Year over year, international purchases of wine accelerated by 17.8% from $35.1 billion during 2020.
The world’s biggest 5 wine importers are the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Japan. Collectively that cohort of buying countries bought almost half (47%) of all wine imported in 2021.
From a continental perspective, European countries bought the highest dollar worth of imported wine during 2021 valued at $18.8 billion or 54% of the global total. In second place were North American importers at 23.1% while 17.2% of worldwide wine imports were delivered to customers in Asia.
Smaller percentages were delivered to Latin America (2.4%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, Oceania (2.3%) led by Australia and New Zealand, and Africa (1.1%).
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for wine is 2204.
Top 15 Wine Importing Countries
Below are the 15 countries that imported the highest dollar value worth of wine during 2021. Within parenthesis is the percentage of worldwide imported wine.
- United States: US$5.9 billion (16.9% of total imported wine)
- United Kingdom: $4.4 billion (12.6%)
- Germany: $2.9 billion (8.4%)
- Canada: $2 billion (5.7%)
- China: $1.8 billion (5.2%)
- Japan: $1.6 billion (4.5%)
- Netherlands: $1.5 billion (4.2%)
- Switzerland: $1.2 billion (3.6%)
- Belgium: $1.13 billion (3.2%)
- Russia: $1.09 billion (3.1%)
- Hong Kong: $968.2 million (2.8%)
- France: $885.5 million (2.5%)
- Sweden: $810.7 million (2.3%)
- Denmark: $779.3 million (2.2%)
- Australia: $600.4 million (1.7%)
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing markets for wine from 2020 to 2021 were: Netherlands (up 10.9%), Denmark (up 6.4%), Sweden (up 4.8%) and Australia (up 2.7%).
Those countries that posted declines in their imported wine purchases were led by: China (down -25.3%), Hong Kong (down -13.9%), Japan (down -13.5%) and France (down -10.4%).
The listed 15 countries purchased 79.0% of all wine imported in 2021.
Wine Imports into America
America’s global purchases of imported wine totaled US$5.9 billion in 2021. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2020 to 2021.
- Italy: US$2 billion (down -1.7% from 2020)
- France: $1.8 billion (down -19.9%)
- New Zealand: $508.3 million (up 5.4%)
- Australia: $344.3 million (down -5.8%)
- Spain: $333.3 million (down -11.2%)
- Argentina: $267.4 million (down -6.1%)
- Chile: $246.2 million (down -5.3%)
- Portugal: $120.3 million (up 2.3%)
- Germany: $69.9 million (down -30.5%)
- South Africa: $54 million (up 9.5%)
- Canada: $39.8 million (down -6.2%)
- Israel: $29.3 million (down -7.9%)
- Austria: $21.9 million (down -7.4%)
- Greece: $10.4 million (down -32.5%)
- Georgia: $3.9 million (up 21.4%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 99.3% of wine imported by United States in 2021.
Among the above countries, the four suppliers of wine to United States posting gains from 2020 to 2021 were: Georgia (up 21.4%), South Africa (up 9.5%), New Zealand (up 5.4%) and Portugal (up 2.3%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their wine supplied to American importers included: Greece (down -32.5%), Germany (down -30.5%), France (down -19.9%) and Spain (down -11.2%).
Overall, the value of America’s imported wine dropped by an average -9.3% from all supplying countries since 2020 when wine purchased cost $6.5 billion.
Wine Imports into the United Kingdom
United Kingdom’s global purchases of imported wine totaled US$4.4 billion in 2021. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2020 to 2021.
- France: US$1.3 billion (down -8.6% from 2020)
- Italy: $809.5 million (down -9.4%)
- Australia: $359.7 million (up 16.4%)
- New Zealand: $358.8 million (up 13.1%)
- Spain: $335.8 million (up 7.3%)
- United States: $276.7 million (up 19.5%)
- Chile: $266.3 million (up 12.4%)
- Germany: $170 million (down -12.1%)
- Argentina: $137.7 million (up 8.3%)
- South Africa: $134.7 million (up 0.9%)
- Portugal: $91.8 million (up 7.9%)
- Hungary: $21 million (up 19.5%)
- Belgium: $19.6 million (down -26.8%)
- Netherlands: $14.6 million (down -5.9%)
- Denmark: $11.9 million (up 2.1%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 99% of wine imported by United Kingdom in 2021.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of wine to United Kingdom from 2020 to 2021 were: Hungary (up 19.5%), United States (also up 19.5%), Australia (up 16.4%) and New Zealand (up 13.1%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their wine supplied to UK importers included: Belgium (down -26.8%), Germany (down -12.1%), Italy (down -9.4%) and France (down -8.6%).
Overall, the value of United Kingdom’s imported wine fell by an average -0.6% from all supplying countries since 2020 when wine purchased cost $4.42 billion.
Wine Imports into Germany
Germany’s global purchases of imported wine totaled US$3 billion in 2021. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2020 to 2021.
