Ranked: The World’s Largest Beer Brewers

Key Takeaways

• AB InBev produced 26.4% of the world’s beer in 2024—more than the next three largest brewers combined.
• Europe was home to 21 of the world’s 40 largest brewers, more than any other region.
• Four Chinese brewers produced a combined 6.3 billion U.S. gallons, nearly matching Heineken’s global output.

Beer is the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage, but much of it comes from a relatively small group of companies.

This visualization ranks the world’s 40 largest beer brewers by production volume using data from the BarthHaas Report 2024/25.

Together, these brewers produced 42.7 billion U.S. gallons of beer in 2024, equal to 86.3% of global production.

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