Who drinks the most champagne?

A while back we wrote about the world’s biggest markets for champagne. At the time we did not have, as we noted, any numbers for who is actually the biggest champagne consuming nation. A helpful reader took out the calculator and looked up the population in Wikipedia and came up with the answer to “Who is the biggest champagne consuming nation?” (with reservations for some statistics that may not be super-accurate):

1. France, 2.7 bottle per person and year! Way ahead of everyone else.
2. Belgium: 1
3. Switzerland: 0.64
4. UK: 0.58
5. Singapore: 0.24
6. UAE (!): 0.23
7. Sweden (!): 0.22
8. The Netherlands: 0.21
9. Australia: 0.17
10. Italy: 0.15