Why the World’s Biggest Beer Drinker isn’t who you think

I saw this infographic last night and I was actually blown away by the figures and stats. I personally have never drunk beer or alcohol before and not to say that it's a bad thing anyways but there's something to say about this stats

Screenshot attributed to Visual Capitalist on X

Based on the stats, China drinks 40.5 billion liters of beer each year, that's 20% of all beer consumed worldwide

But Czechia is just a very tiny European country which I barely recognized on a map until last year, and they drink less than 1.6 billion liters total per year. However there's an interesting take home from this. The average person in Czechia drinks nearly five times as much beer as an average Chinese person each year. I ask myself how can that be?

I guess you divide the beer consumed by people and China has around 1.4 billion people, Czechia has about 10 million people, and the math makes sense, but it just doesn't seem to fit in with everything else.

I keep thinking about this for some strange reason with the entire culture thing and myself or maybe I'm thinking too much about something that is simply due to geography, traditions and climate.

I also think it's pretty silly how the world measures things, you would really think that global shares would make since to the average consumer, but the truth of the matter is that people are actually drinking the beer, but countries are only gaining the beer as a percentage of how many people reside in the respective countries.

If we were to pour 40 billion liters of beer into one place, what would it look like? That’s roughly the volume of 16,000 Olympic swimming pools. That is certainly a massive amount of beer consumption if you take it into account.