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Beer production in 2002 by country
The world biggest beer output in 2002 was registered in the USA with 240.89 million hl – 1.43% more than in 2001. The second place is held by China with 240 million hl – 5.73% more than in 2001. Germany comes to the third place with 107.7 million hl of beer.
Beer output in Ukraine increased 14.35% in 2002 against 2001. Ukraine produced about 14.98 million hl of beer in 2002. Some other initial, partly provisional figures are given in the table below:
in 1000 hl | 2001 | 2002 | % | USA | 237,488 | 240,888 | 1.43 | China | 227,000 | 235-240,000 | 5.73 | Germany | 107,815 | 107,714 | -0.09 | Japan | 71,080 | 68,600 | -3.49 | Mexico (Jan./Sept.) | 47,080 | 48,397 | 2.80 | France | 18,866 | 18,117 | -3.97 | Ukraine | 13,100 | 14,980 | 14.35 |
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