uganda second at 2,747 thousand tonnes and Tanzania third at 2,502 thousand tonnes. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values for individual years.

China leads the 2023 ranking at 3,631 thousand tonnes, 1.32 times Uganda at 2,747 thousand tonnes. Burkina Faso tops the per-capita ranking at 64.29 kilograms per person per year from 1,480 thousand tonnes, ahead of Cameroon at 61.94 kilograms.

Fermented Beverages Food Supply at a Glance

• China had the largest listed fermented beverages food supply in 2023 at 3,631 thousand tonnes.
• Uganda ranked second at 2,747 thousand tonnes, followed by Tanzania at 2,502 thousand tonnes.
• Burkina Faso had the highest per-capita food supply at 64.29 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 21,209 thousand tonnes across 152 reporters with reported values.
• Among 148 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed fermented beverages food supply increased by 2,431 thousand tonnes, or 12.9 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually drunk.

Key Takeaways

China remained far ahead of the other reporters in 2023, with Uganda and Tanzania forming a distant second tier. Cameroon and Burkina Faso followed the top three, while Burkina Faso stood out on a per-capita basis despite a smaller total supply. The gap between total and per-capita rankings shows how population size substantially changes the picture when fermented beverages food supply is viewed on an individual basis.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 152 reporters with data in both years eased by 159 thousand tonnes, or 0.7 percent. China, Canada, France and Ethiopia accounted for most of the largest increases, while Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Uganda and South Korea recorded notable declines. Since 2019, the common-reporter total has grown 12.9 percent, with Uganda contributing 40.0 percent of the net increase. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of fermented beverages actually drunk.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	China CN	3.63K	2.55
2	Uganda UG	2.75K	56.46
3	Tanzania TZ	2.5K	37.55
4	Cameroon CM	1.76K	61.94
5	Burkina Faso BF	1.48K	64.29
6	South Korea KR	1.26K	24.39
7	Nigeria NG	1.06K	4.66
8	Ethiopia ET	792	6.16
9	France FR	742	11.17
10	Angola AO	707	19.25
11	Rwanda RW	659	47.25
12	Kenya KE	578	10.44
13	DR Congo CD	545	5.15
14	Ghana GH	452	13.38
15	Zambia ZM	336	16.19
16	Malawi MW	323	15.28
17	Canada CA	260	6.62
18	United Kingdom GB	162	2.36
19	United States US	127	0.37
20	Zimbabwe ZW	125	7.63
21	Ivory Coast CI	92	2.95
22	Eswatini SZ	73	59
23	Mexico MX	73	0.56
24	Hungary HU	50	5.16
25	Philippines PH	41	0.36
26	South Africa ZA	34	0.54
27	Czech Republic CZ	32	2.92
28	Taiwan TW	32	1.37
29	Netherlands NL	31	1.71
30	Spain ES	30	0.63
31	Vietnam VN	30	0.3
32	Guinea-Bissau GW	29	13.62
33	Australia AU	27	1.01
34	Botswana BW	26	10.62
35	Mozambique MZ	22	0.66
36	Belarus BY	21	2.32
37	Gambia GM	18	6.59
38	Russia RU	18	0.12
39	India IN	17	0.01
40	Namibia NA	17	5.61
41	Romania RO	13	0.66