- Italy: US$1.2 billion (up 4.9% from 2020)
- France: $782.4 million (down -6.3%)
- Spain: $407.3 million (down -1.9%)
- United States: $98.6 million (up 10.4%)
- South Africa: $93.3 million (down -2%)
- Austria: $76.7 million (up 7.8%)
- Australia: $63.3 million (up 1%)
- Chile: $59.5 million (down -11.4%)
- Portugal: $56.9 million (up 3.2%)
- New Zealand: $43.9 million (up 9.2%)
- Greece: $22.6 million (down -26.5%)
- Hungary: $19.7 million (up 2.4%)
- Argentina: $14.9 million (down -21.7%)
- North Macedonia: $13.3 million (down -7.1%)
- Romania: $6.2 million (up 6.7%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 99.1% of wine imported by Germany in 2021.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of wine to Germany from 2020 to 2021 were: United States (up 10.4%), New Zealand (up 9.2%), Austria (up 7.8%) and Romania (up 6.7%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their wine supplied to German importers included: Greece (down -26.5%), Argentina (down -21.7%), Chile (down -11.4%) and North Macedonia (down -7.1%).
Overall, the value of Germany’s imported wine decreased by an average -0.2% from all supplying countries since 2020 when wine purchased cost $2.95 billion.
Wine Imports into Canada
Canada’s global purchases of imported wine totaled US$2 billion in 2021. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2020 to 2021
- France: US$449.5 million (up 1.4% from 2020)
- United States: $423.9 million (up 8.1%)
- Italy: $412.6 million (down -1%)
- Australia: $156.5 million (down -7.1%)
- Spain: $124.9 million (up 1.4%)
- New Zealand: $95.7 million (down -0.6%)
- Chile: $93.1 million (up 0.01%)
- Argentina: $79.7 million (up 0.1%)
- Portugal: $57.7 million (up 5.4%)
- South Africa: $31 million (down -7.2%)
- Germany: $20.4 million (down -5.9%)
- Greece: $7.1 million (up 8.6%)
- Austria: $5.1 million (up 81.4%)
- Moldova: $2.97 million (up 2%)
- Hungary: $2.96 million (down -10.7%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 99.4% of wine imported by Canada in 2021.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of wine to Canada from 2020 to 2021 were: Austria (up 81.4%), Greece (up 8.6%), United States (up 8.1%) and Portugal (up 5.4%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their wine supplied to Canadian importers included: Hungary (down -10.7%), South Africa (down -7.2%), Australia (down -7.1%) and Germany (down -5.9%).
Overall, the value of Canada’s imported wine rose by an average 1.3% from all supplying countries since 2020 when wine purchased cost $1.9 billion.
Searchable List of Wine Importing Countries in 2021
The top 100 wine importers showcased in the automated database below accounted for 99.3% of spending on globally imported wine.
| Rank | Importer | Wine Imports (US$) | 2020-1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | United States | $7,375,681,000 | +25.5% |
| 2. | United Kingdom | $4,828,387,000 | +8.7% |
| 3. | Germany | $3,318,213,000 | +10% |
| 4. | Canada | $2,247,983,000 | +13.9% |
| 5. | Japan | $1,707,708,000 | +9% |
| 6. | Netherlands | $1,700,299,000 | +14.2% |
| 7. | China | $1,689,701,000 | -7.4% |
| 8. | Belgium | $1,508,765,000 | +33.5% |
| 9. | Switzerland | $1,475,932,000 | +19% |
| 10. | Hong Kong | $1,366,801,000 | +41.2% |
| 11. | Russia | $1,251,094,000 | +14.5% |
| 12. | France | $997,328,000 | +12% |
| 13. | Denmark | $990,062,000 | +23.9% |
| 14. | Sweden | $888,459,000 | +4.1% |
| 15. | Singapore | $853,808,000 | +57.9% |
| 16. | Australia | $728,231,000 | +21.3% |
| 17. | Norway | $567,354,000 | +11.7% |
| 18. | South Korea | $559,811,000 | +69.6% |
| 19. | Brazil | $476,568,000 | +13% |
| 20. | Italy | $474,488,000 | +44.2% |
| 21. | Poland | $423,478,000 | +15.2% |
| 22. | Ireland | $337,987,000 | -14.5% |
| 23. | Lithuania | $299,389,000 | +10.5% |
| 24. | Czech Republic | $295,265,000 | +9.4% |
| 25. | Spain | $284,373,000 | +46.8% |
| 26. | Mexico | $271,633,000 | +22.5% |
