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France

France Food and drink Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK
Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > All drinks 13.66 2005 15th out of 187
Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Beer 2.31 2005 63th out of 187
Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Homemade and illegal drinks 0.36 2005 157th out of 187
Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Legal sources 13.3 2005 5th out of 187
Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Other alcoholic drinks 0.17 2005 55th out of 187
Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Spirits 2.62 2005 43th out of 187
Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Wine 8.14 2005 2nd out of 187
Alcohol > Legal drinking age 18 2014 4th out of 25
Alcohol > Litres of pure alcohol drunk per year 11.43 2003 14th out of 178
Alcohol > Standard drink size 12 g 2008 6th out of 17
Beer consumed per capita 2.31 l 2014 3rd out of 9
Cheese consumption per capita per year 26.3 kg 2011 1st out of 20
Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet date June 30, 1972 2012
Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet location Creteil 2012
Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet notes First outlet in Creteil in 1972 even though McDonald's officially recognizes the first outlet in Strasbourg in 1979. See McDonald's France . 2012
Fast food outlets > KFC > Notes Opened in 1991, but all seven stores were closed by 1992. Returned in 2001, with 156 stores by 2013. 2014
Fast food outlets > KFC > Owner or major operator KFC France 2014
Fast food outlets > KFC > Year entered 2,001 2014 9th out of 22
Honey consumption 30,000 metric tons 2005 10th out of 29
Horse meat production 7,500 tonnes 2009 14th out of 15
Litres of wine drunk per litre of beer 3.52 2014 3rd out of 9
Milk consumption per capita 260.48 kg 2007 14th out of 99
Wine consumed per capita 8.14 l 2014 1st out of 9

SOURCES: Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff. ; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation. p. 273 ff. ; http://www.icap.org/Table/MinimumAgeLimitsWorldwide; World Health Organization. Source tables; Wikipedia: Standard drink (Standard drinks as defined by various countries) (ICAP Report 5 - "What is a 'standard drink'". URL: [1] . Accessed on June 19, 2008.); Wikipedia: Wine (Wine vs. beer consumption) (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/msbgsruprofiles.pdf); Wikipedia: Cheese (Total cheese consumption per capita per year) ("Total and Retail Cheese Consumption – Kilograms per Capita" . Canadian Dairy Information Centre . Retrieved 2013-05-20 ., , Cidilait, ''Le fromage'', Cheese Consumption Continues to Rise); Wikipedia: List of countries with McDonald's restaurants (Countries and territories with a McDonald's outlet); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Africa); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Asia); Wikipedia: Beekeeping (World honey production and consumption); http://www.farminguk.com/news/Argentina-Horse-Meat-world-production-figures._10249.html; Wikipedia: Wine (Wine vs. beer consumption); Wikipedia: List of countries by milk consumption per capita ("Countries by milk consumption per capita" . "Countries by consumptions per capita" .)

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France Culture > Food and drink Profiles (Subcategories)

Alcohol 10 Fast food outlets 3
Fast food 3

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