42	Latvia LV	12	6.6
43	Lesotho LS	12	5.06
44	Ukraine UA	12	0.33
45	Argentina AR	11	0.25
46	Hong Kong HK	11	1.44
47	Norway NO	11	2.01
48	Switzerland CH	11	1.28
49	Türkiye TR	11	0.13
50	Serbia RS	10	1.54
51	New Zealand NZ	9	1.67
52	Italy IT	8	0.13
53	Portugal PT	7	0.7
54	Sweden SE	7	0.66
55	Paraguay PY	6	0.94
56	Bulgaria BG	5	0.67
57	Lithuania LT	5	1.59
58	Thailand TH	5	0.07
59	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	4	1.18
60	Finland FI	4	0.79
61	Greece GR	4	0.41
62	Israel IL	4	0.39
63	Kazakhstan KZ	4	0.2
64	Lebanon LB	4	0.7
65	Macau MO	4	5.11
66	Pakistan PK	4	0.02
67	Slovenia SI	4	1.84
68	Armenia AM	3	1.11
69	Chile CL	2	0.1
70	Cyprus CY	2	1.65
71	Dominican Republic DO	2	0.16
72	Guyana GY	2	2.82
73	Kyrgyzstan KG	2	0.25
74	Malaysia MY	2	0.05
75	Moldova MD	2	0.66
76	Slovakia SK	2	0.34
77	Tunisia TN	2	0.12
78	Venezuela VE	2	0.06
79	Barbados BB	1	4.26
80	Belgium BE	1	0.07
81	Costa Rica CR	1	0.18
82	Denmark DK	1	0.18
83	Georgia GE	1	0.19
84	Germany DE	1	0.01
85	Grenada GD	1	5.53
86	Guatemala GT	1	0.08
87	Haiti HT	1	0.06
88	Honduras HN	1	0.13
89	Indonesia ID	1	0.01
90	Iran IR	1	0.01
91	Jamaica JM	1	0.23
92	Luxembourg LU	1	1.4
93	Malta MT	1	1.63
94	Montenegro ME	1	1.87
95	Myanmar MM	1	0.03
96	North Macedonia MK	1	0.31
97	Papua New Guinea PG	1	0.05
98	Poland PL	1	0.03
99	Uruguay UY	1	0.35
100	Vanuatu VU	1	2.08
101	Albania AL	0	0.01
102	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	5.19
103	Austria AT	0	0
104	Azerbaijan AZ	0	0.04
105	Bahamas BS	0	0.55
106	Bahrain BH	0	0.25
107	Belize BZ	0	0.34
108	Bhutan BT	0	0
109	Bolivia BO	0	0.03
110	Cambodia KH	0	0.02
111	Cape Verde CV	0	0.27
112	Colombia CO	0	0.01
113	Congo CG	0	0.04
114	Djibouti DJ	0	0.04
115	Ecuador EC	0	0.02
116	El Salvador SV	0	0.03
117	Fiji FJ	0	0.05
118	French Polynesia PF	0	0.46
119	Gabon GA	0	0
120	Iceland IS	0	1.08
121	Kiribati KI	0	0
122	Laos LA	0	0
123	Liberia LR	0	0.05
124	Libya LY	0	0
125	Maldives MV	0	0.03
126	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.01
127	Mauritania MR	0	0.01
128	Mauritius MU	0	0.05
129	Micronesia FM	0	0
130	Mongolia MN	0	0.06
131	Nauru NR	0	0.02
132	New Caledonia NC	0	0.09
133	Nicaragua NI	0	0
134	Oman OM	0	0
135	Panama PA	0	0.1
136	Qatar QA	0	0.01
137	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	0.79
138	Saint Lucia LC	0	2.12
139	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	0.81
140	Samoa WS	0	0.02
141	Sao Tome and Principe ST	0	0.04
142	Seychelles SC	0	0.97
143	Sierra Leone SL	0	0.04
144	Solomon Islands SB	0	0.2
145	Sri Lanka LK	0	0
146	Suriname SR	0	0.67
147	Tajikistan TJ	0	0
148	Timor-Leste TL	0	0.04
149	Tonga TO	0	0.01
150	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0	0.24
151	Tuvalu TV	0	0
152	United Arab Emirates AE	0	0

Fermented Beverages Consumption by Country in 2023

The 2023 table is led by China, whose listed food supply of fermented beverages reached 3,631 thousand tonnes. Uganda followed with 2,747 thousand tonnes and Tanzania with 2,502 thousand tonnes. Cameroon and Burkina Faso completed the top five at 1,757 and 1,480 thousand tonnes, respectively.

