Global vineyard surface area shrunk in 2010 to 7.6 million hectares, loosing around 10,000ha. The “old world” is still very dominant although the “New World have increased in importance, gaining just over nine percentage points over the period. Here’s the split:
- Europe: 57%
- Asia: 22%
- Americas: 13%
- Africa: 5%
- Oceania: 2.7%
The world wide vineyard acreage has been steadily declining since 2003 when it peaked at almost 7.9M ha. The big “losers” are the traditional big, old world wine countries: Spain, France, and Italy.
The 12 leading countries are:
- Spain: 1082 Mha
- France: 825 kha
- Italy: 798 kha
- Turkey: 505 kha
- China: 490 kha
- USA: 404 kha
- Iran: 300 kha
- Portugal: 243 kha
- Argentina: 228 kha
- Romania: 204 kha
- Chile: 200 kha
- Australia: 170 kha
As you can see, “vineyard area” really means “grape growing acreage” since some of the countries grow a lot of grapes but make little wine.
(Source: OIV, vineyard statistics 2010)
