The following is a list of the top 40 wine-producing countries and their volume of wine production for the year 2010 in metric tonnes, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which is an agency of the United Nations; this is the latest information available from them as of 2012.[1] Their data show a total worldwide production of 26,216,967 tonnes of wine with the top ten producing countries accounting for over 85% of that total.[2]
| Rank | Country (with link to wine article) |
Production (tonnes) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  France |
6,590,750 |
| 2 |  Italy |
4,673,400 |
| 3 |  Spain |
3,339,700 |
| 4 |  United States |
2,211,300 |
| 5 |  China |
1,657,500 |
| 6 |  Argentina |
1,547,300 |
| 7 |  Australia |
1,133,860 |
| 8 |  Chile |
1,046,000 |
| 9 |  South Africa |
965,500 |
| 10 |  Germany |
961,100 |
| 11 |  Russia |
696,260 |
| 12 |  Portugal |
694,612 |
| 13 |  Brazil |
345,000 |
| 14 |  Greece |
303,000 |
| 15 |  Austria |
281,476 |
| 16 |  Serbia |
224,431 |
| 17 |  New Zealand |
189,800 |
| 18 |  Hungary |
176,000 |
| 19 |  Ukraine |
168,410 |
| 20 |  Romania |
147,934 |
| 21 |  Moldova |
124,526 |
| 22 |  Bulgaria |
122,687 |
| 23 |  Switzerland |
101,800 |
| 24 |  Georgia |
97,000 |
| 25 |  Japan |
79,000 |
| 26 |  Peru |
72,700 |
| 27 |  Macedonia |
66,530 |
| 28 |  Uruguay |
65,000 |
| 29 |  Croatia |
48,875 |
| 30 |  Algeria |
47,500 |
| 31 |  Canada |
46,851 |
| 32 |  Czech Republic |
45,000 |
| 33 |  Morocco |
33,300 |
| 34 |  Slovakia |
31,388 |
| 35 |  Turkey |
27,950 |
| 36 |  Mexico |
27,609 |
| 37 |  Belarus |
27,320 |
| 38 |  Slovenia |
24,000 |
| 39 |  Tunisia |
23,200 |
| 40 |  Uzbekistan |
21,000 |
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ http://faostat.fao.org/site/636/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=636#ancor
- ^ "Wine production (tons)". Food and Agriculture Organization. p. 28. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ^ "Wine production (tons)". Food and Agriculture Organization. p. 28. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
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