China holds 17.1 percent of the 21,209-thousand-tonne listed total. The top three reporters accounted for 41.9 percent of the listed total, while the top five represented 57.1 percent and the top ten 78.7 percent. Poland records just 1 thousand tonnes in 2023 against 230 thousand tonnes in 2019.

China Adds 342 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Edges Down 0.7 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 152 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply decreased from 21,368 thousand tonnes to 21,209 thousand tonnes, a decline of 159 thousand tonnes (0.7 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 152 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. China added 342 thousand tonnes (up 10.4 percent), Canada added 114 thousand tonnes (up 78.1 percent), France added 87 thousand tonnes (up 13.3 percent) and Ethiopia added 76 thousand tonnes (up 10.6 percent), while Tanzania fell 260 thousand tonnes (down 9.4 percent), Burkina Faso fell 194 thousand tonnes (down 11.6 percent), Uganda fell 158 thousand tonnes (down 5.4 percent) and South Korea fell 98 thousand tonnes (down 7.2 percent).

Uganda Adds 972 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Grows 12.9 Percent Since 2019

For the 148 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 18,778 thousand tonnes to 21,209 thousand tonnes, a gain of 2,431 thousand tonnes (12.9 percent). The 2019 total covers 150 reporters with reported values, compared with 152 in 2023. Cuba and Kuwait had reported zeros in 2019 but no 2023 value, while Mauritania, Qatar, Tuvalu and the United Arab Emirates had no 2019 value but reported zero in 2023. Uganda added 972 thousand tonnes (up 54.8 percent), China added 557 thousand tonnes (up 18.1 percent), Nigeria added 284 thousand tonnes (up 36.5 percent), Cameroon added 245 thousand tonnes (up 16.2 percent) and Rwanda added 118 thousand tonnes (up 21.8 percent), while Tanzania fell 298 thousand tonnes (down 10.6 percent), Poland fell 229 thousand tonnes (down 99.6 percent) and South Korea fell 119 thousand tonnes (down 8.6 percent).

Uganda contributes 40.0 percent of the five-year net increase, followed by China at 22.9 percent. Poland's fall from 230 to 1 thousand tonnes is the sharpest exit in the window. Per capita, Burkina Faso's 64.29 kilograms from 1,480 thousand tonnes lead Cameroon at 61.94 kilograms, while China, first by total, records 2.55 kilograms.

