Vietnam sees big jump in beer production
Vietnam has seen a large increase in beer production over the past decade, and among the 25 biggest beer producers worldwide in 2013.
According to a report named Global Beer Production by Country in 2013, conducted by Japanese firm Kirin Brewery, in 2003 Vietnam produced only 1.05 billion litres of beer, which placed it 27th in the world. However, the figure almost tripled to VND3.13 billion litres in 2013, ranking the 13th.
The report indicated that China produced 4.9％ more beer in 2013 than in 2012, and has remained the world’s largest beer producer for 12 consecutive years.
The other countries in the top 10 biggest beer producers in 2013 include the US, Brazil, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Japan, the UK, Poland and Spain. However, production in these countries is not on the rise.
In Asia, the volume of beer production in 2013 jumped 3.9％ from its previous year and has remained the largest beer-producing region in the world for five years in a row.
Vietnamese people spend around USD3 billion on beer annually, the most in Southeast Asia, and third in Asia, just behind China and Japan.
Over the past 10 years, beer consumption in Vietnam has increased by 200%. In 2012, Vietnamese people consumed 2.8 biillion litres of beer, and the figure climbed to over 3 billion litres in 2013. On average, a Vietnamese person drinks 32 litres of beer a year.
According to Nguyen Huy Quang, head of legal department of the Ministry of Health, an estimated 90% of Vietnamese men drink alcohol.