THE FIGURE OF THE WEEK. In 2021, theFrench people devote 1.8% of their consumer spending to the purchase of alcoholic beverages, compared to 5% in 1960.
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D’following the data d’Eurostatthe inhabitants of the European Union have consecrated 128 Billions of Euro’s To the consumption alcoholic beverages in 2021, following 124 billion in 2020 and 115 billion in 2019. This Rising represented 0,9 % of EU GDP et 1,8 % total expenses Household.
It is in Latvia (5 %)in Estonia (4,7 %) et Poland (3,7 %) that this share is the highest. It’s in Italy and Greece (1%), the Netherlands (1.3%) and Spain (1.4%) that she is the most weak. The French are in the European average. In 2021, they spent 22.7 billion euros on purchases of alcoholic beverages, i.e. 1.8% of their expenditure of consumption, a share who was 5% in 1960.
47 liters of wine in 2021
According an INSEE studythe weight of alcoholic beverages has dropped significantly in household beverage budgets over the past few decades, to the benefit of non-alcoholic beverages. He is passIt is of 78 % in 1960 to 60 % in 2018, eno reason mostly from fall of the consumption of ordinary wines. These latter represented 38.1% of the drinks budget of French households in 1960, but only 5.4% in 2018. Spending on the purchase of quality wines, on the other hand, doubled at the same time: they represented 6% of the household beverage budget in 1960, but 12% in 2018.
READ ALSOCancer: smokers and alcohol consumers minimize the risksIn total, the average consumption of wine in France has fallen from 100 liters per year and per inhabitant in 1960 to 47 liters in 2021, second only to Portugal (51.9 litres). With 25.2 million hectolitres, France remains Also the second country in the world where the most wine is consumed, behind the United States (33.1 million hectolitres) but ahead of Italy (24.2 million hectolitres).