What Does the Fermented Beverages Food Supply Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the figure used here is the FAO item Beverages, Fermented 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 fermented beverages people actually drank. Wine, beer and 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	3.07K	2.16	3.26K	2.28	3.33K	2.34	3.29K	2.31	3.63K	2.55
2	Uganda	1.78K	41.28	2.38K	53.58	2.81K	61.22	2.91K	61.39	2.75K	56.46
3	Tanzania	2.8K	47.32	3.15K	51.58	3.21K	51.01	2.76K	42.68	2.5K	37.55
4	Cameroon	1.51K	59.27	1.41K	53.59	1.65K	61.36	1.78K	64.27	1.76K	61.94
5	Burkina Faso	1.48K	70.49	1.4K	65.22	1.67K	75.94	1.67K	74.35	1.48K	64.29
6	South Korea	1.38K	26.67	1.27K	24.42	1.32K	25.4	1.36K	26.26	1.26K	24.39
7	Nigeria	778	3.71	1.05K	4.93	1.07K	4.92	1.09K	4.9	1.06K	4.66
8	Ethiopia	777	6.71	840	7.07	807	6.61	716	5.71	792	6.16
9	France	651	9.91	572	8.68	653	9.89	655	9.89	742	11.17
10	Angola	595	18.38	682	20.39	706	20.46	752	21.12	707	19.25
11	Rwanda	541	42.33	582	44.53	611	45.78	642	47.04	659	47.25
12	Kenya	490	9.56	351	6.72	317	5.95	576	10.62	578	10.44
13	DR Congo	485	5.22	462	4.81	475	4.79	568	5.55	545	5.15
14	Ghana	361	11.56	373	11.68	317	9.75	403	12.17	452	13.38
15	Zambia	252	13.59	331	17.36	309	15.79	299	14.82	336	16.19
16	Malawi	222	11.66	292	14.94	308	15.37	317	15.4	323	15.28
17	Canada	271	7.18	132	3.45	171	4.45	146	3.76	260	6.62
18	United Kingdom	108	1.61	112	1.67	126	1.86	160	2.34	162	2.36
19	United States	38	0.11	79	0.23	92	0.27	150	0.44	127	0.37
20	Zimbabwe	99	6.5	132	8.52	140	8.86	122	7.56	125	7.63
21	Ivory Coast	97	3.46	98	3.38	94	3.18	106	3.47	92	2.95
22	Eswatini	63	53.66	69	57.48	70	58.12	70	57.3	73	59
23	Mexico	5	0.04	5	0.04	4	0.03	43	0.33	73	0.56
24	Hungary	38	3.93	36	3.67	37	3.77	58	5.97	50	5.16
25	Philippines	20	0.18	59	0.52	31	0.28	34	0.3	41	0.36
26	South Africa	24	0.4	57	0.94	45	0.73	20	0.32	34	0.54
27	Czech Republic	19	1.82	19	1.79	23	2.17	27	2.51	32	2.92
28	Taiwan	31	1.3	30	1.27	31	1.33	30	1.29	32	1.37
29	Netherlands	6	0.35	16	0.93	6	0.32	21	1.19	31	1.71
30	Spain	39	0.83	26	0.54	24	0.5	30	0.63	30	0.63
31	Vietnam	21	0.21	16	0.16	12	0.13	20	0.2	30	0.3
32	Guinea-Bissau	28	14.33	27	13.45	28	13.77	32	15.37	29	13.62
33	Australia	21	0.83	23	0.88	21	0.8	38	1.44	27	1.01
34	Botswana	36	15.65	21	8.73	33	13.86	26	10.62	26	10.62
35	Mozambique	16	0.53	15	0.49	21	0.67	30	0.92	22	0.66
36	Belarus	28	2.94	32	3.45	29	3.14	68	7.39	21	2.32
37	Gambia	21	8.43	20	7.75	17	6.56	16	5.96	18	6.59
38	Russia	57	0.39	44	0.3	43	0.3	27	0.18	18	0.12
39	India	16	0.01	16	0.01	16	0.01	16	0.01	17	0.01
40	Namibia	18	6.84	9	3.44	27	9.46	17	5.99	17	5.61
41	Romania	13	0.64	18	0.92	18	0.95	18	0.96	13	0.66
42	Latvia	18	9.35	14	7.54	12	6.16	9	4.62	12	6.6
43	Lesotho	14	6.41	8	3.53	11	5.01	13	5.8	12	5.06
44	Ukraine	8	0.18	23	0.51	11	0.24	10	0.25	12	0.33
45	Argentina	4	0.09	9	0.2	11	0.23	7	0.15	11	0.25
46	Hong Kong	8	1.11	13	1.71	12	1.66	12	1.57	11	1.44
47	Norway	8	1.43	9	1.67	10	1.89	10	1.85	11	2.01
48	Switzerland	15	1.74	17	1.93	13	1.52	12	1.37	11	1.28
49	Türkiye	8	0.09	10	0.12	12	0.14	10	0.12	11	0.13
50	Serbia	7	0.99	5	0.74	6	0.89	8	1.12	10	1.54
51	New Zealand	6	1.17	2	0.34	5	1.03	7	1.27	9	1.67
52	Italy	3	0.06	1	0.01	2	0.03	9	0.14	8	0.13
53	Portugal	5	0.47	4	0.35	4	0.37	4	0.42	7	0.7
54	Sweden	18	1.73	26	2.47	12	1.19	7	0.69	7	0.66
