South Africans love their beer, but it might be news to some people that the country is the 12th biggest beer producer in the world. It's also by far the biggest in Africa. South Africa produced almost twice as much beer as Nigeria in 2022.

But South Africa pales in comparison with China, which produced 36-billion litres in 2022 – that's 20% of the world's beer.

More than 189-billion litres of the brew were produced globally last year. The top-12 beer-producing countries were responsible for two-thirds of that total.