World’s grape production stable

The production of grapes was stable in 2009: 69 million tons were produced (for wine, juice, raisins etc). In a longer perspective the trend has been steadily increasing, albeit in later years stable. In 1995 production was only 55 Mt. The biggest producers were:

1 - Italy, 8.2 Mt (--)
2 - China, 7.2 Mt (++)
3 - USA, 6.4 Mt (++)
4 - France, 6.2 Mt (--)
5 - Spain, 5.5 Mt (--)
6 - Turkey, 3.9 Mt (--)
7 - Chile, 3.1 Mt (++)
8 - Iran, 2.9 Mt (++)
9 - Argentina, 2.1 Mt
10 - South Africa, 1.7 Mt
11 - India, 1.7 Mt
12 - Australia, 1.6 Mt (--)
13- Egypt, 1.6 Mt (++)
14 - Brazil, 1.5 Mt (++)
15 - Germany, 1.2 Mt

The by far biggest increase was in China that has double the production from 3.6 Mt in 2001 to 7.2 Mt in 2009. The biggest decrease was in France who in 2001 was in second place with 7.2 Mt and now is fourth with 6.2 Mt. Productivity has also increased steadily. In the early 90s average production was less than 7 ton per hectare, in 2009 (as in 2008) the production was 8.8 t/ha. (source: OIV)