55	Paraguay	8	1.24	7	1.05	7	1	6	0.96	6	0.94
56	Bulgaria	2	0.25	1	0.12	1	0.14	1	0.21	5	0.67
57	Lithuania	0	0.01	2	0.8	1	0.51	6	2.04	5	1.59
58	Thailand	5	0.07	3	0.04	6	0.09	8	0.11	5	0.07
59	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	1.08	3	1.04	4	1.3	4	1.18	4	1.18
60	Finland	6	1.1	7	1.3	6	1.15	4	0.71	4	0.79
61	Greece	4	0.39	2	0.2	3	0.27	4	0.38	4	0.41
62	Israel	4	0.46	4	0.45	4	0.48	4	0.45	4	0.39
63	Kazakhstan	3	0.17	4	0.23	4	0.22	4	0.2	4	0.2
64	Lebanon	4	0.69	3	0.58	4	0.68	3	0.52	4	0.7
65	Macau	3	4.46	4	5.21	4	5.91	4	5.45	4	5.11
66	Pakistan	36	0.16	35	0.15	4	0.02	4	0.02	4	0.02
67	Slovenia	2	0.77	1	0.52	0	0.06	5	2.57	4	1.84
68	Armenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1.11
69	Chile	1	0.03	1	0.04	1	0.08	2	0.09	2	0.1
70	Cyprus	2	1.64	2	1.25	2	1.41	2	1.63	2	1.65
71	Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	2	0.16
72	Guyana	0	0	0	0	0	0.09	1	1.43	2	2.82
73	Kyrgyzstan	1	0.17	1	0.17	1	0.16	2	0.25	2	0.25
74	Malaysia	2	0.06	1	0.04	2	0.07	2	0.06	2	0.05
75	Moldova	2	0.77	1	0.37	1	0.35	2	0.88	2	0.66
76	Slovakia	0	0.08	1	0.23	3	0.58	1	0.24	2	0.34
77	Tunisia	1	0.11	2	0.13	1	0.11	1	0.1	2	0.12
78	Venezuela	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	2	0.08	2	0.06
79	Barbados	0	0.91	1	2.08	1	2.62	1	3.55	1	4.26
80	Belgium	7	0.58	18	1.56	3	0.23	32	2.76	1	0.07
81	Costa Rica	0	0.05	0	0.08	2	0.31	1	0.18	1	0.18
82	Denmark	0	0.08	0	0.06	1	0.1	1	0.16	1	0.18
83	Georgia	0	0.11	1	0.2	1	0.22	1	0.26	1	0.19
84	Germany	3	0.03	1	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	1	0.01
85	Grenada	0	0.26	0	0.28	0	3.36	1	5.09	1	5.53
86	Guatemala	1	0.08	1	0.06	1	0.06	1	0.07	1	0.08
87	Haiti	4	0.32	2	0.17	3	0.23	1	0.11	1	0.06
88	Honduras	1	0.14	1	0.12	2	0.16	1	0.12	1	0.13
89	Indonesia	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0.01
90	Iran	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.02	1	0.01	1	0.01
91	Jamaica	0	0	1	0.4	1	0.19	1	0.21	1	0.23
92	Luxembourg	1	0.92	1	1.06	1	1.47	1	1.07	1	1.4
93	Malta	1	2.1	1	1.57	1	1.65	1	2.06	1	1.63
94	Montenegro	1	1.15	1	0.85	1	1.63	1	1.95	1	1.87
95	Myanmar	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.03
96	North Macedonia	1	0.43	1	0.37	1	0.36	1	0.34	1	0.31
97	Papua New Guinea	1	0.07	0	0.02	1	0.06	0	0.03	1	0.05
98	Poland	230	6.01	13	0.33	1	0.03	2	0.04	1	0.03
99	Uruguay	1	0.28	1	0.28	1	0.35	1	0.37	1	0.35
100	Vanuatu	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	1	2.08
101	Albania	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01
102	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0.87	0	2.81	0	4.96	0	5.12	0	5.19
103	Austria	0	0.02	3	0.35	2	0.2	2	0.22	0	0
104	Azerbaijan	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.04
105	Bahamas	0	0.68	0	0.61	0	1.09	0	0.56	0	0.55
106	Bahrain	0	0.3	0	0.22	0	0.14	1	0.39	0	0.25
107	Belize	1	1.31	1	1.3	1	1.96	1	2.86	0	0.34
108	Bhutan	0	0	0	0.03	0	0	0	0.02	0	0
109	Bolivia	1	0.05	1	0.09	0	0.03	1	0.04	0	0.03
110	Cambodia	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02
111	Cape Verde	0	0.11	0	0.03	0	0.39	0	0.37	0	0.27
112	Colombia	0	0	2	0.03	3	0.06	4	0.08	0	0.01
113	Congo	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.04
114	Djibouti	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.04
115	Ecuador	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02
116	El Salvador	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.05	0	0.03
