Africa: Malt demand forecast to keep growing with needs covered mostly by Western Europe maltsters

From a global perspective, Africa reporesents 7.74% of the brewing total, and within that overall volume the toop 10 countries represent 68.9% of the regions beer production, RMI Analytics said in their early September report.

It is the top 10 countries that lead the region�s optimistic forecast for future beer volume growth, the analysts said. For the period 2020-2027, including the Covid pandemic and subsequent recovery, the African region leads the world in total beer volume growth, wih a very slight advantage over South America.

The African continent is underweighted in terms of malting capacity at 2% as compared to beer production at nearly 8% globally. This leaves the region heavily dependent upon malt imports, which predominantly originate from Western Europe malting facilities, where the largest global presence of malting capacity exists. There is a surplus of malting capacity in Western Europe but much of it is not in prime export cities.

As Africa�s malt demand grows, it is expected Europe�s malt footprint will need to expand accordingly, the RMI analysts believe.

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