Key figures of Champagne

Grape picking seasons ()
5 to 13 000 Kg/Hectare
90 000 Grape-pickers
1 Marc = 4 000 Kg => 25,5 thousand litres
1 entire vine for slightly more than 1 bottle ()
Figures are approximate only :
 
30 000 Families
Champagne
15 000 Winemakers ()
an their Cooperatives
100 Houses
and their 'Grandes Marques'
Surface
32 000 Ha
28 000 Ha
4 000 Ha
Staff
10 000
6 000
4 000
1 billion bottles currently ageing in storage (more than 3 years worth of sales)
Ventes 
300 million bottles
1/3 = 100 Mb
2/3 = 200 million bottles
4,3 billion €
1/4 = 1,1 billion €
3/4 = 3,2 billion €
- France = 58 %
170 million bottles
81 Mb
89 Mb
- Export = 42 %
130 million bottles
6 Mb
124 Mb = 1,7 billion €

More than 500.000 Tourists discover each year more than 200 km of Cellars and Crayères sheltering 1 billion bottles. ()
  
Detailed correct figures :

ECONOMY & STATISTICS ()