117	Fiji	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.05
118	French Polynesia	0	0.67	0	0.35	0	0.62	0	0.66	0	0.46
119	Gabon	0	0.11	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
120	Iceland	0	1.15	0	0.84	0	0.85	0	1.05	0	1.08
121	Kiribati	0	0	-	-	0	0.04	0	0	0	0
122	Laos	2	0.24	1	0.13	0	0.06	0	0.01	0	0
123	Liberia	1	0.17	2	0.3	2	0.39	1	0.1	0	0.05
124	Libya	0	0.07	0	0.06	0	0.03	0	0	0	0
125	Maldives	0	0.07	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.31	0	0.03
126	Marshall Islands	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.05	0	0.03	0	0.01
127	Mauritania	-	-	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
128	Mauritius	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	0.05
129	Micronesia	0	0.1	0	0.05	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
130	Mongolia	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.06	1	0.16	0	0.06
131	Nauru	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.12	0	0.05	0	0.02
132	New Caledonia	0	0.16	0	0.23	0	0.15	0	0.1	0	0.09
133	Nicaragua	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
134	Oman	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
135	Panama	0	0.1	1	0.17	0	0.11	1	0.13	0	0.1
136	Qatar	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.01
137	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0.74	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.79
138	Saint Lucia	1	4.81	1	4.17	1	5.56	2	9.1	0	2.12
139	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0.27	0	2.73	0	0.27	0	0.48	0	0.81
140	Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.02
141	Sao Tome and Principe	0	0.06	0	0.03	0	0.06	0	0.05	0	0.04
142	Seychelles	0	1.16	0	0.99	0	0	0	0	0	0.97
143	Sierra Leone	0	0.05	0	0.03	1	0.09	0	0.04	0	0.04
144	Solomon Islands	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.2
145	Sri Lanka	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
146	Suriname	0	0.14	0	0.05	0	0.08	0	0.4	0	0.67
147	Tajikistan	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
148	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.04
149	Tonga	0	0	0	0.06	0	0.07	0	0.01	0	0.01
150	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0.39	3	1.86	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.24
151	Tuvalu	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0.17	0	0
152	United Arab Emirates	-	-	1	0.14	3	0.29	0	0.01	0	0
153	Cuba	0	0.03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
154	Kuwait	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-

Fermented Beverages Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, China had the largest listed fermented beverages food supply among the 152 reporters with reported values, at 3,631 thousand tonnes. Uganda ranked second at 2,747 thousand tonnes, while Tanzania ranked third at 2,502 thousand tonnes. Burkina Faso had the highest per-capita fermented beverages food supply at 64.29 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of fermented beverages 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 Beverages, Fermented 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 154 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 21,209 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 152 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.