| 27. | Austria | $264,867,000 | +14.8% |
| 28. | Taiwan | $264,060,000 | +22.4% |
| 29. | Finland | $250,668,000 | +1.6% |
| 30. | Macao | $225,963,000 | +164.7% |
| 31. | Ukraine | $210,676,000 | +17.5% |
| 32. | Portugal | $198,415,000 | +4.4% |
| 33. | New Zealand | $182,929,000 | +26.1% |
| 34. | United Arab Emirates | $162,901,000 | +13.4% |
| 35. | Luxembourg | $149,443,000 | +19.5% |
| 36. | Latvia | $142,863,000 | -2.1% |
| 37. | Romania | $109,614,000 | +35.3% |
| 38. | Estonia | $89,780,000 | +19.3% |
| 39. | Slovakia | $85,504,000 | +4% |
| 40. | Belarus | $83,503,000 | +3.5% |
| 41. | Malaysia | $82,890,000 | +24.6% |
| 42. | Dominican Republic | $79,042,000 | +68.3% |
| 43. | Colombia | $77,839,000 | +11.8% |
| 44. | Israel | $77,777,000 | +49.4% |
| 45. | Vietnam | $64,383,000 | +289.4% |
| 46. | Greece | $63,630,000 | +91.5% |
| 47. | Ivory Coast | $63,067,000 | +72.1% |
| 48. | Thailand | $52,481,000 | +6.8% |
| 49. | Paraguay | $45,126,000 | +42.4% |
| 50. | South Africa | $43,632,000 | +72.9% |
| 51. | Peru | $42,276,000 | +24.8% |
| 52. | Panama | $42,030,000 | +41% |
| 53. | Croatia | $41,720,000 | +33.2% |
| 54. | Namibia | $41,711,000 | +3.5% |
| 55. | Serbia | $40,182,000 | +30.8% |
| 56. | Iceland | $37,965,000 | +22.1% |
| 57. | Cameroon | $37,437,000 | +51.6% |
| 58. | Bulgaria | $36,627,000 | +58.6% |
| 59. | Cyprus | $36,007,000 | +58.5% |
| 60. | Costa Rica | $35,126,000 | +33.2% |
| 61. | Kazakhstan | $34,883,000 | -2.8% |
| 62. | Angola | $33,728,000 | -12.7% |
| 63. | Ghana | $32,815,000 | +50.1% |
| 64. | Ecuador | $31,958,000 | +58.4% |
| 65. | Philippines | $30,681,000 | +31.8% |
| 66. | Hungary | $27,374,000 | +16.7% |
| 67. | Chile | $26,443,000 | +48.2% |
| 68. | Morocco | $25,766,000 | -7.2% |
| 69. | Turkey | $24,775,000 | +103.1% |
| 70. | India | $23,512,000 | +78.5% |
| 71. | Malta | $23,067,000 | +16.5% |
| 72. | Kenya | $21,513,000 | +22.3% |
| 73. | Guatemala | $20,795,000 | +60.5% |
| 74. | New Caledonia | $20,713,000 | -6.2% |
| 75. | Democr. Rep. Congo | $20,587,000 | +1301% |
| 76. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $20,215,000 | +28.1% |
| 77. | Cayman Islands | $19,799,000 | +60.1% |
| 78. | Albania | $17,150,000 | +70.6% |
| 79. | Venezuela | $17,000,000 | +33.5% |
| 80. | Bahamas | $16,438,000 | +107% |
| 81. | Slovenia | $16,256,000 | +15.4% |
| 82. | French Polynesia | $16,175,000 | +19.7% |
| 83. | Andorra | $16,029,000 | +25.1% |
| 84. | Bermuda | $15,899,000 | +22% |
| 85. | Uruguay | $15,823,000 | +40.1% |
| 86. | Maldives | $14,447,000 | +146.6% |
| 87. | Qatar | $13,668,000 | +99.1% |
| 88. | Gabon | $13,663,000 | +45.4% |
| 89. | Nigeria | $12,978,000 | -2% |
| 90. | Mongolia | $12,700,000 | +123.9% |
| 91. | Togo | $12,397,000 | +28.2% |
| 92. | Aruba | $11,585,000 | +65.9% |
| 93. | Mauritius | $11,396,000 | +18.5% |
| 94. | Botswana | $11,383,000 | +24.6% |
| 95. | Tanzania | $10,863,000 | +54.5% |
| 96. | Haiti | $10,632,000 | +27.2% |
| 97. | Curaçao | $10,218,000 | +130.4% |
| 98. | Mozambique | $10,059,000 | +40.4% |
| 99. | Algeria | $9,071,000 | +27.5% |
| 100. | Indonesia | $8,479,000 | +99.3% |
On a percentage basis, the fastest-growing importers among the top 100 wine markets are the Democratic Republic of the Congo (up 1,301% from 2020), Vietnam (up 289.4%), Macao (up 164.7%), Maldives (up 146.6%), Curaçao (up 130.4%), Mongolia (up 123.9%) then the Bahamas (up 107%).
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the above table’s columns. An entry of 0% in the right-most column means 2020 data was unavailable.
Related Read: US Imported Wine Ranked by Suppliers & Average Prices
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Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on July 18, 2022
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on July 18, 2022
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on July 18, 2022
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